The greediest person in the world, or just the stupidest?

http//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060315/us_nm/billion_dc

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The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe.[/quoteca2c412555]

What a tard...

Tekle Ziggetta...kinda rolls off the tongue

I saw this on Anderson Cooper. The funny thing is that the bills looked really good. I bet if the guy wasn't an idiot and tried to pass off real bills he would have gotten away with it (at least for awhile).

Yeah the best way if you were to counterfit money would be all small bills.


Wow 20 here on gas, 30 on food . Oh an item for 60 resale it.

Etc they dont check small bills

lol

when I was in like 8th 9th grade I remember this family moving in on our block. One day all I remember seeing all these feds outside their house they busted in the door, and arrested them all.

they had a counterfieght operation with 20 dollar bills.

Why you gotta be a Snitch man?

seriously though if i had a counterfit operation i wouldnt tell nobody. people talk about other people like its 2nd nature.

it would be so top secret my dog wouldnt even be able to smell the crisp 10's

Around here a lot of places check every bill from $10 up. The sad thing is they rely on those pens to do it.

Those pens are a scam, they don't work with anything other than grade-school counterfeiting. They're just iodine pens, which detect the high starch content in low-grade copier paper by turning it black (remember the old school science experiments with potatoes and iodine) . The thing is, the higher the quality of paper you use, the less starch content, and these pens don't work. Only an idiot (like this guy) would buy a ream of the cheapest OfficeDepot copier paper to print bills.

The Amazing Randi talked about this in a college lecture I watched, where he was debunking a bunch of stuff (he's great at that). He contacted the FBI who told him they don't rely on the pens as evidence because they know they don't work, and yet so many businesses seem to be rely on them. There are so many other ways to ID fake bills by eye alone, people just need to be educated on what they are. Randi also talked about how he likes to mess with peoples minds by going to the bank and withdrawing a couple thousand in $20 - $100 bills. He takes it back to the office, lays it out on a table, and sprays it with spray starch like you use to iron your clothes. Then he takes it back to the bank and re-deposits it. Hilarity ensues as this legal money is redistributed. ) Come to think of it, though, I'd be pissed if I got held up at a store or restaurant because the idiot behind the register used a pen and was convinced the bill was fake...

Thats great.



That must piss off a lotta people

thats almost really fucked up. Lol