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In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “Counterfeiting has gotten so bad that for the first time in its 2018 financial filings, Amazon mentioned that it had become a significant issue on its site.” --Bezonomics,…

Would you pay $250.00 for an Andy Warhol sketch even if you knew there was only 1 in a 1000 chance it was real? The MSCHF collective is selling one real sketch along with 999 “elaborate forgeries” for $250.00 to make a statement about “famous works of art only being accessible to the wealthy.” However,…

When the FBI trains its agents that are involved in counterfeit currency fraud, they train them to be totally familiar with real banknotes, rather than the forgeries they might encounter. Their philosophy is that if their agents are absolutely trained and knowledgeable about real currency, then they…

Select all the text in this box and paste your illustration here... Once a bunch of crooks in New York were trying to make counterfeit money. Their printing press malfunctioned and instead of printing out $20 bills, it printed out a bunch of $18 bills. They were getting ready to throw the $18 bills away,…

A slick confidence man was handed a roll of $18 bills by a counterfeiter. “The machine got mixed up.” the counterfeiter said. “We can’t use these in the big city. Take them down to West Virginia and pass them off to the hicks.” The con man took a bundle and drove deep into the West Virginia mountains.…

Bogus billions Psst ... You Got Change for a Billion? LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities investigating a man who smuggled money into the country have seized 250 counterfeit bank notes in billion-dollar denominations, they announced Tuesday. The 250 bogus Federal Reserve notes had 1934 issue dates…