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Customs and Border Patrol officers in Minnesota seize $900G in counterfeit bills from Chinese shipping container
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| 01/27/2020
| Danielle Wallace
Posted on 01/27/2020 1:01:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Dollar bills? Wow. Ive often heard counterfeiters like the big bills such as $100, $50, and $20.
I heard a while back that making counterfeit bills less than a ten isn't economical sound nor worth the jail time. Dunno how they came up with this factoid. Guess everything IS cheaper in China.
To: SeekAndFind
Makes ZERO sense to counterfeit ONE dollar bills.
If you bought something for say even $80, you would draw unwanted attention to yourself and the bills counting out EIGHTY bills!
The only way to not get caught, would be to spend them exclusively on lap dances.
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posted on
01/27/2020 1:36:07 PM PST
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe want to check those to see if they’ve been treated with the current coronavirus - or anything else.
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posted on
01/27/2020 1:50:41 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: yarddog
During WWII the Germans produced what seemed like perfect pound notes. The Bank of England caught them almost immediately but I have no idea how.
I think it was the £5 note and that they were so good that the B of E had to go to great lengths to differentiate the genuine from the counterfeits. Supposedly there a a bunch of them at the bottom of some lake in Austria.
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posted on
01/27/2020 1:56:53 PM PST
by
hanamizu
To: faucetman
Makes ZERO sense to counterfeit ONE dollar bills.Go to 4,500 non-chain convenience stores (about 100 per state, easy to find), give them each 200 $1 bills for $100, let the stores spread them into circulation. With connections with cartels/gangs, it would be very easy.
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posted on
01/27/2020 2:06:15 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Try and buy a $100 item with 100 brand new $1.00 bills and watch what happens.
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
01/27/2020 3:01:18 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: SeekAndFind
Its probably fake money used for burning, a form of joss paper, and not actual counterfeit... sometimes called 'hell money' in the west.
Hell money
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posted on
01/27/2020 5:40:04 PM PST
by
battousai
(Trump was wrong... I'm still not tired of Winning!)
To: SeekAndFind
It would take some time, but go to Vegas or any place where there’s more than one casino. Pump those dollar bills in a slot machine. Play a game or two and cash out - you get a voucher that can be traded in for real money.
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posted on
01/27/2020 7:00:56 PM PST
by
Oatka
To: SeekAndFind
It’s 4 degrees F right now in International Falls. I wonder how they can deal with all that cold cash!
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posted on
01/28/2020 5:01:40 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
To: IC Ken
Infected with Corona, yes that is a nightmare scenario. I have no idea whether the virus can survive long outside of a host, but if this was an engineered bioweapon then it figures that some of the Chinese handling the weapon, not knowing its true nature would have helped themselves to some USDs and infected themselves.
Maybe the shipment was originally a million, not 900k.
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posted on
01/28/2020 5:11:56 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
To: yarddog
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posted on
01/28/2020 5:20:45 AM PST
by
alfa6
To: alfa6
Interesting.
It sounds like counterfeiting perfect notes was way more difficult than one would think. Also contrary to what I have read, they were not immediately caught and some probably never were.
Especially interesting was the ones recovered from a lake and examined by British expert who declared them perfect.
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posted on
01/28/2020 5:52:53 AM PST
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: SeekAndFind
And the idiots stuck a sample on the outside of one of the boxes....
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posted on
01/28/2020 8:57:39 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
To: SeekAndFind
And the idiots stuck a sample on the outside of one of the boxes....
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posted on
01/28/2020 8:59:11 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
To: faucetman
What about using them in vending or cash machines. Somebody had a specific use in mind I am sure.
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posted on
01/28/2020 10:00:16 PM PST
by
Valpal1
To: Blood of Tyrants
Ones? 900,000 ones? I guess that they figured they could pawn them off easily because no one bothers to check a $1 bill to see if it is counterfeit.
No one checks fives or tens either. Twentys, maybe. But Ones is just dumb, you get ten times the profit (at basically the same risk) if you run ten-dollar bills!
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