Counterfeit U.S. Cash Floods Crime Forums
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Counterfeit U.S. Cash Floods Crime Forums
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#2>'MrMouse says his single-ply bills do not have magnetic ink, and so they won’t pass machines designed to look for the presence of this feature.'
Clever tip for detecting counterfeits, found in comments:
>'A good strong, neodynmium cylindrical magnet stuck to the side of something is a great way to check US currency. Just hold a bill by the corner and dangle it close to the magnet. The bill will show a slight, but very observable attraction. Easy and fast.'
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#3>'MrMouse says his single-ply bills do not have magnetic ink, and so they won’t pass machines designed to look for the presence of this feature.' Clever tip for detecting counterfeits, found in comments: >'A good strong, neodynmium cylindrical magnet stuck to the side of something is a great way to check US currency. Just hold a bill by the corner and dangle it close to the magnet. The bill will show a slight, but ve…
nevertheless, I can hit my local CVS and pay with my $100. They will just check the security strip. Easy peasy.
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#4The primary question: How the hell do you get this to your door? If I was to order it to a physical box, I face major felony charges as the government has a website to hack, and I am not confident in some random dude's ability to secure his website with every known security hole patched.
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#5The primary question: How the hell do you get this to your door? If I was to order it to a physical box, I face major felony charges as the government has a website to hack, and I am not confident in some random dude's ability to secure his website with every known security hole patched.
Typically you ship to some drop address (e.g., a house you know is empty, or somewhere where they'll leave the package somewhere easy to surveil and pick up). There was a DC-area mayor who had drugs shipped to him in this kind of scheme (he was uninvolved) and had his house shot up by a SWAT team as a result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...
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#6Do all bills have magnetic ink?
I cannot seem to find a list.
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#7The primary question: How the hell do you get this to your door? If I was to order it to a physical box, I face major felony charges as the government has a website to hack, and I am not confident in some random dude's ability to secure his website with every known security hole patched.
Typically you ship to some drop address (e.g., a house you know is empty, or somewhere where they'll leave the package somewhere easy to surveil and pick up). There was a DC-area mayor who had drugs shipped to him in this kind of scheme (he was uninvolved) and had his house shot up by a SWAT team as a result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...
In this case, wasn't a shipping employee involved?
I seem to recall that the package (drugs, etc) was addressed to the Mayor's home but was intercepted at the distribution center by the shipping employee (involved in the scheme) before being delivered.
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#8Do all bills have magnetic ink? I cannot seem to find a list.
One dollars do not as of yet
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#9I lived in Ecuador for 5 months, which uses the US Dollar.
A couple of local guys that worked for me had a lot of fun testing my abilities to detect fake bills, which are plentiful in Ecuador. Even when they gave me two bills and told me one was real and one was fake, I couldn't discern any difference after 5 months of them showing me all the tricks of the trade.
The copies are extremely good, and I suspect not many people in the US are going to spend the time to check if a $10 or $20 is fake.
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#10Note that Krebs hasn't verified that any orders have been received (fake "reviews" in underground forums are very common). Lots of people have claimed to sell fake currency in these marketplaces and are almost always a scam. This looks like one too.