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Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets
Makarand writes "Thanks to the availability of low cost high quality inkjet printers, crooks
are now able to
produce currency indistinguishable from the real
banknotes, at least under dim lighting conditions like that in a bar or a nightclub.
The term "digifeiters" is being coined for counterfeiters that use
cheap high-resolution printers to produce fake currency. Unlike costly color xerographic copiers that come inbuilt with features
to detect security details on banknotes and stop currency copying, no cheap printers
come with such feature. An anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating currencies of several countries." I wonder what GimpPrint would think of being forced to print or not print certain documents based on their contents.
Was when they visited the photocopy place and tried to copy dollars, then tried to pay the copy guy with their printed money. Ahh, I miss that show.
Try counterfeiting those.
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I'm surprised they can turn a profit, what with having to spend $80 to replace jammed ink cartridges every three minutes.
And from the Treasury: Currency FAQ From PBS: Anatomy of a Bill: The Currency Paper.
print it on glossy photo paper, not on cheapo recycled office paper.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
They were xeroxing nickels.
The spent 25 cents for each xeroxed nickel.
After they got a bunch, they raggedly tore the extra paper from around their fake paper "nickels" and tried to buy candy from the clerk.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"Go for plastic bank notes like australia. They work well... They even have clear patches you can see right through."
This is a great idea that has future flexibility. As the Ozbuck becomes worth less and less, and it costs more and more to make them due to usual inflationary issues, they can just make the holes larger and larger to save money (sort of like with the economics of swiss cheese).
Eventually, sometime around 2030 or so, the bills will resemble rectagular rings.
NZ bills have see-through embossed plastic windows and last time I checked my Lexmark I didn't see a cartridge that would replace paper with clear embossed plastic. Maybe the US should just make the face bigger. Yeah...that should do it.
You're getting mixed up with credit cards. And stop hole-punching them.
1) Bleach 20 dollar bill.
2) Make $5 disappear.
2) ???
3) Profit $75!
Yeah, yeah... I know where you were going with it. =P
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"A few months ago I got a bogus $20 from an automatic teller machine."
That wasn't an ATM. It was just a booth containing an inkjet printer. It was set to print out whatever you ordered.
Yeah, it's called Palladium/TCPA.(More Tinfoil hat time)
Guide to be a money lauderer:
Step 1: Print bills with inkjet.
Step 2: Put them inside washing machines to give them that old feel.
Step 3: Profit!
I am pretty sure you are going to have to think up a different step 2 for those inkjet printed bills.
It's also the smallest coin. Worked wonders with my little sister when I was a kid. I'd trade her my larger nickels for her small little dimes. Worked wonders!
Well, since US currency is basically linen, maybe this might work? They say it removes almost every stain using the air we breath!
To help assist counterfitters, the Australian Governmebt has equipped this page with pictures of all their currency with a printer friendly version
Nice to see the government goes that extra step to help out the cheaters and counterfitters.
No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.
You didn't really get the bit about the plastic see-thru bits in the notes, did you?
The best bit is because Australia produces "polymer notes for Papua New Guinea,. html
;-)
Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, Singapore, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Thailand."
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency
If one of those countries pisses Australia off, they can mass produce the country's
currency, and drop it from aircraft. Making their economy tank in short order
Oh shit, I think I just revealed Australia's plans for World Denomination[tm].
http://jesus.everdense.com/
how many checkout chicks carefully look over every note?)
Nice of you to bring that up... I just got back from the grocery store and let me tell you, I would have banged the crap out of that cute blonde behind the cash register. Unfortunately she probably has a wife-beater undershirt wearing boyfriend that pumps gas for a living, so that chance will never be mine.
Based on the cover, the book could be titled: "Goatse - the Novel"
"That's because $100 Canadian isn't enough money to buy a candy bar"
That is how the Americans were able to lure away J.S. Guigere and Wayne Gretsky for about $180 each. It amounted to $13,000,000 Canadian at the time.
At least the ink off my bubblejet thing does. Renders it useless for printing meeting minutes and agendas because we nearly always have at least a glass of water each and the printouts get used as coasters. That lovely wet washed out watercolour effect. So you wouldn't need a special pen to test, just a water sprayer or a wet finger.
I wonder if you could make fake aussie notes using transperancy film. Someone did get into trouble once for trying to pass off a friend's copy of a note out of pencil and paper as money. That was when we still had paper $2. I think the person who made the copy, even though it was only one sided, got into as much trouble as the idiot who tried to spend it. Not entirely rational law enforcement.
-- it must be true, it's on the internet.
I'll bet my overhead projector sheet could look like real Austrailian money in a crowded bar. Especially if I pay a high-class hooker to flash her tits at the guy when I'm paying for drinks. I'll pay her with the fake cash too!
"Worked wonders with my little sister when I was a kid. I'd trade her my larger nickels for her small little dimes."
So she doesn't actually have to pay the money? When I worked in fast food, if our till was short by $1 or more, we had to pay the difference or have it take out of our paycheque.
Most of the time we would count our own register but at closing time, the manager would do it. Considering some of the managers who would count the money were mathematically challenged, I found that two or three recounts were usually a good idea.
If you were given a $50 or $100 bill, you had to get a manager to approve it (we stopped taking $100 bills after $10 and $20 counterfit bills were circulating). If you were given a $200 bill, I believe you were allowed to punch the customer in the head. If you accepted the $200 bill, I believe the manager was allowed to punch you in the head and then take it out of your paycheque.
Evidently neither did the Aussie gov't webmaster either cuz now the page is 404.
cat
"If you're a counterfeiter and you can't fool an iodine pen, you should consider going into another line of crime."
I would recommned congressman.
I was in the video rental today, and all I had was a USD 100 note to rent a single game (FF Origins FWIW-- pretty good, though the FF2 is not the FF2 I remember). The clerk held it up to light to check watermark and thread....
then took the pen to it.
Sigh.
It's just like a fascist dictatorship, without the punctual rail service!
The reason we still have paper $1 currency is that we have resisted people telling us that a heavy pocket full of coins is " much better to use " than paper money. The government has tried to tell us that, but we know they always lie, and experience with several dollar coins over recent years has born that out.
I always thought it was because the powerful stripper lobby didn't like being pelted with dollar coins.
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That would be horrible. If the economy of a major power like Papua New Guinea were to falter, think of devastation it would cause on the world markets. I'm terrified to think about it.
-B
If I had a 1 euro note I would sell it to the highest bidder.
This is mainly because the smallest bills we have are 5 euros.
beauty is only a light switch away
Is there really that much of a market for those who need to buy a diary without getting out of the car?
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Oh I don't disagree really :) The US money system is a fossil from 40 years ago. In 20 years though, hard currency will probably be gone. We already have the technology, we just have to wait for society (and with an increased reliance on credit and debit cards, society is catching up quickly.) Then we can tell our grandkids, "When I was your age, we had this thing called money. And it was heavy! Man I had to carry 4 rolls of quarters uphill in the snow each way! You kids have it easy!"