Mysterious $100 'supernote' counterfeit bills appear across world »
Posted By monte-g 1 year, 5 months ago in Business & FinanceThe 2003 series U.S. $100 bill was a fake, but not just any fake. It was a "supernote," a counterfeit so perfect it's an international whodunit.
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doppich1 year, 5 months ago
Apparently debasing the dollar is not solely the province of the Fed and the Bush administration.
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NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago
These counterfeiters are not very intelligent!!
Why would anyone print a tanking monetary unit of currency?
The Fed prints enough funny money and they probably printed these secretly for Washington's graft and corruption. Our politicos get the real stuff from our lobbyist and Corporate powers that are.
Cynical, you bet.
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Dionys1 year, 5 months ago
Oh please. There are any number of countries (China, Britain, Japan, India, et cetera) who have access to the technology and could easily put together a plant to make the "special" paper.
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eugenegerard1 year, 5 months ago
It is not common knowledge. I have read that the Federal Reserve ( A group of international bankers that call the shots of the US government)is printing US dollars in South Korea because printing costs are less.
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joeblowe1 year, 5 months ago
Claiming the few millions they have -so far- captured doesn't pay for the operation of the presses is disingenuous. Right there in the article it is made pretty clear that these are HARD to spot. It seems there could be a LOT more of this in circulation than they know about. It might also be something in the nature of a "trial balloon" to see which of their techniques is really the best.
You've got to wonder how someone can maintain the ability to print what amounts to real currency - and keep it a secret.
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doppich1 year, 5 months ago
Right on. That they have found so few is more likely due to the low detectability than to a scarcity of the fakes.
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SpazMat1 year, 5 months ago
There could be other factors involved, like serial numbers on the fake bills, that allows them to get a feel for the number printed in each batch.
Notice: "could be".
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CaptainLucid1 year, 5 months ago
"You've got to wonder how someone can maintain the ability to print what amounts to real currency - and keep it a secret."
It all depends on who wants to keep it a secret. We still do not have flowmeters to measure how much oil we pump out of Iraq and we won't for a long time because there is no one involved who wants the truth to be known. Same thing with currency. Most of the people who know what is happening have their hand in the cookie jar and don't want it to be known.
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kneechay1 year, 5 months ago
The CIA is something else man. Someone over there knew what was going to happen on 9/11, they're linked to Pakistan's ISI who bankrolled the attacks. Now this weird perfect counterfit, what's next I wonder? We have no idea what they do,for all we know they were involved in the Kennedy assasinations! I just don't trust them at all.
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
It's the CIA. 9-11! How about a few of the workers in the mint creating their own retirement programs. They're saying around $ 2M per year. Very small scale. Because of the perfect copies, that tells me the leak is inside. Time to fully audit the mints. Check what comes is, what goes out and how much product is wasted. We're talking 20,000 $100.00 bills. At 100 bills a page, we're only talking about 200 pages of money. Make one page disappear every night or so and you've got the estimated $ 2M.
As to the CIA, they have an unlimited budget so I don't think they'd bother printing US currency. They'd copy the Euro or some other country's money.
As to international sources, North Korea might have the will I don't think they have to tools. Russia, China or Iran have tried before. However, $2M/year seems too small for the KGB/FSS, Chinese Army or Iran to waste the time. To do what they say would require huge cash investments for such a little payout. This sounds like an inside job.
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SpazMat1 year, 5 months ago
I don't know.
FTA, there have been changes to keep up with our system.
But they can still tell the difference. If it was guys at the treasury just pumping out a few extra every night, there would be NO difference between the "fakes" and the "real", it would just be who they came through.
So it's pretty convincing that it is coming from another source.
Oh, and the CIA does nothave an unlimited budget.
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CaptainLucid1 year, 5 months ago
If the CIA had an unlimited budget they would not have had to get involved in the Iran/Contra scandal. That sentence makes no sense anyway. If they had an unlimited budget why would they copy Euros period. If they were caught printing Euros there would be serious hell to answer for to the EU. If they keep it to dollars we can keep any investigation in house.
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