Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 18-Mar-94 Re: Locating Color Copiers by stevenJ@alpha1.csd.uwm.e
Additionally, it's only possible to photocopy $1, $5 and $10 because anything larger than that has that funny little strip of plastic in the bill.
Actually, they have strips on the tens, too. Re: passing bills Okay, so the 10's and 20's have little mylar strips on them. You can't copy old bills, because they get wrinkles, and, anyway, if someone handed me a crisp, new 1983 $20 I'd get a bit suspicious. There are ways to age bills, but they look a lot less convincing. However.... What night manager at Denny's knows about the strips. How many times have you seen someone at your local convience store check for the strip when you hand them a $20. If you travel a lot, and never use counterfiet bills for transactions where your name is recorded, you can do lots with counterfiet money. True, though, if you wanted to sell suitcases of it for $3 per twenty dollar bill (I just guessed at the price), you may have a problem. Not a crook, Jer darklord@cmu.edu | "it's not a matter of rights / it's just a matter of war finger me for my | don't have a reason to fight / they never had one before" Geek Code and | -Ministry, "Hero" PGP public key | http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr25/jbde/