Try Dashlane: www.dashlane.co... 10% off Premium Promo Code: austinmcconnell Let's talk about money. What kind of security measures go into a $100 bill?
@@user-zh1ee7mf1j you didn't see how Austin explained it costs 12.5¢ to make a $100 bill? the man is tossing the quarters to pay for the cost of the bills, not the fucking purchased items
I worked in a deli for over a year and we were not allowed to accept tips. However on many occasions people would throw it over the counter and walk away haha. But one time someone threw me a 50 and I couldn't believe it. I had been tipped 5s 10s and even 20s before but 50 was a new one. But once I got home, went to put it with the rest of my cash, and noticed the colouring on Grant's hair and beard were very dark and uniform. I later took it to my friend who collects currencies and he told me it was a counterfeit probably made in the 90s and due to the wear on the bill it was most likely actually used multiple times and luckily slipped past cashiers or was used in cash to hand deals. So I didn't get a 50 dollar tip but there is a chance the guy meant to give me a 50 dollar tip LOOOL
I saw something unfold at a store in Utah, a cashier clerk was seriously about to call the police on a boy who was buying something for his grandmother out in the car with the money he gave her. Just because the boy gave her an old $2 bill, which she didn't think was a real thing. The manager eventually had to come out in all the commotion to say "yeah, that's a real thing you idiot." The next day, the woman either was fired, or more likely quit.
@Nuclear stealth bomber B2- spirit I just thought, since it said the bill was from the grandmother, and old, I wondered if it could be really old, like, collectible old, doesn't mean it was, but I doubt it would be the first time a priceless collectible was accidentally used that way (could happen with stamps, too)
In Europe we got new 5€ notes in mai of 2013. 2 to 3 years after you didnt see any of the old ones anymore. If so it was as special as having one of the first new 5€ notes in you hand.
@@Pyrogelum marker test only works up to 1957 or 67 I want to say. Anything older real or not the pen thinks is fake. It says on the pens how old it can detect as real
I actually do have a counterfeit money story! A few years back, my current girlfriend and I were hanging out at a mutual friends house. This friend lived with their parents, and they would routinely send us on small errands or snack runs. We enjoyed doing it, even though it was usually a little late. We went to the same gas station that was open 24/7, with the same grumpy cashier- a middle aged man who'd immigrated from Africa. I had always instinctually liked him, but he never seemed to like me. Maybe because he was always stuck on night shift, idk. But yeah, we get the items and I hand him the money. He holds it for about 2 seconds before telling me "this is fake, man" Standing my ground, I tell him the bill was certainly NOT fake. Again, he says insists that it was fake, and that he was calling the police. I didn't mind. I had done nothing wrong, and at the time I completely trusted that my friends mother wasn't running an underground counterfeiting operation- so I told him I'd wait. I was very supervised when the police officer smiled and said, "yeah, this bill is counterfeit" and showed me that it was thin, and off colored. I couldn't tell the difference, but I still nodded and apologized to the clerk. Nothing really happened after that. The police asked me where I had gotten it, and I told them I'd gotten the money from my friends mother who'd sent us to get snacks. They followed us back to our house to have a word with her. At 1am, outside, in her bathrobe, she explained that she'd gotten it from a local TacoBell earlier that day. They took the bill, and left. Not really that exciting, but the funny part was, from that night forward, the grumpy old cashier and I became great friends. We always talked whenever I would come in. It was nice, how a counterfeit bill brought us together, lol. I eventually moved away from that town, and I still think of him often. I hope he is doing well.
Did the TacoBell refund your money? (Probably not, but imagine if the next time you went there the cashier would just hand you a bill and say: This is for you, why? Don't ask me.)
I’m sure a lot of viewers here will be able to share stories of cashiers thinking a $2 bill or an older ( early 90’s era ) regular bill were counterfeit. I tried to pay for some Subway with a 1980’s $5 and the manager called mall security on me, which was annoying at best.
I've had cashiers reject $2 bills, as well. If memory serves, there was a man somewhere in the US who was arrested for using them. The cashier thought they were fake, and the cop that was called to the scene had never heard of them, either.
Yup that's the story I was gonna tell. I got handed an old lincoln right after my boss told me that there was counterfeit money being spent at stores like ours, and it took a bit of googling for me to accept the man was telling the truth. I felt awful, but thankfully he just chuckled and left.
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As a cashier A customer tried to pay me with a "counterfeit $20" it really wasn't counterfeit since the part where it should say "the United States of America" said "motion pictures" I even read the part where it should say this note is legal tender, but it specifically said it's not legal tender and it's from motion pictures. The poor lady got embarrassed after showing her that, but thankfully she had her card and paid off her merchandise.
Movie money is also usually 10 to 20 % larger bills than real money so as to avoid counter fitting laws. Big enough to avoid the law, small enough to not be noticed on screen
A counterfeiter would know all that fact already, it doesn't made a differences. An average person wouldn't have access or resources to make a convincing counterfeit bill anyway. In short.. this reveal almost nothing to a counterfeiter, but present a good deal of information for average person how to spot fake bill.
It's not the knowledge of the security measures, but rather replicating them without precisely knowing how they're made. Because that's the classified information, not the measures themselves.
Here in Australia, we have plastic, colourful notes, with holographic parts. The plastic is for strength so they don’t rip when going through the wash, the colour and holographic is for looks, but the holographic would also make it difficult to counterfeit.
Here in Brasil every bill has a diferent size and color with a national animal in the front and a portrait of princess Isabel on the back, they are just the loveliest tints of blue pink and yellow
One time at work someone handed me a fake $100 for a coffee and some donuts. It just didnt even feel like money. It felt like thicc monopoly money. My manager came over said "Sir this is counterfeit, we've notified the authorities and they would like to have a talk with you" The guy acted like he didnt know, apologized, left the bill with us and then left the store.
I used to work night shift at a gas station just outside Cleveland and I came across several counterfeit bills in my time there. Most of the time it's not a big deal, they honestly don't realize it's fake and they had just gotten it in change from another store or as payment for something and had no idea themselves. They always apologized and paid with another bill. Never had anybody I actually thought was trying to pull one over on us. But there was one instance that stood out as especially funny. One of my regulars was a nanny for a fairly wealthy family. She'd always stop by late at night, usually having just left the family's house after watching the kids while the parents were on a date night or whatnot. Well one night she stopped in and asked if I could make change for a $100, as she the family hadn't had anything smaller to pay her with. The moment she handed it to me it felt weird, and when I looked at the bill I had to do a literal double-take. It was *actual* movie money! One of the fake bills they use as props when shooting movies! It was so strange, because you could clearly tell if you looked at it that it was just slightly wrong in every aspect. It was a little too thick, a little too wide, the portrait was slightly askew, the numbers weren't quite in the right place...everything was just *slightly* off so it was almost surreal looking at it. On the back of the bill, at the top where it normally says "United States of America", it instead said "NOT LEGAL TENDER: FOR MOVIE USE ONLY." The look of horror on her face when I said it was fake was priceless! XD She looked like she was about to break down and started panicking, until I started laughing. Then she was just confused. I handed her the bill back and said "didn't you tell me that father you nanny for works in the film industry? I think he gave you a prop bill by accident." We had a good laugh, but she didn't have anything else on her to pay with, so I just told her not to worry about it. She was a regular, so I said she could take her stuff and just pay for it next time she came in. We joked about that bill for months afterwards. ^_^
About a year ago, my friend tried to pay for something at a convenience store with a $5 bill he got from a tip at his job. The cashier noticed something odd, and it turned out to be counterfeit. The police were called, and my friend was put into handcuffs until he managed to explain where he got it and how he didn't know it was fake.
Hey Austin! Here is a counterfeit story: When I was in the boy scouts, one of our leaders worked for the Secret Service and at one point he thought it would be fun to give us a tour of where he worked. Now, making a government building interesting to a bunch of 13-year-olds is hard. But one way they spiced it up was taking us into a room and passing around about $10K of confiscated counterfeit money. Some of it was convincing, but there were also all kinds of hilarious printing errors: Bills that weren't aligned right, wrong colors, faces looking the wrong way, a lot of it was printed on plain paper, others were printed on bleached bills of smaller amounts, all kinds of crazy stuff. They then followed it up by explaining in detail to us teenagers, exactly how one would go about making a decent counterfeit. (this was before a lot of the new security features). I think the guy was used to giving this talk to law enforcement. It was probably the most interesting field trip I ever had.
Same! So what happened was my dad is a secret service person thing and he took is 2 billion dollar jet flew it into the whitehouse and i got to see around the place! It was really cool oh yea and also he showed me every single government building without having to go through any security and nobody questioned it. I then took a tank blew into the pentagon launched nukes to north korea and then I flew the tank to space blew up the satellite and we then got to see the counterfeit bills.
I think something most people dont consider is that US money is very VERY poorly designed for visually impaired/blind people. The Euro bills etc are different sizes as are the coins, no such luck for US blind people. I think when they re-design them, size and feel should come into play.
TagDelta 915 But there are Braille marks for blind people and the plastic design on the uk notes stop them from tearing once when so they aren’t that bad also they all are different sizes so what are you talking about
I've had older people try to pay and they hand me the wrong coins/bills or hand me way too much (like a $10 transaction and they hand me $5 AND a $20) I always tell them if they handed me to much or the wrong currency and they appreciate it
Polish zloty bills for example have raised shapes like squares triangles and circles in the corner to help blind people, also the actual number is raised and they're thinking of redesigning it with braille one day. Any of these would be a good idea to implement on the US dollar
my parents owned a pizza restaurant when i was a kid/teen. i'll never forget the day the police came in and ask my mom if someone had been in and paid with a $50.00. She said yes, and showed the officer the bill. its counterfeit he said, and asked us which way they went. as a 12 yr old this was very exciting.
Derk Cast the way my family’s pizza restaurant is able to test counterfeits is to see if our gambling machines accept the bill. They have up to date technology to detect fakes. If my machine accepts it then we’re all good
When I used to deliver pizzas, somebody paid for a $15 Pizza with a $100 bill that was lopsided, felt like regular printer paper, and had a water mark that said for display use only. Yeah I didn't give him his pizza
Bad move. You wouldn't have gotten to tell your boss you were able to collect the money either way, but at least if you had given him his pizza and paid for it with your own money, the guy wouldn't have called your boss angrily about your behavior and you wouldn't have gotten fired. Would you rather lose $15 or your job?
@@TrigramThunder Whuuut. Let me get this straight. You expect the delivery dude to pay for someone else's food? Especially when that customer tried to scam him with fake bucks?? What kind of manipulative logic is this. That's just gonna encourage the scammer to do the same thing again, and take advantage of other delivery guys who don't know any better. Tf?? People in that reallyyy low-income job need the money too. Are you serious??
@@TrigramThunder What utter nonsense. So the guy has to pay for someone's food to keep his job? Doing your job should never cost you anything. If, in the course of my job I need to pay even a tiny amount for something, I claim it back from the company. No one should ever be out of pocket in order to do a job. Don't know about you but I work to make money, not spend it.
@@grahamlive yeah that's all very fine and dandy but this dude lost his job. the customer would have given him a fake bill either way, so unless he could convince the customer to pay with real money, he was to face the loss himself or lose the job, and the latter happened. I'm not defending having to pay money in the course of your work, but in these unfortunate circumstances, it was by far the easiest way out of this problem that didn't cost you your job.
yeah when us westerners think of money we have that classic usa note image so i like it. im from australia tho and i gotta say, our colourful plastic money is where its at. same with canada
I work at boost mobile, at least once a week someone trashes a store because they have a fake bill, that they “didn’t know”. But by the way they watch me test it with the marker, look for the water mark, and feel for the raised printing. They get very irritated very quick.
yui kol hypothetically, yes. But people are often more suspicious of money they aren't familiar with. Other people in the comments of stories of old money being not accepted or heavily scrutinized if they haven't seen that bill before. I work in a coffee shop and have been told to just accept anything I haven't seen even if I haven't seen it before. That being said I'd definitely check with someone else if a $200 bill came through. But a $3 bill? Meh, whatever, probably just a new type of bill.
That was my immediate thought too. When I visited the US recently, I had a $100 bill that was at least 15 years old (my parents had kept it after a vacation years ago) but it was accepted without question. It was in perfect condition (still fresh from the currency exchange) and so it seems more plausible that counterfeiters would just copy the old bills. Here in the UK, we have a brief overlap (a few months) before old bills are no longer accepted in general circulation. You can still exchange them at the Bank of England forever, and most regular banks will take them too, but shops won't.
There used to be this trend on “tiktok” where they cut open the place where the security thread is and they would pull it out making said 5,10,50,100 dollar bill worthless
0:54, you state that one reason american bank notes dont look flashy is that they have to accommodate security features, yet many countries have really good security features and have good looking notes (ie my country australia)
Story time: I work at Chick-fil-A, and on my first day, with my 1st or 2nd customer ever a lady attempted to order a small soda with a counterfeit $20, but we have to use counterfeit pens so we caught it thankfully
It depends on if she knew it was counterfeit or not. Counterfeiters rely on ignorance to keep their business alive, and going after someone who is unknowingly in possession of counterfeit is a lot like arresting someone just because they have a few microgrames of cocaine on them.
I remember someone on the street in New York wanted to exchange a 10 dollar bill for change to buy stuff at the store. I related and gave him my two fives. Nothing too bad and the guy left. But immediately when he left, I felt that the bill didn't feel right and felt very weird. I held it to the light and sure enough there was no watermark showing Hamilton. I immediately went up to the guy and didn't directly confront him about the counterfeit. I just said "Hey I just remembered I need to owe this guy $5 and I need the change back so I can pay him" I remember when he was giving me the change he was shaking so badly, but I didn't raise anything. I remember walking away and crossing the street and he said something about the bill not being fake, but I pretended I didn't know anything.
Jake Mitch lol never a thought an American citizen would actually say that, even though it's true the dollar like any other type of paper money has no value. I have to give it to the US for making a mockery over the world with the dollar.
I work in retail and often count and submit the cash from previous days in the mornings. We found about $400 in fake bills that were really convincing. I don't remember what year they were but the only reason we figured out they were fake was because we count bills by weight on a scale, and the fake bills were lighter than the legit ones. The drawer they were in kept coming up $40 dollars short, and we were pretty confused when hand counting the money gave us the correct amount.
When I worked at Sonic, we had someone try to pay for their food with a fake 10. Except it wasn’t a counterfeit bill, it was for movie production. It even said on the bill that it was not legal tender. I don’t think they knew it was fake, but it was hilarious.
Your videos are so fantastic. You're like VSauce but less sciency, the news but less current, animators but not animated- well, for the most part. You get the idea.
For an Art project at a school, I recreated lifelike dollar bills which were used to adorn a textile piece. I created over 400 of these bills which all featured the black and green ink on the off-white bill. The headmistress of the school, who had been a frequent traveler to the United States was shocked to see so many dollars used in an art project, never once suspecting they were fake. She asked how much it had cost in dollars to create. She was embarrassed to hear they were not real. I even used paper that was a little thicker than normal for the ‘bills’.
Compared to other banknotes ... ours ... they just aren't very flashy. There are a number of reasons for this. Tradition playing probably the biggest role, but another important factor is security. [...] The designers of this modern version had to find a way to seamlessly blend the classic design that citizens were familiar with, while mitigating a slew of new security features." Makes it sound like tradition is the only reason for a non flashy redisign as a complete redisign would make it easier to incorporate the security features without having to work around the old designfeatures.
There is like 3 people and 5 moose up there in Canada why do they need money when they can trade syrup the most valuable thing in the world. I would love to see someone try to eat a bar of gold on their pancakes and tell me it tastes good.
I only have a single $5 bill I got from my uncle who was in the US because he works as a mechanic on cruiseships, no idea if it's fake, exchanging it for usable currency doesn't seem worth the effort, so instead I've folded it in a way that it appears to be Lincoln with some sort of pope's hat.
Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer Who would counterfeit a $5 bill when people can counterfeit 50s just as easily. Obviously your not from the US as you only have a US $5 bill (I don’t mean that as an insult) but a counterfeit $5 isn’t going to make a scratch compared to all the money in circulation. True, somebody might counterfeit a $5 bill but that would be a massive waste of time compared to more value counterfeiting a $50, $20, or $100.
@@RyBrown yeah I'm not from the US (and luckily so if I gather all the shit going on over there), but that should be completely irrelevant. Whether we're talking about $5 £5 or €5 they're close enough in value to be comparable. The reason why someone might counterfeit low denomination notes (and of course, they would still do it in larger batches, not just a single note) is because be of the common assumption that only higher denominations will be worth counterfeiting. Because of that assumption, low denomination notes are rarely checked, and thus a low denomination counterfeit can slip under the radar much easier than a high denomination counterfeit. Higher denominations might be more profitable per resource cost, but they also come with larger risk
Can we all remember that Australia not only introduced the advanced security features shown in the video back in the 80's, but they were also more advanced to begin with (colour differentiation and polymer construction being the biggest advantages). And I know many other nations now have advanced notes equal to Australia's, but the RBA was the one who invented a lot of this technology and pioneered the modern standard for money (which the US is still not meeting XD) - which they then licence to other nations.
No hate to Austin, it's just strange seeing someone try to tell us how great the US notes are when their cash security technology is decades behind other nations.
VexinatorDesigns yea I live in Australia and when travelling Ive always thought any other countries notes feel cheap and shitty, especially America's. No hate tho lol
VexinatorDesigns In the video he said the security measures were hard to implement while still keeping the bill similar to the old ones so I’m not surprised US currency isn’t on par with other countries.
i was once waiting in taco bell when a classmate ordered a meal. he gave the cashier a 20$ bill and i could see that it was an obvious fake. he was from a different country and just had recently moved to the states so i’m sure that he didn’t know that he had the counterfeit. the cashier looked at him and told him that he wouldn’t accept the money because it was fake and i had felt the largest second hand embarrassment for him because he kept on looking back at me. if i didn’t have a bad history with him, i would’ve paid the meal but i just watched while he walked out of taco bell.
I work in fast food and it’s our rule to not except £50 notes because they are really rare and easy to forge, this women handed one to me and I told her we aren’t allowed to take them and she started an argument because “it’s got the queens face on it so we have to accept it” despite telling her the rules, she even threatened to call the police
Yeah actually only 2-10% of money is tangible. If you deposit 1000 dollars into the bank it doesn’t stay in the bank for you to go and pick it up. It gets given to the next person who wants to withdraw money.
Yep I very rarely carry cash money these days with my paychecking being automatic deposit, so I just pull out my check card, and pay that way, and I don't withdraw cash unless I know I'm going thrifting someplace like a flea market, or something like that which is only a few times a year for me. so basically most of my money is just numbers in a digital system.
I knew about it, but I'm like you since I no longer work retail I rarely ever handle bills larger than $20, as I'm usually using my check card, or credit card when paying for something, and if I need cash which is rare these days, my credit union's ATM only spits out 20's, and 10's.
I used to manage a movie theater. One night when cashing out a box office attendant, there was a fake 100 in their drawer. Someone had photo-copied the bill, and then used a glitter glue on the bell and blue security strip. 🤦♀️
I have never seen a counterfeit dollar as of yet, however, a few years ago my uncle was trying to pay something expensive, and when he was taking too long to take the money out, he joked saying "Excuse me, it sometimes sticks together when recently printed" scarying the seller.
I use to work at a gas station back in high school in the late 90's, and I had 1 old lady in her late 80's at the point who use come in the store just to get out of her house, and would use money from the 50's and 60's she had saved when her husband had worked a "Big Government Job" which is all she would say about it(I live near a former Nuke bomb plant, and now a waste site), and she would always get 2 cans of Navy Snuff, and 2 cokes in glass bottles. Always took her time to look around the store, but always the same order. Man now I wish I had kept a few of those 5, 10, and 20 bills for my collection of coins, and bills.
Canadian bills are the best because you never have to worry about them accidently getting wet and becoming soggy because they're literally made of plastic.
Dude its not just canada, most of the world uses plastic bills. Australia has been praised as having the best bills in the world because of their design and durability.
+Azizul Adnan you don't, actually. literally anything can be money, including seashells, pebbles, metals etc. money is only worth something because people agree it's worth something. if you didn't want to pay anything for money, you could use something like pine cones, but then you would be missing on the fancy anti-counterfeiting technology you'd get if you spent $0.12 for that $100 bill.
+Caleb Razzleberry "It’s almost like it has value or something" assuming you are correct, the $100 bill would only be worth $0.12, because it only costs $0.12 to produce one. the thing is, that $100 bill is just a piece of paper that has no intrinsic value whatsoever. the entirety of the value currency holds comes from the agreement of the people who use that currency.
Once I was moving some old stuff and found a perfect looking pre 2010 $100 bill that had everything correct, accept, when held up to a light, the hologram inside was of Abraham Lincoln and not Ben Franklin, which seemed odd. I looked it up and the exact bill was one of 300 Chinese counterfeit tests
Huh, when I was a cashier at Walmart we were taught to always check 20's for the watermark portrait (possibly higher denominations too, though I can't remember for certain), but we weren't ever told to make sure it's the correct face. I remember some of the 20's were so worn that I couldn't really make out the watermark, leading to some awkward moments, since that was the only way they taught us to verify them. Also, when I first saw the new 100 bill, I thought it was play money. I still think it looks silly compared to the dull green of the other bills.
I think the problem in Australia is the advanced technology of banknotes compared to the US and that means the notes would cost more than the 12c for a US banknote. So a $1 note in Australia hardly makes sense. Australia invented plastic money notes. Australia is now developing chips which will be embedded in banknotes which will expire the notes at a date preventing people from hoarding them.
@@ralBurebsuos You are correct about who prints money, however you are incorrect about the Federal Reserve being part of the government. They are a private entity.
I remember when my dad used to run a print shop next to a small store. Whenever I was with him, he used to give me money to get stuff from there. When I bought stuff from there, the guy running the store used to check the money to make sure it was real lol. The guy got arrested later on for EBT Fraud.
Yeah but the point of more 'intersting' designs is for people who are visually impaired. Ideally it they should be completely different sizes/textures for people who are completely blind
In canada, you are not able to cut,rip any bill if you are able to you are an body builder or was before somehow. Also if you cant see you can use the colors
In terms of world currencies, the security features on US bank notes are kinda rudimentary. There's absolutely no reason they can't change the basic dull design.
The most obvious new security feature is polymer or hybrid polymer bank notes that are much harder to counterfeit. They also allow completely transparent "windows" that make it even harder to duplicate. Check out Canada's new 10 dollar note for an example.
The swiss banknotes are some of the best in the world, with a counterfeit ratio 10x lower than USD, and 5x lower than EUR. The Swiss National Bank has a little presentation on the (advertised) security features for the 8th series: www.snb.ch/en/iabout/cash/series8/id/cash_series8_security The 9th series notes that are currently being rolled out have even more.
I’m from Toronto, Canada. At the time, I was banking with BMO (Bank of Montreal, big mistake) and I was converting some US bills. They processed the bills without issue, except for a single $1 bill. They looked at it under UV, used the special counterfeit marker, and even called over the manager. Eventually, they informed me this bill was most likely counterfeit. The teller then proceeded to hand the suspected counterfeit bill back to me. I was shocked in the moment, so I took the bill back. Since when can a bank return suspected counterfeit money? I still have it in my safe as a “souvenir”, I guess.
I received a $2 bill as a tip yesterday, got fascinated and started searching for RUclips videos, and I was recommended this video as a result. I very much appreciate the fact you had a $2 on that table.
Of counterfeit bills, once I was at a gas station and they had a $35 bill on the wall. Apparently one time someone tried to pay with it.
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I saw a 1 dollar bill with micheal jordans face
Hilarious
I saw a fake 50£ note that said 500£ on the back
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A complex 100 dollar bill costs 12.5 cents to print but it costs 15 cents to print a page from my university library? Sheesh
are you printing your page 1.5 billion times :)?
@@alekspapez no but every university student in the US who pays 15 cents a page or more probably are in total
@@RedSnake714 and since they are all different the 15 cents is what you will have to pay, exactly the point i made before..
@@alekspapez are you just taking my sarcastic and unrealistic comment literally? Because it looks like you did
Yeah but the government isn’t paying $80 for one ink cartridge
“That’ll be $200”
*Tosses two quarters at the clerk*
“What is this?”
“Keep the change”😎
@Oof i dont
ِ since it cost 12.5 cents to make a 100 dollar bill 200 will cost 25 cents to make and he gives the clerk 50 cents
@@henryelias4588 I still dont get it
ِ then you’re stupid
@@user-zh1ee7mf1j you didn't see how Austin explained it costs 12.5¢ to make a $100 bill? the man is tossing the quarters to pay for the cost of the bills, not the fucking purchased items
People be talking “oh, now counterfeiters are gonna be taking notes!”
And here I am I can’t even afford printer ink.
@Caleb Bessler Im pretty sure it is an intentional joke
@Caleb Bessler oh I'm dumb I suppose
Ink cartridges cost around 50 pound in stores yet in factory's they cost 12 pence to make. Ironic isn't it? It's a total scam.
Security through obscurity just doesn't work. It doesn't matter that counterfeiters know the bill's features, the hard part is copying those features.
I was about to say about something about how counterfeiting money would be more expensive than actually earning it
You cracked me up.
I worked in a deli for over a year and we were not allowed to accept tips.
However on many occasions people would throw it over the counter and walk away haha. But one time someone threw me a 50 and I couldn't believe it.
I had been tipped 5s 10s and even 20s before but 50 was a new one. But once I got home, went to put it with the rest of my cash, and noticed the colouring on Grant's hair and beard were very dark and uniform. I later took it to my friend who collects currencies and he told me it was a counterfeit probably made in the 90s and due to the wear on the bill it was most likely actually used multiple times and luckily slipped past cashiers or was used in cash to hand deals.
So I didn't get a 50 dollar tip but there is a chance the guy meant to give me a 50 dollar tip LOOOL
its the thought that counts lol
In some ways you were luckier to have received the counterfeit bill.
Well, if you were the first to notice in 50 years, you could still just use it
Maybe he knew and wanted to fool someone
That's ilegal though
I saw something unfold at a store in Utah, a cashier clerk was seriously about to call the police on a boy who was buying something for his grandmother out in the car with the money he gave her. Just because the boy gave her an old $2 bill, which she didn't think was a real thing. The manager eventually had to come out in all the commotion to say "yeah, that's a real thing you idiot." The next day, the woman either was fired, or more likely quit.
xD rip
I hope that $2 bill wasn't some kind of collectible, worth way more than face value
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you can get two dollar bills at the bank lol
@Nuclear stealth bomber B2- spirit I just thought, since it said the bill was from the grandmother, and old, I wondered if it could be really old, like, collectible old, doesn't mean it was, but I doubt it would be the first time a priceless collectible was accidentally used that way (could happen with stamps, too)
Nuclear stealth bomber B2- spirit they’re not worthless, they’re worth two dollars
Well, I bought a fake dollar and now I can fool all my friends into thinking I have a real dollar.
Wow
n everything
*SNAP* _everything disintegrates_
FBI OPEN UP!
I saw one of your latest comments on that SciShow video about itching-creepy!
“I would be incredibly excited to hold one of these, when I was 5”
19yo Me: “So that’s what a $100 bill looks like.”
Lmao same the first time I held a real one was when I was 15 and I got paid I was euphoric
Why counterfeit new bills, when you can counterfeit older less secure bills that are still allowed to remain in circulation?
FutureNow I really don’t know but a thought is that eventually wouldn’t someone notice that this bill is an old one but doesn’t look worn or used?
That is the first thing that I think when I see a crisp, old style bill. It gets the marker test, as those bills don't have watermarks afaik.
Because older bills are generally subject to more scrutiny by the person accepting them.
In Europe we got new 5€ notes in mai of 2013. 2 to 3 years after you didnt see any of the old ones anymore. If so it was as special as having one of the first new 5€ notes in you hand.
@@Pyrogelum marker test only works up to 1957 or 67 I want to say. Anything older real or not the pen thinks is fake. It says on the pens how old it can detect as real
I actually do have a counterfeit money story!
A few years back, my current girlfriend and I were hanging out at a mutual friends house. This friend lived with their parents, and they would routinely send us on small errands or snack runs. We enjoyed doing it, even though it was usually a little late.
We went to the same gas station that was open 24/7, with the same grumpy cashier- a middle aged man who'd immigrated from Africa. I had always instinctually liked him, but he never seemed to like me. Maybe because he was always stuck on night shift, idk.
But yeah, we get the items and I hand him the money. He holds it for about 2 seconds before telling me "this is fake, man"
Standing my ground, I tell him the bill was certainly NOT fake. Again, he says insists that it was fake, and that he was calling the police.
I didn't mind. I had done nothing wrong, and at the time I completely trusted that my friends mother wasn't running an underground counterfeiting operation- so I told him I'd wait.
I was very supervised when the police officer smiled and said, "yeah, this bill is counterfeit" and showed me that it was thin, and off colored. I couldn't tell the difference, but I still nodded and apologized to the clerk.
Nothing really happened after that. The police asked me where I had gotten it, and I told them I'd gotten the money from my friends mother who'd sent us to get snacks. They followed us back to our house to have a word with her. At 1am, outside, in her bathrobe, she explained that she'd gotten it from a local TacoBell earlier that day.
They took the bill, and left.
Not really that exciting, but the funny part was, from that night forward, the grumpy old cashier and I became great friends. We always talked whenever I would come in. It was nice, how a counterfeit bill brought us together, lol. I eventually moved away from that town, and I still think of him often. I hope he is doing well.
Did the TacoBell refund your money? (Probably not, but imagine if the next time you went there the cashier would just hand you a bill and say: This is for you, why? Don't ask me.)
Plot twist: She lied; you were a snack mule laundering her fake bills produced in the basement!
I’m sure a lot of viewers here will be able to share stories of cashiers thinking a $2 bill or an older ( early 90’s era ) regular bill were counterfeit.
I tried to pay for some Subway with a 1980’s $5 and the manager called mall security on me, which was annoying at best.
I've had cashiers reject $2 bills, as well. If memory serves, there was a man somewhere in the US who was arrested for using them. The cashier thought they were fake, and the cop that was called to the scene had never heard of them, either.
Oof
Yup that's the story I was gonna tell. I got handed an old lincoln right after my boss told me that there was counterfeit money being spent at stores like ours, and it took a bit of googling for me to accept the man was telling the truth.
I felt awful, but thankfully he just chuckled and left.
wow u reply to people
It's always 1$ coins that get people. Those and 50 cent pieces. My dad gets them at his job so if in with him when he pays then there's always a fuss
0:20 so the current $100 started as a April fools joke.
XD
lmao
Reddit moment
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lmfao
i bought a fake $1 bill for $10 and now my friends think i have a dollar hahaa
Lol
stolen joke
a croissant
r/ihavereddit
stonks
a croissant r/woooosh
Can I buy the 100 from you for 0.12$ then?
SogWaffle $0.12
Hell, I'm willing to offer $0.15 so he at least has a healthy profit margin.
Hans I’m gonna have to offer $0.17 for that
@@Killroy3022 im offering $112
@@stewieroided3437 why did you have to ruin it?
"Announced on April 1st 2010" Hmmmmm....
It's just a prank, bro! Chillax!
It took longer than expected to get enough perfect bills to begin circulation. The blue strip often gets caught during production.
kohakuaiko r/wooosh
@@invisibilius1978 no. No whoosh here just mad facts
Ban All Pineapples
Plot Twist: ALL MONEY is counterfiet because it’s just a prank bro
"these two were actually never elected"
The 10 dollar
Founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder
yes
By being a lot smarter by being a self starter by 14
They placed him in charge of a trading charter
And everyday while slaves were being slaughtered and chartered away, across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up, I side he was longing for something to be apart of the brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter
Daniah The great then a hurricane came, devastation rained,
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Nathan Cooper the man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
As a cashier A customer tried to pay me with a "counterfeit $20" it really wasn't counterfeit since the part where it should say "the United States of America" said "motion pictures" I even read the part where it should say this note is legal tender, but it specifically said it's not legal tender and it's from motion pictures. The poor lady got embarrassed after showing her that, but thankfully she had her card and paid off her merchandise.
Lmai
WooferJr Lmao she probably gave someone change and that person fucked her over
Oof
They do that for all movie prop money, it's never real money just faked with a clear (but tiny) label saying it's not legal tender
Movie money is also usually 10 to 20 % larger bills than real money so as to avoid counter fitting laws. Big enough to avoid the law, small enough to not be noticed on screen
Austin flexing his squarespace sponsorship dollars smh 🙄
He's demonstrating the security features smh
Groves 😂😂😂😂😂
Mohamed Muhsin Sultan whooosh
Groves 😥😓😅 it's the best I could do
Just Drake shit I was gonna say the same thing
Your videos are always so wonderfully explained with graphics!! This was amazing!! Look forward to every upload man.
What are you doing here?
Wow cowbelly
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*H O L Y S H I T*
What an unexpected guest.
This dude lowkey just told us how to make a counterfeit 100 dollar bill
If you have the resources for it
@@DJstarrfish Well I mean who doesn't have 12 cents?
@@IUndercoverTroll i have 8 american pennies, about 5 canadian pennies, and some pocket lint, is that enough?
A counterfeiter would know all that fact already, it doesn't made a differences.
An average person wouldn't have access or resources to make a convincing counterfeit bill anyway.
In short.. this reveal almost nothing to a counterfeiter, but present a good deal of information for average person how to spot fake bill.
It's not the knowledge of the security measures, but rather replicating them without precisely knowing how they're made. Because that's the classified information, not the measures themselves.
Here in Australia, we have plastic, colourful notes, with holographic parts. The plastic is for strength so they don’t rip when going through the wash, the colour and holographic is for looks, but the holographic would also make it difficult to counterfeit.
Here in Brasil every bill has a diferent size and color with a national animal in the front and a portrait of princess Isabel on the back, they are just the loveliest tints of blue pink and yellow
In Romania we have plastic colory notes too. They are just beautiful
Same in Canada
Oh kay?
Here in America we trick our people into thinking our bills are made of paper
One time at work someone handed me a fake $100 for a coffee and some donuts. It just didnt even feel like money. It felt like thicc monopoly money. My manager came over said "Sir this is counterfeit, we've notified the authorities and they would like to have a talk with you" The guy acted like he didnt know, apologized, left the bill with us and then left the store.
That's why you don't counterfeit 50s and 100s. Stick with lower denominations.
@@stargateproductions that's why I teach new hires to watch the 10s and 20s.
That's what most counterfeiters do. They realize they've been caught and just walk out. Only the stupid ones throw a fit.
to be fair, there is a chance he genuienly didn't know and someone gave it to him. slim chance but its there
lol. Im just the 125th version
This feels like an apple ad for a 100 dollar bill
I used to work night shift at a gas station just outside Cleveland and I came across several counterfeit bills in my time there. Most of the time it's not a big deal, they honestly don't realize it's fake and they had just gotten it in change from another store or as payment for something and had no idea themselves. They always apologized and paid with another bill. Never had anybody I actually thought was trying to pull one over on us. But there was one instance that stood out as especially funny.
One of my regulars was a nanny for a fairly wealthy family. She'd always stop by late at night, usually having just left the family's house after watching the kids while the parents were on a date night or whatnot. Well one night she stopped in and asked if I could make change for a $100, as she the family hadn't had anything smaller to pay her with. The moment she handed it to me it felt weird, and when I looked at the bill I had to do a literal double-take. It was *actual* movie money! One of the fake bills they use as props when shooting movies! It was so strange, because you could clearly tell if you looked at it that it was just slightly wrong in every aspect. It was a little too thick, a little too wide, the portrait was slightly askew, the numbers weren't quite in the right place...everything was just *slightly* off so it was almost surreal looking at it. On the back of the bill, at the top where it normally says "United States of America", it instead said "NOT LEGAL TENDER: FOR MOVIE USE ONLY."
The look of horror on her face when I said it was fake was priceless! XD She looked like she was about to break down and started panicking, until I started laughing. Then she was just confused. I handed her the bill back and said "didn't you tell me that father you nanny for works in the film industry? I think he gave you a prop bill by accident." We had a good laugh, but she didn't have anything else on her to pay with, so I just told her not to worry about it. She was a regular, so I said she could take her stuff and just pay for it next time she came in. We joked about that bill for months afterwards. ^_^
About a year ago, my friend tried to pay for something at a convenience store with a $5 bill he got from a tip at his job. The cashier noticed something odd, and it turned out to be counterfeit. The police were called, and my friend was put into handcuffs until he managed to explain where he got it and how he didn't know it was fake.
Seems a bit extreme to cuff someone for a 5 dollar fake.
stargateproductions Not really, when you realize 5 is most likely not the only counterfeit bill they have.
Or if they printed a few hundred 5ers
Why did the person even tip? Would have been less trouble for both of them.
@@benji272 ya but if you submit a fake 100 to the bank they dont arrest you they just take it
Pfft... paper money is worthless
Everyone knows that Robux is the top currency
nah b club penguin coins are better
WHAT ABOUT VBUCKS?
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At least it isn't bitcoin
Dogecoin.
Minecoin. I mean, how else are you going to get the Star Wars Skin Pack 5?
Hey Austin! Here is a counterfeit story: When I was in the boy scouts, one of our leaders worked for the Secret Service and at one point he thought it would be fun to give us a tour of where he worked. Now, making a government building interesting to a bunch of 13-year-olds is hard. But one way they spiced it up was taking us into a room and passing around about $10K of confiscated counterfeit money. Some of it was convincing, but there were also all kinds of hilarious printing errors: Bills that weren't aligned right, wrong colors, faces looking the wrong way, a lot of it was printed on plain paper, others were printed on bleached bills of smaller amounts, all kinds of crazy stuff. They then followed it up by explaining in detail to us teenagers, exactly how one would go about making a decent counterfeit. (this was before a lot of the new security features). I think the guy was used to giving this talk to law enforcement. It was probably the most interesting field trip I ever had.
It’s a little thought out for a counterfeit story. How long did it take you to think of all the bullshit?
Nice you came up with it, but its fake, because you cant Just get a tour in a government building, let alone one of a secret service.
Same! So what happened was my dad is a secret service person thing and he took is 2 billion dollar jet flew it into the whitehouse and i got to see around the place! It was really cool oh yea and also he showed me every single government building without having to go through any security and nobody questioned it. I then took a tank blew into the pentagon launched nukes to north korea and then I flew the tank to space blew up the satellite and we then got to see the counterfeit bills.
@@private2985 i walked into the pentagon butt naked screaming allahu akbar and nothing happened
Jon Klein
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I remember the first time I saw the new $100 , I was serving tables and thought it was fake
"That mich money can't be real"
😂
New bills with even smaller amounts looked different also confused me. How are we supposed to detect counterfeit if it does not look like it used to?
I think something most people dont consider is that US money is very VERY poorly designed for visually impaired/blind people. The Euro bills etc are different sizes as are the coins, no such luck for US blind people. I think when they re-design them, size and feel should come into play.
S△M same here in the uk the £ Notes are all different sizes, £5, £10, £20, £50 and they’re also made of plastic and are crazy strong
TagDelta 915 But there are Braille marks for blind people and the plastic design on the uk notes stop them from tearing once when so they aren’t that bad also they all are different sizes so what are you talking about
@@Aron-ru5zk £20 and £50 are still made of paper. And the fabric notes are really strong too.
I've had older people try to pay and they hand me the wrong coins/bills or hand me way too much (like a $10 transaction and they hand me $5 AND a $20) I always tell them if they handed me to much or the wrong currency and they appreciate it
Polish zloty bills for example have raised shapes like squares triangles and circles in the corner to help blind people, also the actual number is raised and they're thinking of redesigning it with braille one day. Any of these would be a good idea to implement on the US dollar
my parents owned a pizza restaurant when i was a kid/teen. i'll never forget the day the police came in and ask my mom if someone had been in and paid with a $50.00. She said yes, and showed the officer the bill. its counterfeit he said, and asked us which way they went. as a 12 yr old this was very exciting.
ZMan1471
Yeah but with higher bills, it is less likey. It could still happen but less likey.
ZMan1471 it could easily be abused.
Derk Cast the way my family’s pizza restaurant is able to test counterfeits is to see if our gambling machines accept the bill. They have up to date technology to detect fakes. If my machine accepts it then we’re all good
ZMan1471
I see what you mean.
Thanks now I can make the perfect copy
Holy shit your name is perfect for this
*FBI Open Up*
*CIA Open Up*
*Uhhh Idk open up*
Your Mom Open Up
"Young me would love to have one of these in his hands."
Me a 21 year old still dreaming about that 100 dollar bill...
When I used to deliver pizzas, somebody paid for a $15 Pizza with a $100 bill that was lopsided, felt like regular printer paper, and had a water mark that said for display use only. Yeah I didn't give him his pizza
Bad move. You wouldn't have gotten to tell your boss you were able to collect the money either way, but at least if you had given him his pizza and paid for it with your own money, the guy wouldn't have called your boss angrily about your behavior and you wouldn't have gotten fired. Would you rather lose $15 or your job?
Francisco Manuel Sánchez Rubio Why would his boss fire him for not acceptimg counterfeit money?
@@TrigramThunder Whuuut. Let me get this straight. You expect the delivery dude to pay for someone else's food? Especially when that customer tried to scam him with fake bucks??
What kind of manipulative logic is this. That's just gonna encourage the scammer to do the same thing again, and take advantage of other delivery guys who don't know any better. Tf?? People in that reallyyy low-income job need the money too. Are you serious??
@@TrigramThunder What utter nonsense. So the guy has to pay for someone's food to keep his job? Doing your job should never cost you anything. If, in the course of my job I need to pay even a tiny amount for something, I claim it back from the company. No one should ever be out of pocket in order to do a job. Don't know about you but I work to make money, not spend it.
@@grahamlive yeah that's all very fine and dandy but this dude lost his job. the customer would have given him a fake bill either way, so unless he could convince the customer to pay with real money, he was to face the loss himself or lose the job, and the latter happened. I'm not defending having to pay money in the course of your work, but in these unfortunate circumstances, it was by far the easiest way out of this problem that didn't cost you your job.
I actually like the u.s dollar design. It looks unique and grounded. Idk, I just like how it looks.
Ada Rose
same here (as an australian)
I want colorful money so registers look like rainbows
Isaac Lee fair, but Hamilton
Double Slash think of all the money used for colored ink...
yeah when us westerners think of money we have that classic usa note image so i like it. im from australia tho and i gotta say, our colourful plastic money is where its at. same with canada
I work at boost mobile, at least once a week someone trashes a store because they have a fake bill, that they “didn’t know”. But by the way they watch me test it with the marker, look for the water mark, and feel for the raised printing. They get very irritated very quick.
I found a counterfeit one dollar coin, the golden one. It was missing a date and a lot of other smaller details, it was also a lot lighter.
Weird. Wonder how those are even made. CNC maybe?
Why would somebody counterfeit a non collectible coin
@@braindeadgaming808 Maybe to use in arcade machines or something, i dunno.
@@opossumontheinternet9864 xd why not rob a chukee-cheese its not like they have armed gaurds
@@braindeadgaming808 you jerk i robbed a chuck e cheese and got shot by a 6 yr old and got pizza stuffed in my gunshot wound
*No dollars were harmed in the making of this video*
no u
+Atoku County Emergency Services Make me bitch
And here I thought this video would show me how to get $100 for 12 cents.
That was my fault and my happiness is gone
My dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Same
Same 😂
But people are still allowed to use old bills. Can I just counterfeit and use early, less secure versions of money (hypothetical)?
yui kol hypothetically, yes. But people are often more suspicious of money they aren't familiar with. Other people in the comments of stories of old money being not accepted or heavily scrutinized if they haven't seen that bill before.
I work in a coffee shop and have been told to just accept anything I haven't seen even if I haven't seen it before. That being said I'd definitely check with someone else if a $200 bill came through. But a $3 bill? Meh, whatever, probably just a new type of bill.
That was my immediate thought too. When I visited the US recently, I had a $100 bill that was at least 15 years old (my parents had kept it after a vacation years ago) but it was accepted without question. It was in perfect condition (still fresh from the currency exchange) and so it seems more plausible that counterfeiters would just copy the old bills.
Here in the UK, we have a brief overlap (a few months) before old bills are no longer accepted in general circulation. You can still exchange them at the Bank of England forever, and most regular banks will take them too, but shops won't.
@@subbyneko Wow, technically 2 dollar bills are still legal currency.
Not even technically, they just are.
Dr Gore
If there was a new type of bill, there'd be big news about it, so you'd be asking to get fired.
There used to be this trend on “tiktok” where they cut open the place where the security thread is and they would pull it out making said 5,10,50,100 dollar bill worthless
So if it takes .12 to make 100 how much does it cost to make .12
-12 cents. duh
Panda Man nice job
@@garrettelliott5849 problem is that pennies aren't copper
21.84 assuming its bought only with pennies
100.00$
0:54, you state that one reason american bank notes dont look flashy is that they have to accommodate security features, yet many countries have really good security features and have good looking notes (ie my country australia)
Australian people live upside down
Neobubzy Thats because it uses polymer, a technology Australia invented.
roasted
God of Light nice try, australia doesn’t exist
I think its because no one good enough to make good counterfiet bills wastes their time on Canadian or Australian bills.
So if I pay $12 can I get $10000
No?
r/wooosh
@@lilyliao9521 r/woosh
It’s actually four Os, guys.
r/woooosh
oh shit
I once had like 20 of the old 2 dollar bill, tried to buy something with one,and got security called to verify the bill
I hope our new bills end up like those waterproof canadian ones.
ahem have you seen the british ones?
@@andrewwilliams5546 I have to agree there
They are waterproof
They have their fair-share of problems, mainly they stick together a lot and they don't really EVER unfold
I mean, US bills are waterproof. Ever put cash in the washing machine?
Story time: I work at Chick-fil-A, and on my first day, with my 1st or 2nd customer ever a lady attempted to order a small soda with a counterfeit $20, but we have to use counterfeit pens so we caught it thankfully
Matthew Merovitz did she get arrested? thats a felony lol least she could get is like 6-7 years to 12
It depends on if she knew it was counterfeit or not. Counterfeiters rely on ignorance to keep their business alive, and going after someone who is unknowingly in possession of counterfeit is a lot like arresting someone just because they have a few microgrames of cocaine on them.
GBE 300 She pretended she just got it from the bank. The manager didn't keep it she let the lady take it back.
That isn't legal for a manager to do. It has to be taken out of circulation by a federal employee.
@Andrew Lopez What's Chick-fil-A,I only speak KFC
No but seriously we don't have those here.
I remember someone on the street in New York wanted to exchange a 10 dollar bill for change to buy stuff at the store. I related and gave him my two fives. Nothing too bad and the guy left. But immediately when he left, I felt that the bill didn't feel right and felt very weird. I held it to the light and sure enough there was no watermark showing Hamilton. I immediately went up to the guy and didn't directly confront him about the counterfeit. I just said "Hey I just remembered I need to owe this guy $5 and I need the change back so I can pay him" I remember when he was giving me the change he was shaking so badly, but I didn't raise anything. I remember walking away and crossing the street and he said something about the bill not being fake, but I pretended I didn't know anything.
You were being to nice to him, probably should have called him out so he couldn’t scam people less observing than you
ZMan1471 bro the reason shits up 300% is because all our money is fake and it's in a delicate balance that will soon fall
Jake Mitch lol never a thought an American citizen would actually say that, even though it's true the dollar like any other type of paper money has no value. I have to give it to the US for making a mockery over the world with the dollar.
Hamzahghazi they have us convinced it's of value while the rich run away with the real riches
Hamzahghazi it's not just America that's like that. The people of earth have been conned by the rich assholes.
I work in retail and often count and submit the cash from previous days in the mornings. We found about $400 in fake bills that were really convincing. I don't remember what year they were but the only reason we figured out they were fake was because we count bills by weight on a scale, and the fake bills were lighter than the legit ones. The drawer they were in kept coming up $40 dollars short, and we were pretty confused when hand counting the money gave us the correct amount.
0:43 where is that cool-ass vertical bill from?
CheesecakeLasagna Switzerland 🇨🇭
CheesecakeLasagna switzerland 🇨🇭 yees, love my country
Cool? Looks top crowded for me
Soon Canada
pewdiepie country
Two videos, two days.
I love it.
Canada and Australia has the best looking and plastic bills
Zain Rashid oh ya
Zain Rashid Singapore's are nice too
Everybody knows the bullshitington bills are the greatest
KiLLiT Singapore is nice too but it’s paper
Suggestion. Check out the Trinidad and Tobago $50 and $100 bill. :)
When I worked at Sonic, we had someone try to pay for their food with a fake 10. Except it wasn’t a counterfeit bill, it was for movie production. It even said on the bill that it was not legal tender. I don’t think they knew it was fake, but it was hilarious.
One time I found a 20$ bill in my back yard and I was very excited and I got the police called on me when I tryed to use it I was so scared.
Woah a year ago
@@liguow Woah a day ago
@@Cazterli woah a week ago
@@rmeows5087 woah a 28 minutes ago
@@Cazterli woah 5 hours ago because i was too lazy too respond when i first got the notif
Your videos are so fantastic.
You're like VSauce but less sciency, the news but less current, animators but not animated- well, for the most part.
You get the idea.
lol k weirdo
So basically veritasium.
Do you not add salt to your food when you’re cooking? Or do you not cook at all? Lol
@@MrVue what?
Vsauce has a significantly higher content quality and invests more time in fact checking and accuracy
As a bank teller, I thought this video was very interesting and informative. Keep up the great work!
For an Art project at a school, I recreated lifelike dollar bills which were used to adorn a textile piece. I created over 400 of these bills which all featured the black and green ink on the off-white bill.
The headmistress of the school, who had been a frequent traveler to the United States was shocked to see so many dollars used in an art project, never once suspecting they were fake. She asked how much it had cost in dollars to create. She was embarrassed to hear they were not real.
I even used paper that was a little thicker than normal for the ‘bills’.
Compared to other banknotes ... ours ... they just aren't very flashy. There are a number of reasons for this. Tradition playing probably the biggest role, but another important factor is security. [...] The designers of this modern version had to find a way to seamlessly blend the classic design that citizens were familiar with, while mitigating a slew of new security features."
Makes it sound like tradition is the only reason for a non flashy redisign as a complete redisign would make it easier to incorporate the security features without having to work around the old designfeatures.
how is your wife holding up after the dumbledore thingy?
She left him.
Wat
@@wistfulherbz
LMAO 😂
Look at Canadian Money. It looks great, very secure, water proof, tear/cut proof and doesn't burn!
There is like 3 people and 5 moose up there in Canada why do they need money when they can trade syrup the most valuable thing in the world. I would love to see someone try to eat a bar of gold on their pancakes and tell me it tastes good.
It's Monopoly money.
Eddie Butkaliuk
don’t forget that it’s made so that blind people could also read it with their hands 👌
Inan Chowdhury no it isn’t
@@bugstarwarriorcats8933 Yes it is.
Hey thanks for this video. All of the security features tells me that I’m not doing a great job. Thank you for telling me what I need to do better.
I only have a single $5 bill I got from my uncle who was in the US because he works as a mechanic on cruiseships, no idea if it's fake, exchanging it for usable currency doesn't seem worth the effort, so instead I've folded it in a way that it appears to be Lincoln with some sort of pope's hat.
Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer it’s probably not fake. Nobody counterfeits $5 bills, only the big $50s, $20s, and $100s.
@@RyBrown that mentality causes $5 notes to go easily unchecked, and as a result easier to get away with counterfeiting them...
Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer Who would counterfeit a $5 bill when people can counterfeit 50s just as easily. Obviously your not from the US as you only have a US $5 bill (I don’t mean that as an insult) but a counterfeit $5 isn’t going to make a scratch compared to all the money in circulation. True, somebody might counterfeit a $5 bill but that would be a massive waste of time compared to more value counterfeiting a $50, $20, or $100.
@@RyBrown yeah I'm not from the US (and luckily so if I gather all the shit going on over there), but that should be completely irrelevant. Whether we're talking about $5 £5 or €5 they're close enough in value to be comparable.
The reason why someone might counterfeit low denomination notes (and of course, they would still do it in larger batches, not just a single note) is because be of the common assumption that only higher denominations will be worth counterfeiting. Because of that assumption, low denomination notes are rarely checked, and thus a low denomination counterfeit can slip under the radar much easier than a high denomination counterfeit.
Higher denominations might be more profitable per resource cost, but they also come with larger risk
Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer I’m not going to argue because I believe that point of views are ok
Thanks for listing off all the things I gotta do to forge, thanks bb
Can we all remember that Australia not only introduced the advanced security features shown in the video back in the 80's, but they were also more advanced to begin with (colour differentiation and polymer construction being the biggest advantages). And I know many other nations now have advanced notes equal to Australia's, but the RBA was the one who invented a lot of this technology and pioneered the modern standard for money (which the US is still not meeting XD) - which they then licence to other nations.
No hate to Austin, it's just strange seeing someone try to tell us how great the US notes are when their cash security technology is decades behind other nations.
Canada's done the same too
@@VexinatorDesigns "anti USA" give me likes
VexinatorDesigns yea I live in Australia and when travelling Ive always thought any other countries notes feel cheap and shitty, especially America's. No hate tho lol
VexinatorDesigns In the video he said the security measures were hard to implement while still keeping the bill similar to the old ones so I’m not surprised US currency isn’t on par with other countries.
Alternate Title: Things To Know Before Counterfeiting
i was once waiting in taco bell when a classmate ordered a meal. he gave the cashier a 20$ bill and i could see that it was an obvious fake. he was from a different country and just had recently moved to the states so i’m sure that he didn’t know that he had the counterfeit. the cashier looked at him and told him that he wouldn’t accept the money because it was fake and i had felt the largest second hand embarrassment for him because he kept on looking back at me. if i didn’t have a bad history with him, i would’ve paid the meal but i just watched while he walked out of taco bell.
Hey don’t diss my boy Alexander for not getting elected
Treasury Secretary, Washington's the president.
And the bastard who pushed for a centralized bank
The Reynolds Pamphlet
You pay money to make money...seems logical.
kirby march Barcena how do you think they get materials from? the sky? they have to pay for them
@@Kaan-Yaprak Go find another one to argue with.
You're paying for a piece of material that represents money, not money itself.
Leafy has a point though, you don't pay for the money but for the material required to produce it.
@@toph72548 They still have to pay those who provide the materials and these are not free.
I work in fast food and it’s our rule to not except £50 notes because they are really rare and easy to forge, this women handed one to me and I told her we aren’t allowed to take them and she started an argument because “it’s got the queens face on it so we have to accept it” despite telling her the rules, she even threatened to call the police
The funniest part of money is that the majority of US currency is digital
MCFPapa no
You still need gold/notes to represent that digital currency.
Yeah actually only 2-10% of money is tangible. If you deposit 1000 dollars into the bank it doesn’t stay in the bank for you to go and pick it up. It gets given to the next person who wants to withdraw money.
@@ElijahCem no shit sherlock
Yep I very rarely carry cash money these days with my paychecking being automatic deposit, so I just pull out my check card, and pay that way, and I don't withdraw cash unless I know I'm going thrifting someplace like a flea market, or something like that which is only a few times a year for me. so basically most of my money is just numbers in a digital system.
I hardly ever handle cash bigger the a 20. So I didn't know more then the basic stuff about the 100$ bill. So the security for it is pretty bad ass.
I knew about it, but I'm like you since I no longer work retail I rarely ever handle bills larger than $20, as I'm usually using my check card, or credit card when paying for something, and if I need cash which is rare these days, my credit union's ATM only spits out 20's, and 10's.
Was once handed a counterfeit 5 dollar bill. My manager gave it back and told the guy to return it to where he got it, because it wasn’t a large bill.
I used to manage a movie theater. One night when cashing out a box office attendant, there was a fake 100 in their drawer. Someone had photo-copied the bill, and then used a glitter glue on the bell and blue security strip. 🤦♀️
Ahahahahah 0:45 “vijfentwintig gulden” mate gulden is an old dutch currency that isn’t even used anymore
My thoughts exactly
The design is pretty sweet though
Old Dutch money is still 1000x prettier than any US banknote.
missed the point, dude!
Our old money was soooooo pretty. I hope the people who designed the Gulden bills will once be allowed to design the euro bills.
I have never seen a counterfeit dollar as of yet, however, a few years ago my uncle was trying to pay something expensive, and when he was taking too long to take the money out, he joked saying "Excuse me, it sometimes sticks together when recently printed" scarying the seller.
some old man where i work usually pays with cash from 1966, and it's all crisp bills..
haven't had any trouble depositing them, but it's curious..
We call that "mattress money" at work. As in "Gramma had it stashed in her mattress".
I use to work at a gas station back in high school in the late 90's, and I had 1 old lady in her late 80's at the point who use come in the store just to get out of her house, and would use money from the 50's and 60's she had saved when her husband had worked a "Big Government Job" which is all she would say about it(I live near a former Nuke bomb plant, and now a waste site), and she would always get 2 cans of Navy Snuff, and 2 cokes in glass bottles. Always took her time to look around the store, but always the same order. Man now I wish I had kept a few of those 5, 10, and 20 bills for my collection of coins, and bills.
4:39 that is not Ben Franklin that is totally canny Mr. Incredible
Canadian bills are the best because you never have to worry about them accidently getting wet and becoming soggy because they're literally made of plastic.
Eh?
Same in the UK
Dude its not just canada, most of the world uses plastic bills. Australia has been praised as having the best bills in the world because of their design and durability.
Concordski1231 by most of the world, I mean the first world i.e pretty much all of Europe and developed countries.
Is it true that Canadian bills smell like maple syrup?
What I understand is...
To make money, you need to have money. XD
It’s almost like it has value or something
a paradox
+Azizul Adnan
you don't, actually. literally anything can be money, including seashells, pebbles, metals etc. money is only worth something because people agree it's worth something. if you didn't want to pay anything for money, you could use something like pine cones, but then you would be missing on the fancy anti-counterfeiting technology you'd get if you spent $0.12 for that $100 bill.
+Caleb Razzleberry
"It’s almost like it has value or something"
assuming you are correct, the $100 bill would only be worth $0.12, because it only costs $0.12 to produce one.
the thing is, that $100 bill is just a piece of paper that has no intrinsic value whatsoever. the entirety of the value currency holds comes from the agreement of the people who use that currency.
Once I was moving some old stuff and found a perfect looking pre 2010 $100 bill that had everything correct, accept, when held up to a light, the hologram inside was of Abraham Lincoln and not Ben Franklin, which seemed odd. I looked it up and the exact bill was one of 300 Chinese counterfeit tests
Huh, when I was a cashier at Walmart we were taught to always check 20's for the watermark portrait (possibly higher denominations too, though I can't remember for certain), but we weren't ever told to make sure it's the correct face. I remember some of the 20's were so worn that I couldn't really make out the watermark, leading to some awkward moments, since that was the only way they taught us to verify them.
Also, when I first saw the new 100 bill, I thought it was play money. I still think it looks silly compared to the dull green of the other bills.
when are they gonna change the design of the $1 bill omfg
I don't think people really counterfeit 1s too much so the government wouldn't want to put valuable resources into developing a new one
@@jacklobeck9656 eh, but in my country they change the design for 100 coin (the smallest currency in my country) why America don't?
America still has $1 notes? WTF? Australia got rid of $1 and $2 notes in the 1990s and replaced them with coins.
@@coweatsman
Yeah and it's a pain in the ass when you have to carry 5 lbs of loose change in your pocket because you broke a 10.
I think the problem in Australia is the advanced technology of banknotes compared to the US and that means the notes would cost more than the 12c for a US banknote. So a $1 note in Australia hardly makes sense. Australia invented plastic money notes. Australia is now developing chips which will be embedded in banknotes which will expire the notes at a date preventing people from hoarding them.
Why did they announce the $100 bill on April Fools day? They must’ve thought it was a joke.
The government doesnt produce money, the federal reserve does! Let people know this its crucial
Wrong 2 times. The US Treasury produces money not the Federal Reserve and The Federal Reserve is the government.
@@ralBurebsuos You are correct about who prints money, however you are incorrect about the Federal Reserve being part of the government. They are a private entity.
I remember when my dad used to run a print shop next to a small store. Whenever I was with him, he used to give me money to get stuff from there. When I bought stuff from there, the guy running the store used to check the money to make sure it was real lol.
The guy got arrested later on for EBT Fraud.
I dont care about flash. Durability is more important
Yeah but the point of more 'intersting' designs is for people who are visually impaired. Ideally it they should be completely different sizes/textures for people who are completely blind
Having an interesting design doesn't mean that a note is less durable. What are you talking about? That's a false dichotomy.
The turkish one seem so lose value pretty quickly
The point is to give counterfeit money printers less time to have all the new security designs to be figured out.
In canada, you are not able to cut,rip any bill if you are able to you are an body builder or was before somehow. Also if you cant see you can use the colors
Thanks for the excellent tutorial for how to avoid getting caught using counterfeit money!
I've never had a counterfeit 100 dollar bill ever, well I've never had a 100 bill, ever actually.🤔
I've had a $100 Bill once
Nick Robinson?
Fun fact for anyone who doesn't already know, it costs about 2¢ to make a penny and almost 7¢ to make a nickel
“I would like to buy your penny for 2 cents”
I'll pay you *13¢* for that $100 bill and not a penny more 😏
AND IM TAKING A RISK.
Dang that’s 0.5 cents more than manufacturing price! That’s too much!
The emoji ruined the joke
werts18 you ruined the joke
GOLDENMORAL CINEMAS no u
In terms of world currencies, the security features on US bank notes are kinda rudimentary. There's absolutely no reason they can't change the basic dull design.
burningphoneix
What do you mean by "rudimentary"? Show so examples of better security features.
The most obvious new security feature is polymer or hybrid polymer bank notes that are much harder to counterfeit. They also allow completely transparent "windows" that make it even harder to duplicate. Check out Canada's new 10 dollar note for an example.
The swiss banknotes are some of the best in the world, with a counterfeit ratio 10x lower than USD, and 5x lower than EUR.
The Swiss National Bank has a little presentation on the (advertised) security features for the 8th series: www.snb.ch/en/iabout/cash/series8/id/cash_series8_security
The 9th series notes that are currently being rolled out have even more.
burningphoneix
Source?
Answer: The Jackson Five.
Question: What’s the easiest counterfeit bill to detect?
funny
I’m from Toronto, Canada. At the time, I was banking with BMO (Bank of Montreal, big mistake) and I was converting some US bills. They processed the bills without issue, except for a single $1 bill. They looked at it under UV, used the special counterfeit marker, and even called over the manager. Eventually, they informed me this bill was most likely counterfeit. The teller then proceeded to hand the suspected counterfeit bill back to me. I was shocked in the moment, so I took the bill back.
Since when can a bank return suspected counterfeit money? I still have it in my safe as a “souvenir”, I guess.
Kinda hard working with fakes, there's not enough time to check all the bills efficiently when you have other costumers 😣
very late, but, here in the netherlands cashiers have a small scanner they can put the money through and it will tell you if its real or fake.
thank you for telling me how to make the perfect counterfeit dollar
Now try to make it for less than 100 bucks a piece. Good luck.
Waffle... But these are known things. Literally anyone can see them. But good luck on trying to copy this design EXACTLY.
“made of paper”
ok thanks for attending my ted talk
1:50
Well, this doesn't even function as a joke
I received a $2 bill as a tip yesterday, got fascinated and started searching for RUclips videos, and I was recommended this video as a result. I very much appreciate the fact you had a $2 on that table.
Waiting for Justin Y. To comment...
No. No really
Error in the Code lol
Error in the Code I’m waiting too
Who?
(@ Ivan Alekseyev) A RUclips account that seems to be everywhere. He's in a pretty wide range of different-content comment sections.
0:03 late 20s something me would still one day like to hold that kind of money.
There goes my future counterfeiting career
👀
my school has a cafeteria where you can buy stuff once they gave me a fake bill for change like just casually _here is your fake money_