Spectacular Mismatched Serial Numbers Note Too Good To Be True

CoinWorld - Apparently there is no longer enough profit in counterfeiting regular $100 bills. After all why settle for passing a fake at only face value, when if it is an error note you can get substantially more?

That seems to be the latest news from Peru, where Lima is such a hotbed of fraudulent activity that the U.S. Secret Service has an office there. Now, criminals are also deliberately counterfeiting errors.



U.S. dealers have been offered Series 2009A $100 Federal Reserve notes out of Lima with mismatched serial numbers; if genuine, they would be the most spectacular mismatches in history. Most genuine errors of the type usually have one or two mismatched digits and occur either when a numbering machine sticks or when the operator makes a mistake during setup. What sets these apart is a degree of brazenness that error export Fred Bart, author of United States Paper Money Errors, says "results in errors that are virtually impossible."

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