How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
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Published 2021-06-18
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All Comments (21)
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My favorite part about this channel is seeing what kinda crazy stock footage can make the cut. Like someone shot that footage of a monkey next to a pile of cash and thought “yeah… someone will pay for that” and then someone did
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Fun fact: in Hong Kong, they still allow certain banks, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, to print their own banknotes.
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The thing about the SuperDollar is, it's still viable, because not everyone has the latest bills, and there's no mandate to exchange them, besides banks. So they can still use all the mass produced ones stealthily.
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The counterfeiting problem was so bad in the 1860's that the Secret Service was created to deal with it.
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Bro, that plan by Germany was actually kinda solid. I had never thought that the most effective kind of bombs would be stacks of 100$ bills
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Why did they need to counterfeit when they could’ve emailed Raid: Shadow Legends for Sponsors?
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I used to be a bank teller (probably 2012-2013) and we did a lot of cash transactions at my branch. One day I got a deposit of a few thousand dollars from a local bar including lots of hundreds. I ran the stack through the counting machine (which had a counterfeit detection feature) and everything checked out. After I processed the transaction and was handling the money to place into my till... one of the $100s "didn't feel right." The new blue Benjamins had just been released but this bill was of the old type. I ran it through the machine again, clear. I marked it with the detector pen, clear. Showed it to my manager... who said, well, if it passed the checks then it should be ok. Thing was, it had this kind of waxy coating on it which I suspected was fooling the ink test. So I put a small tear in a corner, tested with the pen again, and sure enough it was a fake. I'm convinced it was one of these NK masterpieces. So we sent it to the secret service and that was the last I heard about it.
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So thanks to the vending machine lobby, the $1 is the easiest bill to counterfeit, and thanks to the vending machine in the lobby, the $1 bill is the most useful bill to counterfeit. Neat!
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People, before you start commenting about no sponsor, there is literally a hello fresh link in the description
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this is exactly why the restaurant I work with doesn't accept any of the old $100 bills at all..
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I haven't watched the full video but I'd like to point out something. In my area there was just a massive bust over fake 10 dollar bills. They had proper ink color and correct kind of fiber feel that's all. None of the special security features. It's estimated that over 100k of fake 10 bills were being circulated. All because Noone not even I who accepted several of them at my gas station takes the time to check a 10 more than make sure it feels right and looks right. If you counterfeit a 10. Noone besides a bank will take the time to tell the difference. I check 50s and 100s. And I check 20s if they are an old looking denomination or are too crisp. But who thinks to check 10 dollar bills under the light
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starts furiously taking notes no, no, this is just a science project
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I’m going to use my superdollars to not buy hello fresh but instead pay to win Raid Shadow Legends.
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Hello Fresh is extremely expensive. The same products at the grocery store are less than 1/3 the cost and you don't have to wait for the food nor get extremely small portions.
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My late uncle was an ambassador for my country in North Korea around the time this superdollars was out. I still remember he told me that during that time he doesn't accept USD in any transactions and prefers to use GBP or EURO instead (I don't remember which one) because he said there's lots of fake usd in circulation. And I happy that you covered this because the 12 years old me before wondered how can there be so many fake money in circulation to the point even government officials don't want to accept it
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No… this can’t be…. An HAI video without a sponsor at the beginning? This is impossible, this must be a facade! They must’ve been hacked! Sam are you okay??? Have you been captured?
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Why make a fake dollar bill when you can just pump out another half as interesting episode while holding Wendover Sam hostage.
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if we have perfect superdollars than we wouldn't know that we had perfect superdollars
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One of the most common ways we'd see counterfeits at the retail level was the bleaching of 1's or 5's and printing 20's or 100's on them. That way they had the right "paper" but the watermark was wrong. The thing is during busy times, cashiers can't take the time (or forget) to check all the bills that go thru their hands. The holiday shopping season was the best time for counterfeiters.