US Dollars.....made in Portugal...

[Ronin]

PORTUGUESE police have seized 7.5 million US dollars in high-quality counterfeit bills, and arrested seven men.

Herald Tribune Europe (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/01/europe/EU_GEN_Portugal_Counterfeit_Dollars.php)

Euro Weekly News (http://www.euroweeklynews.com/ewn/news.php?ref=120109740559302)


damn...there goes those vacations I was planning......*damn...did I say that out loud?*


just forget about it ok?....here...keep the change...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/vincent_pt/unitedStatesQOTSA.jpg

:laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

The moral of the story is that it doesn't pay to buck the system.

[Vladimir]

Oh thank God! I thought we started to outsource our currency production. :sweatdrop:

[drone]

I thought the US Dollar was a declining currency, shouldn't they be forging Euros instead? :inquisitive:

[Ronin]

I thought the US Dollar was a declining currency, shouldn't they be forging Euros instead? :inquisitive:


The euro bills have reflective holographic (spelling?) parts that the dollars don´t have...maybe the euro bills are just harder to copy.....

[Moros]

Euros are harder to copy...No I didn't move to spain, why do you think that?

:runs away:

[drone]

Most of the US bills have been redesigned lately to be harder to counterfeit, with watermarks, reflective inks, and metal strips. The US Treasury site says the $100 bill (the one counterfeited here) is up for a redesign soon, maybe they need to step it up.

Since US currency is used all around the world, I'm curious as to how the olde bills are treated. There is probably a large percentage of counterfeits out there, at what point do the old bills get rejected?

[Vladimir]

That's the thing. There are so many different versions of legit U.S. currency floating around how do you know which one is real. Sure you can look at the date but what normal retail mechant has all of them memorized?

[drone]

Well in the US, IIRC the older currency gets replaced when it cycles back through the banks. So not many of the older bills are still around. But in other countries, I can imagine the bills getting traded around until they wear out. I guess as long as you can keep circulating a bill among the locals without anyone knowing it's a fake, it's just as "good" as a valid bill.

[Papewaio]

The euro bills have reflective holographic (spelling?) parts that the dollars don´t have...maybe the euro bills are just harder to copy.....

Another Aussie first.