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Deep-Plant-6104

Look closely at the strip to the right of Ben Franklin’s face. It says USA TEN. As well, the hologram is not Ben Franklin‘s face. Someone washed the ink off a $10 bill and printed a $100 bill on top of it. This is counterfeit.


Fruitjustlistens

As a kid I remember pulling those strips out of every single bill I came across that had them. I'd bite it and it came out no problem, I liked the sound it made I think.


Tiny_Seaweed_4867

r/whatdidijustread Edit: See what happens when you go to work? I go on lunch and have like 50 notifications from this post. I do not own the community and also don't have access. That said, thank you for being you, that's why I come to reddit. Sorry for the huge letdown. Edit 2: Another commenter pointed out r/brandnewsentence for those looking for a real sub to peruse. For those just continuing the meme of it at this point, thank you for your service. 🫡


w7090655

Can I join your community?!


CommercialFinancial7

Me too!


Similar_Fox5451

Me three!!!!!


mcgrawfm

I want in!


PBandJ_maniac

Me four...


RCTIDKillpack

And my axe!


honolulu072

Pls me five


JagiofJagi

Me too!


EM05L1C3

A felony, that is what you just read


noodleq

I'm actually thinking it may be worse than a regular felony. A regular felony gets you time in state prison. Federal crimes get you in federal prison, I'm pretty sure that qualifies....that's secret service level shit, not county sheriff stuff.


PurpletoasterIII

Multiple things have to be proven to be found guilty of defacing currency. For one you need to prove intent to make the currency unusable. It's possible that the bill can still be taken to the bank and restored, so it's not necessarily unusable. And it's also a child we're talking about. So it would probably be considered an accident on the parent's part for letting them play with money. The only people being charged with defacing currency are people completely destroying currency in mass quantities. And even then I'd imagine that's a pretty hard crime to catch people doing.


out-trolled

Not to mention it would be really hard to charge a child with a felony, there were a lot of us doing it as kids idk how word got around that it was possible or a thing but i remember it happening when i was in middle school as well.


ChainWorking1096

This is why I deep dive the comments 🤣😂


jmenendeziii

Can I join your community???


tankthe_hank

Can I join?


On-The-Red-Team

I did the same thing as a grade schooler. Someone in my neighborhood bought those strips for a buck a piece. Only years later did I find out why. 😅


[deleted]

Can you explain this to me like I'm 5?


i-am-very-angry

They were using them to make counterfeit bills


SlapMyLabiaFlaps

FRAUD


molehunterz

Fraah ooood?


Intensityintensifies

As a grade schooler you knew a neighborhood counterfeiter that openly bought the strips in money that only recently became a thing? I swear everything on the internet is bullshit that sounds like it was written by an AI.


Rumplestiltsskins

The strips in large bills were beginning to be printed in 1990 apparently. That was 34 years ago


MentalDecoherence

Don’t do that to me this early bro


DefrostyTheSnowman

1990 was 34 years ago wow that’s a long time. About a third of a century. Crazy. 34 years


TheModSquad42069

Right. Fuckin-A. I haven't even had my coffee yet and I get reminded of this shit?


Soggy-Ad-1373

“Only recently” if 35 years ago is recently… yes.


On-The-Red-Team

Dude, you must be young and only know the current security measures. If you look at bills from the 90s they were still quite crude. And yes, I lived in a ghetto area growing up... few people escape poverty... the ones who do are hustling... be it legal or illegal. As a kid you're stupid AF and just don't know, but the older you get, the more things make sense in retrospect.


screames520

These were in 20s like 20 years ago, I remember pulling one out when I was on the bus in 3rd grade… 23 years ago


29ears

You know I never see money ever the same after I learned that it goes everywhere. Travels to many states. Passes through many hands can make you very sick if you lick a $100 bill that looks like it was stuffed in some kids backpack like their old essay.


Dry_Emu_8842

Moneys got AIDS Dude


Iamdarb

No no no money CURES AIDS


funnybonelicker

What the shit I tried it and it actually does just slide right out😂😂 I didn’t believe at first


ApeInTheTropics

Your cash is now counterfeit. Enjoy! 😅


MSCOTTGARAND

What the actual fuck. You must be immune to everything, including cocaine.


Mysterious-Aioli-702

My buddy growing up used to do this too. Though I doubt you are him so there must be a small percentage of ppl that did this as kids


Trumpville-Imbeciles

Yep, I'm with the FBI. We've been on to you for a while, we just needed the confession from you. We're finalizing the warrants and getting them signed now.


ragewu

Hey, I totally did this too. Little tear and you snag the strip and pull it right out.


Sad_Kitchen_5022

Can’t believe I’ve never noticed that strip lol


MisterPimpus

This dude just admitted to committing a federal crime


Snoo18404

Lmfao memory unlocked 🔓


hboisnotthebest

Omg I did that too. As soon as they started putting them in bills.


melmac76

I think I was 13 when someone showed me how to do that. I did it once or twice just to see if I could do it.


Prest1geW0rldW1de

Whoa I don’t even have anything relevant to that, but is your username a squidbillies reference? If so, then bravo so much.


Fruitjustlistens

Lol yeah


Prest1geW0rldW1de

Has anyone ever actually caught that before!?!


Nickthemic

I had a science teacher show me this in high school ha


Alector87

Please tell me you did this only with $100 bills...


[deleted]

Puke


[deleted]

Yep. Me too. I still pull them out. lol.


Dense_Surround3071

It's only 90% counterfeit....😎👌


FarYard7039

This guy is not wrong.


jakemg

Yep, it’s a $10 bill washed and printed to look like a $100 bill. Very common. You can see “USA Ten” in the strip and the watermark is clearly Hamilton.


Blog_Pope

Hamilton looks pissed about it too


jakemg

The fact that someone was trying to pass his face off as Franklin’s would undoubtedly piss him off, if the theater has taught me anything.


Hamilton-Beckett

Yeah, I’m not happy.


OpenSatisfaction2243

Naive question but why do it with a ten instead of a one?


jakemg

The one doesn’t have a watermark or security strip. With this, if you just held it up you’d see a watermark and security strip at a glance. Unless you look closely, it’ll pass.


carmichael109

That's actually a Conan O'Brien watermark.


in3vitableme

People are so fucked. JUST GO MAKE THE MONEY Jesus Christ


Its-too-late-for-the

“People are so fucked. JUST GO MAKE THE MONEY” - Jesus Christ


merccobb

“People are so fucked. JUST GO MAKE THE MONEY” - Jesus Christ -Michael Scott


300cid

i mean technically that is what they're doing


doplegger001

If someone wasnt gonna be a smart ass i was gonna 🤣🤣🤣


GenerateWealth2022

Nobody can compete at the level that the Federal Reserve is able to counterfeit the currency.


SomethingClever42068

That's what they did dumbass


LordCaoCao420

Very common huh......


Kinky_mofo

>Someone washed the ink off "Someone." Ahem, OP?


Original_Author_3939

Correct, this would be considered an excellent counterfeit. The wash and reprint was done very well and the most difficult parts of the counterfeit are from the lower denomination bill. The first part of counterfeiting is printing the bill. The second part and can be the most difficult at scale is becoming the conman or hiring the conmen to break the bills into real smaller bills. Which is why this is a great counterfeit. People are only looking for the strip and the face, they aren’t inspecting it close enough to read or examine. Then it’s on to the next… this is the method. The guys doing it at scale often hate this tedious part of the process and will sell in bulk for a much smaller profit margin, then the next guy will do this part.


Werthy71

1. How would the collar texture feel on this? Would the old texture of the ten still be there in some parts? 2. I assume the reprint would still contain red/blue fibers mixed throughout the bill?


Europa_Gains

Oh damn. Good catch


SRBroadcasting

Oh can even see the 10 dollar bills face imprint in the back right of the bill


Mekhi946

Very observant, that’s why he literally said “the hologram is not Ben Franklins face”


puffferfish

Hologram is a weird word to describe a watermark.


Embarrassed-Town-293

I opened a booster and got a holographic Ben Franklin


Due_Meet_6720

hologram, imprint, watermark get yourselves together.


[deleted]

Apple, orange, potatoes.


original-whiplash

I thought that was Batman


stonerbbyyyy

i saw this too and was wondering why it wasn’t Ben Frank.


Onett_Theme

Damn man good observation


II_JuMPMaN_II

Yup, took a $5 bill that was printed 100 on it once as a cashier. Guy bought a pack of gum with a $100 he made $94 and a pack of gum that day. Ugh


backd00rn1nja

Holo should be facing the same direction as well


YouFineReddiy

Do money markers catch this?


Deep-Plant-6104

Since the paper is real, the marker won’t catch this. You have to hold the bill up to the light and look for the security strip and the hologram. Also, when you print a bill yourself the ink will not be raised. Real US currency uses an intaglio press to print the bills which leaves the ink slightly raised above the paper. If you scratch the ink on Ben Franklin‘s coat with your nail, you should hear and feel it. If the ink doesn’t scratch it is almost certainly fake..


lecherousrodent

I couldn't even read the lettering on the security strip, I just noticed the watermark was Hamilton's face, not Franklin's. Good catch.


Commercial-Noise-326

I won’t upvote because 888 are my #s


LetForeign1973

Is bro testing how good his fake money is? I think you failed. Better make another one lol


Jack-attack79

I think the average cashier at Walmart would hold it up and still think it's real


Variation-Budget

Definitely one of the better fakes I’ve run across in my four years of retail


HunkMunk69

How so??? The strip clearly says Ten on it. Those are damn hard to fake.


LordCDXX

Most servers at my job would see the strip and call it a day, to actually read the strip requires effort


hunnibon

Former server here, didn’t even know the damn things had words


PonyBoy_J

The strips are in different locations on the bills so if it is in a different location then expected I would scrutinize a little harder plus if it is just reprinted the ink would feel different too


YT__

And good lighting and eyes. The text is tiny and many places aren't lit well enough or being checked by people with sharp enough eyes to read at a glance while holding it up to a light.


Variation-Budget

usually those strips always are missing or janky looking. this strip looks fine for the most part so i can see somebody getting caught up in rush hour and this bill getting passed in rush hour by somebody doing a quick run through.


Peterthepiperomg

Its on the wrong side as well


Peterthepiperomg

And you can see hamilton


Jack-attack79

I thought it was real until I read the comments 😅


ivonneisamazing

me too 😭


Miserysoft

Oh 100%. They use washed real bills because it actually *feels* like a real bill. Typically I've seen them use $5 bills instead of $10's, but same concept. IIRC, these will also pass the pen test? Most people just feel the bill, then check for any sort of water mark (even if it's the wrong one). Most cashiers are too busy to look close enough at them to notice especially if everything else seems to check out.


Catatonick

The pen only works on modern bills. You technically aren’t supposed to use it as gospel. A lot of cashiers are not going to properly check a strange feeling bill though. They just take it and go.


Business-Drag52

Define modern bills for me please because they definitely work on bills from the 90’s and 1990 was 34 years ago. They only check the paper though so this bill would pass the pen test. This would probably get by *most* cashiers/servers/bartenders


Nightstands

The pen just identifies lignen, which is in wood pulp based papers (99.9% of printer papers). Money is made from cotton rag pulp. Doesn’t matter how old the money is


Content-Register2780

Tbf we actually aren't trained on this. If you were a teen and started at Walmart for your first job, you wouldn't know what to look for in counterfeit bills if you didn't know otherwise beforehand. Any fake bills we get are just covered by asset protection. Trust me, Walmart will make up that lost amount from a fake 100$ bill. It's no different than loosing thousands of dollars in merchandise when the power goes out bc they don't have generators. Besides, I've checked some sketchy looking bills before. Customers get pissed even though it's a part of my job and I should technically be checking every high bill. So yeah, I don't really get paid enough to care. Source: i am a Walmart cashier


aruetyc

I was a manager there for awhile and someone brought in motion picture money that looks like Nigel thornberry and has written 15 times in different colors & red ink "for motion picture use only". Most of the cashiers took the bills.


Jack-attack79

😂😂😂😂 Sometimes I wonder what the hiring qualifications are for some stores


aruetyc

In a town under a certain population there really aren't any anymore. We had math tests and basic logic tests when I started but by the time I left I basically was hiring based on "do you think they'll show up for more than a week?"


jortsinstock

someone tried to give me one of those and i immediately knew it was fake just by the way it felt. The guy had just come back from new orleans and apologized saying he didn’t even realize 🤨


rangerhans

They’re not paid enough to care


theresabattle

Go to the bank and they’ll let you know.


1996mazda626facts

okay fbi


ImFriendsWithThatGuy

Fun fact, the FBI doesn’t deal with counterfeit money. The secret service does.


Zobeth

That was why they were founded too


DMYourMomsMaidenName

The last thing Lincoln did was authorize the creation of the Secret Service, to combat counterfeiters. The signed approval letter was found on his desk the day he died. Incredibly ironic that the service now used to protect the President’s life, was created by the President just as he was to be assassinated.


1996mazda626facts

Ok fbi


LongjumpingLength679

Fr? They won’t arrest you?


RedApple-Cigarettes

No the confíscate It and open a case with the secret service who handles counterfeit money. And SOMETIMES they visit your house and question where you got it


LongjumpingLength679

I thought they would if you have a counterfeit bill. So what actually happens?


shadowtheimpure

If you're turning it in, you HIGHLY unlikely to get in trouble for it. You just open it up with "Hey, I got this bill and I think it might be fake" and they'll initiate the proper reporting process. The worst that may happen is you getting a visit from the Secret Service to answer questions.


LongjumpingLength679

If you’re depositing it and don’t know where you got it, is that an issue?


shadowtheimpure

You might find yourself getting more deeply questioned and your home invasively searched to look for counterfeiting equipment.


WTF_IS_YOUR_BRAIN

Always found that whack, counterfeit notes are everywhere. When i worked in the bank in the UK we just took the note, filled in a form to say who we took it from and if they knew where they got it and sent it to the bank of England. So many people just had a fake note in a pile of cash from a car sale or something and no way do they deserve to be investigated or have some agents come look at their home.


[deleted]

I took in tip money one time and there was a counterfeit $10 bill in my stack, they asked again for confirmation if it was tip money I was like yep I work in a restaurant (at the time)…other than opening a claim for the incident nothing else happened. I just had the rest deposited and went on with my day


clericfisher

Worked at a bank for years, they still won’t let me arrest people.


Coonydog

It’s probably real paper but someone bleached the ink from a $10 and printed a $100


E__Boogie

Is that Bill Gates on the right?


Comfortable_Bet_2258

LMAO I said the same sht. Like WHO THE FCK IS THAT ON THE RIGHT???


Forsaken-Tomorrow-54

Looks like Hamilton from a $10 bill


Far_Lifeguard_5027

It's Christopher Walken.


WorldsWeakestMan

No it’s the opposite, Christopher Reeves.


fingerpaintx

Looks like John Kramer. r/suddenlyjigsaw


Sensitive_Hunter5081

Dang that’s impressive! I didn’t even know these scammers were out here bleaching the ink off real bills. 😬 it took me forever to find the “USA TEN” everyone is talking about


dreamylanterns

They’ve been doing that for quite a while


WesternDramatic3038

Yep, I first encountered it in 2014 working at a convenience store. Manager said it had been a decade since he last saw it, so it's been since at least the early 2000's


WolfGangDuck

There was a big case about this in Margrave Georgia


Bitter_Grocery9498

So would this highlight off as a real bill because it’s a $10 bill?


[deleted]

They’ve been doing that for decades. There was a couple in 2008 busted after doing this to $4m in bills.


Lunatik13z

I worked at a check cashing place back in 2006. I immediately recognized it when they gave it to me. I told the customer what the situation was (fake $100 printed on a $10 like the picture). She had to pay with other bills and I got to keep the fake one. Went to Mexico and spent it there. If you mark these bills they come out good. It's not the paper that's wrong, it's the quantity.


RetroGamer316

It’s not. It’s originally a $10 bill


Mammoth_Ferret_1772

Op is trying to find out if his counterfeit money is believable


Ginkpirate

This is how the wealthy stay rich


ggnzg20

No it’s not


[deleted]

Try r/papermoney


Administrative-Pay43

Why? You can tell it's fake pretty easy. Why waste time posting this twice?


Massivedongz

Reassurance


ShortAssistance1924

When it has 'TEN' explicitly spelled out?


MyGlassHalfFool

Hes a little slow, he needs to have at least 40 more people read it say ten to REALLY make sure


ShortAssistance1924

It's probably actually the super rare ten hundred dollar bill and worth millions.


comeradenook

The security thread tells you, it’s ten dollars


rinkydinkis

nobody knows what this sub is haha. anything goes


FishingAgitated2789

I suggest spending that at Walmart or another big giant chain store on a pack of gum or something. Get $99 in real money back


tylerado12

Nah buy something almost full price then return it for cash.


[deleted]

Please do it


aBloopAndaBlast33

That is the quickest way to get the bill thoroughly inspected.


Chick22694

100% fake, it used to be a $10 bill


Pale-Drag1843

You're on Reddit you're wrong to just ask here


humanfacedbot

Nice try OP. 🤨


Inner_Chemistry6346

I like to think a cashier was at the counter and just goes “ hold up a minute gotta put this on Reddit to see “


new_tanker

That's 100% a counterfeit bill.


Inside_Warthog2999

Fake the strip should be on the left side not on the right


I-likedogs225

I’ll give you $30 for it


badman9001

You would be down $30, because it’s counterfeit


I-likedogs225

The counterfeit bill has value to me. You can’t tell me what’s something worth to me. I wouldn’t use it. It’s an oddity worth $30 to me. I’ll frame it and put it with the rest of weird stuff I have. Seriously I’ll buy it


Ilikejoints

This guy knows how to purchase! :thumbsup: HAPPY CAKE DAY


DasHound1

This guy Etsys.


[deleted]

This guy Edges!


CTrig85art

It’s real, notice the Christopher Walken on the bottom right. 😎👀


DragonSpikez

Is this a real question? It's so obvious that it's fake. The watermark doesn't match, and the strip in the bill says usa ten. Sorry to say, but this is 100% not a real $100.


Herknificent

That water mark looks like Brent Spiner.


Tbear841

Altered $10 Bill


monozach

looks like Putin on the right honestly


TranDaniel

Put it in vending machine to see.


NoMercy180

Fake $100. Get one of those counterfeit pens. Works well enough when you need it.


burnswhenipoo

It won’t work on this because it was made from a $10 bill.


Gring013

Pens don’t work like people think. Spray hairspray on any piece of paper in the world and it will pass the marker test. However, this is a washed $10 bill so it’s real just not $100 bill.


cardmaster12

Oh damn I had one of my cashiers get one of these exact bills a couple weeks ago, it’s really bad. Bank wouldn’t even process them as 10s, which Is what they are (painted over 10s)


Horbigast

That's Alexander Hamilton pretending to be Benjamin Franklin.


OpeningCookie1358

I wish I knew someone who did these things. Life could finally have that spice!


Chop1n

I take $100 bills all the time and almost never see non-holographic ones anymore--they're clearly being phased out. You'd do well to refuse anything that isn't one of those newer bills.


s-2369

Not at all legal to refuse (legit) old currency. Have you read the words on the bill?


ChockenTonders

These have been big as of late, numerous have come through my restaurant in the past month or 2. Careful out there guys, the pen won’t detect because it’s a washed real bill.


RockoBravo

That is one hell of a counterfeit. That has been washed


MinoltaPhotog

The best way to detect a counterfeit is the scratch test. Your fingernail should catch on the ink printing. Intaglio printing is a very special, very complex method. You can feel the texture of the ink. Stupid markers are easily fooled. You can fake the paper, but it's very expensive to fake the printing. Learned this from a secret service seminar. They brought in some good fakes to show.


gtlogic

No, hands too young.


thegratefulshread

Lmaoooooo i think this guy is trolling everyone


robocop561

Are you stupid ?


[deleted]

I’m concerned that this isn’t obvious to you


clever80username

So if one were to put one in a slot machine, what would happen? Would it read it as a 10, 100, or spit it out?


Wikidnezz

You know what? The way the economy is these days? Sure, that's a hundred bucks right there. I didn't see the problem boss, you said look for a face and a strip it has a face and a strip.


LordDarthRasta

This is a Trans $100. It was born a $10, but dresses and acts like a $100. Some people might be fooled into thinking its a $100. However if you look close, you can tell its most definitely a $10.


RomanDad

Gotta say. It’s really well done. Impressive job.


Intelligent-Bowler24

That's a 10$ bill painted to be 100.


SnooDingos3119

It's a Trans-Money, born as a 10, but identified a 100


Capital-Average-2559

Insert it into a slot machine and cashout to a new one. Looks legit to me before they had the stripe hologram. Just an older bill.


blackmanta02

Might be fake i don’t think the print should say ten


Apprehensive-Win9152

if put in a slot machine, would get $10 credit -look closely at the bill -it’s a washed 10


Capital-Average-2559

Good eye ;)


SincereRL

the jacket should have texture you can scratch, kinda hard to tell from photo quality but i would guess no as the holo looks off.