The falsification reached such an extent that he could cheat experts and even ATMs and machines in general.
During the 90s and 2000 perfect copies of US dollars circulated.
The interest in the US dollar generates all kinds of situations, great demand, rises of price, change controls and even scams. Recently it was announced from a statement from the US authorities who were circulating tickets known as “super dollars” that were false, but their imitation was so good that they even cheated to experts.
Even the members of the United States Secret Service, who work specifically for the design of the tickets and the identification of the false specimens, were at first cheated by these super dollars. They had the same high -tech color change ink as authentic US dollars. They were also printed on a paper with exactly the same composition of fibers as the originals: three quarters of American cotton and a linen room.
False $ 100 bills
The dangerous perfection of the ‘superdollars’: how they cheated experts and machines
The recorded images were even thinner than those made by the Recording and Printing Office (BEP). These specimens circulated in several parts of the world in the 1990s and early 2000s. In those years, US official organizations 2 times changed the design of $ 100 bills, but the counterfeiters managed to adapt.
They appeared in Denmark, France, Austria, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Ireland and Russia. It was not known where they came from and who produced them, it was a real headache for the FBI. As the copy was so perfect, only through a sophisticated forensic analysis they could realize that it was imitations.
The origin of the false tickets that terrify the US
The first identification of the origin of these tickets was in California and New Jersey, after the researchers found cargoes of these boats in ships that arrived in Southeast Asia. The criminals had connections with international networks that the FBI already suspected previously. These were people who integrated the North Korean government.
Anyway, the accusations flatly denied from the Asian country. “North Koreans have denied being involved in the distribution and manufacture of falsifications, but the evidence is overwhelming that they are,” the then deputy deputy secretary of terrorism financing and financial crimes in the department of Treasury Daniel Glaser told New York.
To counteract the situation, the FBI organized a false wedding and a divorce party in the Playboy mansion. The plan was a success and made 87 arrests in total, but it is believed that there can still be a small amount of these false dollars circulating in the world.
Source: Ambito
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