My grandfather worked in the Secret Service for quite a few years in the mid-50s, and he taught me quite a few things about fakes.
None of our counterfeit markers actually work anymore, the last time I tested one it marked a real bill as fake (wtf). People have been using them as normal pens. We have some gizmos that you can feed a bill into and it can test it, but those won't catch washed bills and also reads older real bills (and some newer ones) as fake so it's not clear what they test for and they're not actually being used anymore.
I have a counterfeit pen/blacklight, but that never leaves my person and I only bring it in if I hear there's a problem. Some years ago someone around here was counterfeiting singles...at the time I thought that was stupid, but after seeing how many people try to change small bills for large at checkout I see how it could work as well as the big ones (nobody ever checks singles).
None of our counterfeit markers actually work anymore, the last time I tested one it marked a real bill as fake (wtf). People have been using them as normal pens. We have some gizmos that you can feed a bill into and it can test it, but those won't catch washed bills and also reads older real bills (and some newer ones) as fake so it's not clear what they test for and they're not actually being used anymore.
I have a counterfeit pen/blacklight, but that never leaves my person and I only bring it in if I hear there's a problem. Some years ago someone around here was counterfeiting singles...at the time I thought that was stupid, but after seeing how many people try to change small bills for large at checkout I see how it could work as well as the big ones (nobody ever checks singles).
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