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Counterfeit $100 Bills

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 Posted 06/25/2016  7:48 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jack jeckel to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Anyone else hear about this one? I guess technically they are not true counterfeit but someone around here is passing these movie prop bills around the area.

Counterfeit-$100-Bills

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news...-funny-money

KENOSHA, WI - The Kenosha Police Department has issued a warning to area residents about fake bills circulating around town.

Officials say the $100 bills are counterfeit and marked "For Motion Picture Use Only."

"I noticed it too, it said 'motion picture,' and I knew right away it was phony money," said Patricia Minkey, who handed in two bills she found to police.

Minkey said she's heard of people taking the bills to stores and spending them. But she said she wasn't fooled.

"I felt this, it's like wax paper, it doesn't even feel like real paper," she said.

Police are investigating the source of the money. They say the bills look authentic, but lack the interior strip and watermarks.

Minkey hopes it's discovered before the counterfeit cash hurts local businesses.

"It's not good for the economy, because, I mean, that store's going to lose out on $100. If you take in two, $200," Minkey said.

Kenosha Police are encouraging anyone who finds one of the bills to call them.
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06/25/2016 7:51 pm
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 Posted 06/25/2016  8:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Buddy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sheesh!

Were any films made in that area lately? I wondering how those fakes got so far off the studio lots.
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 Posted 06/26/2016  01:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GoldenChest to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Thanks for sharing
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 Posted 06/26/2016  08:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinsearcher83 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Were any films made in that area lately? I wondering how those fakes got so far off the studio lots.


Pretty sure you can buy movie money off Amazon or ebay. I suppose to an untrained eye they do look pretty close to the real thing.
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 Posted 06/26/2016  6:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add YNumismetals Collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, the texture and the letters are obviously fake, maybe just for pranks?
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 Posted 06/28/2016  5:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Must admit I did not realize these existed - I thought the restriction on using images of genuine US paper money in movies/TV had been lifted a long time ago.

Anyone have any input here?
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 Posted 06/28/2016  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's not a restriction on what can be seen on screen. It's purely pragmatic on the part of the studios while making the movie or show, to use "prop money" rather than suitcases full of real money, which has to be borrowed, guarded while it is on set, and then returned intact. The real money could be pilfered, lost or destroyed in a stunt; no-one would care if those things happened to a suitcase full of movie props.

"Chinese bank training money" has a similar goal: it is used in situations where you need a lot of pieces that "look like real money" but they don't want to put any real money at risk of being lost or stolen.
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They could do a bit more to differentiate these from genuine notes, and it still wouldn't show up on the screen.
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 Posted 06/29/2016  11:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Justinwd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
These have been going around where I live in Muncie indiana.
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