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If you could counterfeit money easily, would you? (1 Viewer)

If you could counterfeit money easily, would you?

  • Yes, just once to try it but that is it

    Votes: 4 4.8%

  • Yes, I would systematically counterfeit a large sum of money each year

    Votes: 43 51.2%

  • No way

    Votes: 37 44.0%
  • Total voters
    84
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Lets say "easily" means you just buy a special type of paper, throw it into your printer and print out any denomination you want and cut the bills out.
You assume the risk of moving the dirty money but lets just say buying the ink/paper for your printer would not draw attention form anyone.

If you voted the 2nd option, what kind of criminal would you be?

Print out 100k and wash it into clean money with someone "dirty" in return for 50k clean as a 1 time thing?

Print out 20's for the next few years as spending cash.

?

 
It gets harder and harder to spend cash. No way I would want to be option 2, one strike, but a big one would be the only play for me. Fortunately I'm not in a position to be tempted by such an 'option'

 
If my choices are a one-time $50k score or years of passing bills, I'll quietly spend it $20 at a time.

 
First thought was hell yes but wouldn't want to screw over businesses by giving them worthless money.

Would only use the money at casino's...because f them.  

 
The Secret Service DOES NOT #### around with that ####. No thanks to anything counterfeit money.

Back in college, a friend who sold weed ended up with a fake $20. Used it at a gas station and then got arrested. After he was released from municipal jail, he had the Secret Service at his door. Hauled his ### off to some interrogation room and scared the #### out of him. Not wanting to discuss his marijuana dealings (where he had received the $ from), he makes up a story about a poker game. ####face has the nerve to throw 8 names under the bus. They literally hunted us all down one by one to interrogate the #### out of us. Each one of us broke in 3 seconds and rolled the guy under the bus for the weed (#### that, don't drag me into any Secret Service ####). They went back to him and he admitted his story was bull####. Supposedly they flat out told him they didn't give a #### about the selling weed. He gave up the person who he suspected gave up the money and they moved on to him. He never heard from them again.

They literally went from person to person to person hunting the origin of this bill. There was supposedly a bunch of them going around the area at the time and I guess this was as good a lead as they had. Unfortunately for them, it was just a bunch of morons who had nothing to do with counterfeit bills passing #### around as weed money, beer money, poker, etc. 

Never forget the dudes name, Special Agent Michler.

To answer your question, no ####### thanks to counterfeit money.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
The Secret Service DOES NOT #### around with that ####. No thanks to anything counterfeit money.

Back in college, a friend who sold weed ended up with a fake $20. Used it at a gas station and then got arrested. After he was released from municipal jail, he had the Secret Service at his door. Hauled his ### off to some interrogation room and scared the #### out of him. Not wanting to discuss his marijuana dealings (where he had received the $ from), he makes up a story about a poker game. ####face has the nerve to throw 8 names under the bus. They literally hunted us all down one by one to interrogate the #### out of us. Each one of us broke in 3 seconds and rolled the guy under the bus for the weed (#### that, don't drag me into any Secret Service ####). They went back to him and he admitted his story was bull####. Supposedly they flat out told him they didn't give a #### about the selling weed. He gave up the person who he suspected gave up the money and they moved on to him. He never heard from them again.

They literally went from person to person to person hunting the origin of this bill. There was supposedly a bunch of them going around the area at the time and I guess this was as good a lead as they had. Unfortunately for them, it was just a bunch of morons who had nothing to do with counterfeit bills passing #### around as weed money, beer money, poker, etc. 

Never forget the dudes name, Special Agent Michler.

To answer your question, no ####### thanks to counterfeit money.
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:ph34r: :unsure:  Can I change my answer after seeing this post?

 
I think one could argue that doing so would be a moral imperative,

I mean, yeah, it's stealing. But it's not a form of stealing that really harms anyone in particular, and if you put all the proceeds into buying malaria nets for children in Africa (and similarly effective causes), you'd be saving an awful lot of lives.

 
My family did it the smart way. They only faked $50 bills while their restaurant business was in the crapper. They had a seasonal place so in the off season they would print money for groceries and maintenance. The two kids in the family were always in trouble with the law but not for counterfeiting. We didn't really know them but we changed our name anyway as it was big local news. We go by the name Fraterney now.

 
Even if you had the perfect copy I don't see how, in this plastic/digital economy, you'd be able to move enough of without sounding alarms it to make it worth the risk.  

 
tonydead said:
Even if you had the perfect copy I don't see how, in this plastic/digital economy, you'd be able to move enough of without sounding alarms it to make it worth the risk.  
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1. Use counterfeit $ to buy drugs

2.? 

3. Profit! 

 
My first real job in the corporate world was at the cash vault of a major bank.  The Secret Service does not mess around with counterfeit bills. I was interviewed 3 times, and all I did was put the cash into a machine  to count it. 

 
tonydead said:
Even if you had the perfect copy I don't see how, in this plastic/digital economy, you'd be able to move enough of without sounding alarms it to make it worth the risk.  
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The obvious first step is to look up "money laundering" in the dictionary.

 
Buying all food, drink, auto/home repairs, clothes, furniture with fake cash spells early retirement.  So, yes.  

You dont need to get rich for this to be extremely awesome

 
As tempting as it sounds--I voted No Way.  The risk far outweighs the reward for me.   I don't live a glamorous life--but I live a fairly comfortable one--and I wouldn't want to risk it all for extravagent things.    Not only that--being a business owner and manager--I know lots of fellow business owners that have gotten screwed by counterfeit bills.   The reality of the situation is that at some point in the chain somebody will get screwed by counterfeit bills--and many times it's the hard working small business owners.  Small business owners have enough obstacles to deal with.  

 
jvdesigns2002 said:
As tempting as it sounds--I voted No Way.  The risk far outweighs the reward for me.   I don't live a glamorous life--but I live a fairly comfortable one--and I wouldn't want to risk it all for extravagent things.    Not only that--being a business owner and manager--I know lots of fellow business owners that have gotten screwed by counterfeit bills.   The reality of the situation is that at some point in the chain somebody will get screwed by counterfeit bills--and many times it's the hard working small business owners.  Small business owners have enough obstacles to deal with.  
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That's my thought.  I could see making a few 20s and give them if i got crappy service.  It would have to be a place I wouldn't return.  Really though I'd probably never spend it. 

 
You guys know that the Fed Reserve does this everyday.  The just make money from thin air.  This devalues every dollar you've ever earned.  No one bats an eye.

 
Just had a conversation at work last week about the "dilemma" at play here. One guy kicked it off by attempting to lecture us on why people follow laws. He basically said that people followed laws because they didn't want to pay the consequences. I told him that people with a moral compass follow laws because they are laws. Consequences are needed for people lacking a moral compass.

(climbs down from his high horse)

 
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glock said:
Just had a conversation at work last week about the "dilemma" at play here. One guy kicked it off by attempting to lecture us on why people follow laws. He basically said that people followed laws because they didn't want to pay the consequences. I told him that people with a moral compass follow laws because they are laws. Consequences are needed for people lacking a moral compass.

(climbs down from his high horse)
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He's right.

i bet you, like all of us, break several small laws each week because you can get away with it.

 
A friend of a friend in my highschool tried to do it once.  He took an image of a $50 and printed it out.  He tried to spend it at a gas station, but the employee there obviously saw it was a fake, and called him out on it.  The kid started freaking out and gave the employee his name and address.  Maybe a day or two later the secret service showed up and pulled him out of school for questioning, and pretty much scared the #### out of him. 

No thanks.

 
RokNRole said:
He's right.

i bet you, like all of us, break several small laws each week because you can get away with it.
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I think that depends on the calibration of your moral compass. ;) But he's not right. 

 
RokNRole said:
Moral compasses change based on circumstance.
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I'd argue that the size, frequency and convenience of said changes points toward the actual calibration of that person's moral compass.

 
glock said:
Just had a conversation at work last week about the "dilemma" at play here. One guy kicked it off by attempting to lecture us on why people follow laws. He basically said that people followed laws because they didn't want to pay the consequences. I told him that people with a moral compass follow laws because they are laws. Consequences are needed for people lacking a moral compass.

(climbs down from his high horse)
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That dude you work with is still emotionally immature.  He's at like Stage 2 of Kholberg's Theory of Moral Development (I think that's what's called, I'm referencing something I haven't looked at in 2 decades).  Anyways, there were like 6 stages, and this guy is operating at the most basic level, basically like a toddler.

I wouldn't go camping with him imo

 
(HULK) said:
That dude you work with is still emotionally immature.  He's at like Stage 2 of Kholberg's Theory of Moral Development (I think that's what's called, I'm referencing something I haven't looked at in 2 decades).  Anyways, there were like 6 stages, and this guy is operating at the most basic level, basically like a toddler.

I wouldn't go camping with him imo
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He's my bosses boss. Wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done, but he spouts off all of the time with gems like this. A guy can only take so much...

 
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