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rrwood writes "This is an intriguing insight into the activities of a master Canadian counterfeiter. The subject of the article, Wesley Weber, is/was a distinguished hacker and cracker who used a combination of technological skills and social engineering to produce what is probably the highest-quality counterfeit currency ever detected in Canada. Even more interesting to note is the widescale effect this one guy had, since he and his confederates single-handedly managed to force businesses to stop accepting $100CDN bills, thus affecting literally millions of people. The story is a fascinating look at his brief career, and the dumb, shortsighted mistakes ultimately responsible for his downfall."
It's Canadian money. That doesn't count.
(It's a joke! Posting anon since I'll be modded down to hell.)
"All that Canadian money looks phony to me!"
"Even more interesting to note is the widescale effect this one guy had, since he and his confederates single-handedly managed to force businesses to stop accepting $100CDN bills, thus affecting literally millions of people."
One man can make a difference.
What is that like 84 cents US?
Anyone care to summarise?
sure. i'll give it a shot...
1) buy good counterfeiting equipment
2) ???
3) profit!
Work hard and you can 'make' lots of money.
And now how in the world do we buy anything in Canada without $100 dollar bills?
This is interesting; I wonder (purely out of curiosity I assure you) which nation's currency is the easiest to counterfeit (that is, requires the least effort). If one could make a list of the easiest currencies to forge and then print billions of those monies well, regardless of the exchange rates, that must be worth some american dollars. Make sure that the american dollars you get back are more than what you put into the counterfeiting machinery and materials in the first place and you've got a bone fide business! Capitalism rules!
Or, if you happen to have a pining for Mongolia, print out those Togrogs like nothing else and live like a khan in the beautiful ancestral home of the Khan!
Khaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!
Not really. Have you checked the price of ink cartridges lately?
So how long before we see Canadian dollars running BSD? Will a beowulf cluster make my money work for me?
This guy is clearly a loonie.
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I hear tell they're going to ban P2P money sharing.
KFG
"we've had new $100, $10 and $5 bills for ages now."
think about that.
"All that Canadian money looks phony to me!"
That's OK. So do all your politicians.
what, /. editors believe counterfeiting is a constitutional right or something?
Some idiot actually accepted a $200 bill with GW Bush on the front. Its hard to beat that. Here is the link to that article.
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good thing it's not a child porn story
i prefer cash rather than gifts from my relatives on birthdays/ christmas
you have a good reason to prefer gifts i think
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The US Federal Reserve bank started printing yellow notes in time that we could use them for the Yellow Alert. Once we go into Orange Alert, they'll probably have an orange series (or if the Feds ever stop letting the Department of Homeland Security call us chicken, we could go back to using greenbacks...)
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