-pops- Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 You probably know that high quality, low cost digital scanning, copying and printing technologies have been used to counterfeit currency, but did you know that the government is fighting back? When you put a document under the glass of your new photocopier or scanner and push the button, it dutifully makes a high resolution copy - unless the document is one of the new style twenty or fifty dollar bills, Euros and other currencies. If you do that, you just might be surprised to see a message pop up informing you that you should visit this website to become more educated on counterfeit laws: http://www.rulesforuse.org/What will they think of next? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 More then likely the next thing invented will be a printer/firmware update update that bypasses it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Just scanned a £50 and £20 note without problem. :) The quality of the scan and print is so good that after trimming the copies and laying down on the table next to the originals, my wife nor I could tell the difference, it is only on close inspection or touch that it becomes obvious which is which plus of course the metallic logo that is now on each genuine note. :([Edit] I did read that the latest batch of notes will show the watermark denoting its a copy, but not sure if this is yet in effect. :ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Note they carefully insert "new" photocopier or scanner.Photoshop has had banknote detection in it for a long time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Ah! that may be something to do with it -pops-! I placed an edit to my post above but you will not have seen it before replying. I did the scan with Adobe elements. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 The FBI are on the way Djhon quick burn it all!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 cd108 :lol:I wouldn't even dream of using them and the difference is quite obvious on close inspection but from a distance of a metre or so you'd be hard pressed to notice. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 dare you to lob a load of the top of a car park or something, imagine the hysteria Rofl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 cd108 :lol:I wouldn't even dream of using them and the difference is quite obvious on close inspection but from a distance of a metre or so you'd be hard pressed to notice. :)Send them to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Canadian currency has been going through some changes recently. We have coins for everything up to two dollars. There is a 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollar bills. So far there has been quite a few of the new style circulating around and let me tell you, they have quite the security built into them.http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/co...20_2001-05.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 The opposite was true here when shops over here first started to accept euros they were raped, im sure there was some student who walked away with hundreds of punds worth of electrical goods from the highstreet with euros hed made himself. To be fair to the checkout folkes tho i thought euros looked like monoply money myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Canadian currency has been going through some changes recently. We have coins for everything up to two dollars. There is a 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollar bills. So far there has been quite a few of the new style circulating around and let me tell you, they have quite the security built into them.http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/co...20_2001-05.htmlHmmm makes you think how much does money cost :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 This post reminded me of April fools dayin my work a couple of year ago, I had a couple of £20 notes with the profile of Lorenzo Amoruso ( Rangers FC then and now Blackburn FC player) instead of the HM the Queen on it. We decided to photocopy a big bundle of them, cut them to size and leave them next to a treadmill in the CV area and train the CCTV on this particular spot, sure enough a short time later a guy comes on to that treadmill, starts running on it, takes of his tracksuit top and throws it onto the bundle of "money" stops running picks up his topand the money with it, then starts to make his way from the CV Area, at this point we announce over the public address system " This is a customer announcement, could the guy in the black T shirt who just threw his tracksuit top over the bundle of money and is now making his way from the CV area with it, April fool, please have a closer look at the money"Fortunately he took it in good fun or we could have been in trouble with our directors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 Canadian currency has been going through some changes recently. We have coins for everything up to two dollars. There is a 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollar bills. So far there has been quite a few of the new style circulating around and let me tell you, they have quite the security built into them.http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/co...20_2001-05.htmlHmmm makes you think how much does money cost :rolleyes:A Canadian penny (1 cent) costs 1 and 1/2 cents to make. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 A Canadian penny (1 cent) costs 1 and 1/2 cents to make. :DI remember reading in an education magazine at the time of the introduction of decimal currency that plastc replica coins were available to teach people about the new system.One pence replica coins were £1.50 per hundredTwo pence were £2.50 per hundred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 When I did my National Service in Germany, we were paid with toy money called BAFSV's, British Armed Forces Service Vouchers. These could be spent in the camp shop and the NAAFI. Whilst on pay parade we could go to another desk and buy Deutche marks to spend in the local shops. The BAFVS's would have been dead easy to counterfeit on a computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 A Canadian penny (1 cent) costs 1 and 1/2 cents to make. :DI remember reading in an education magazine at the time of the introduction of decimal currency that plastc replica coins were available to teach people about the new system.One pence replica coins were £1.50 per hundredTwo pence were £2.50 per hundredBut a $100 dollar bill costs almost the same as a $20, so that doesn't matter anyways. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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