North Korea attacking U.S. with fake $100 bills ("SUPERDOLLAR" is back ! At at a bank near you !)

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=193917 ^ | 21 August 2010

[davidosborne]

Lol “betting” on a casino. The odds are not good. I won’t take that bet. Lol

[davidosborne]

Great research mewzilla. Give it a month and you will see more cases than you can imagine.

[mewzilla]

I’ve noticed clerks in our local Wallys giving c-notes the hairy eyeball, so Wally seems to be pretty concerned.

[davidosborne]

Yupper !

[Caipirabob]

What ATM carries $100 bills?

In Las Vegas it's pretty common, and the volume is tremendous (it may as well catch fire and burn coming out of some of those casino machines!)

[davidosborne]

But the casino money is a major segment of our economy! Ugh!

[Lurking in Kansas]

What the heck, all of the money the US has been minting in the last 2 years is counterfeit anyway...

[davidosborne]

Lol. Maybe true. But the fed likes to be exclusive manufacturer. Lol

[elcid1970]

“What percentage of retail transactions over $100 are for cash?”

Well.... a large percentage could be for the purchase of firearms and ammunition.

Especially firearms of the `unpapered’ variety......

;^)

[cornfedcowboy]

Question. Does the “Super Bill” pass the sharpie marker test that cashiers often check with? If so, just how in the heck can these things be detected?

[brityank]

So how do we common schlubs tell the fake ones if the banks have trouble? Seems those “old, dead, white men” had the right idea all along - gold and silver, and no national bank or fiat script.

[SunkenCiv]

It's an act of war, but wth, we've got a fake president in the White House. Oops, sorry, no, he's probably on vacation somewhere. Thanks davidosborne. Additional:

• N. Korea attacks U.S. with fake $100 bills

[Screaming_Gerbil]

What percentage of retail transactions over $100 are for cash? Other than for street drug purchases?

Buying a used vehicle from a private party. People want cash (and you want to take cash) because of so many bad checks out there.

[RockinRight]

Agreed. Working in a bank, both cash and plastic are far safer than checks.

[davidosborne]

I do not purport to be an expert on the matter but my understanding is the marker is testing the paper. So if the process involves “upgrading” a smaller REAL note to a c-note than I would have to assume that it would pass the marker test. Any FReeper experts out there that can answer that definitively?

[Red in Blue PA]

When I travel overseas (though not lately as I am unemployed), I was always told not to accept $100 bills of the series numbers of the false notes are $CB /2001, as they are fake.

In general, I avoid large bills whenever possible.

[Red in Blue PA]

North Korea has been doing this FOREVER.

It is not a secret.

[davidosborne]

If I sell something “large” to a private party I go with bank to bank wire or cashiers check from MY bank not theirs. They can buy a cashiers check at my bank with their cash. The bank accepts responsibility for the cash and deposits the cashiers check into my account.

[Roccus]

Anyone here remember that picture of the stacks of sheets of bills in Lebanon a while back? It was during the Lebanon/Israel war in ‘06(?). It showed a bunch of rubble in what was called a “financial center” and in the rubble were stacks of paper sheets on which there appeared to be the front images of $100 bills. IIRC, the bills were four across the sheets. There was much discussion of this here at FR at the time, but my computer fried a while back and I lost my links. Any help appreciated.

[Marty62]

New atm by one of the Major banks.