If you're going to make counterfeit money -- and I'm not suggesting that you do -- try to make it look like
real money. Don't do what a New Zealand woman did.
A Palmerston North woman out shoe shopping has been caught flat-footed after allegedly trying to pass off a crudely forged $100 bill as genuine currency.
Staff at Number 1 Shoe Warehouse phoned police on Friday when they realised the note handed to them was fake. [Link]
It was such a bad forgery that a blind man holding a cup on the street corner refused to accept it.
Another three $100 prints - each with one blank side - and a fake $50 bill were later allegedly found in the woman's purse.
The woman, 30, was to appear in court today charged with using a forged document.
Mr Affleck said the notes - made of paper using a colour photocopier, adhesive and Sellotape - were an "extremely poor attempt" at counterfeit.
"Basically they've just stuck two pieces of paper together and got some Sellotape to make the transparent panels," he said. "It's a pretty crude method and you can tell it's fake as soon as you touch it." [Link]
Sellotape? Even I know better than to use Sellotape. If you want to do it right, you have to use Scotch Tape!
I wonder how the interrogation went.
Cop: "Where did you learn to make forged money like this?"
Woman: "FU."
Cop: "Hey, you'd better watch it! You're in big enough trouble already."
Woman: "FU -- that's where I learned it. Forgery University."
Cop: "Oh, I see. Did you graduate?"
Woman: "No, they kicked me out in my second year. Didn't like the money I used to pay the tuition."
Photo by Taniwhaiti
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