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Authentic dollar bills are equipped with many security features to make them difficult to forge. But that doesn’t stop counterfeiters from trying to fool people with fakes. Luckily, anyone can help catch a counterfeit; all you need are a few simple tools and a bit of chemistry. Tien Nguyen details the chemistry behind counterfeit cash.
Lesson by Tien Nguyen, animation by Lippy.
I'm a bank teller, and the easiest way to detect counterfeit is to run your fingernail over the shirts of the portrait on the front of the bill. The shirts have a raised edging on them, and you'll be able to feel/lightly hear the raised edges. It's like this for every bill, including $1 and $2 bills.
Mathew Parrish no u aren't
Leafy Is here. Prove it
Mathew Parrish you prove it
thanks for the info but i think its still BS that u a bank teller
Icebreaker270 i don't know why anyone would lie about that but okay. Look at my Facebook if you have a problem
How to spot a counterfeit bill, more like how to make one, am I right?
jk im sorry don't make fake bills that's terrible
***** nope, describing specs do not equal to describing manufacturing methods..
+Radityo Perwianto - If I tell you the ingredients to a cake, with any intelligence you'd be able to bake a cake.
Good point bunnyfaceperson123
+bunnyfaceperson123 However, just knowing the difference between a delicious ball of frosting and deliciousness, compared to a burnt, charred husk comprised mostly of shattered expectations, doesn't mean you can make a nice cake.
That's what this video teaches
why is it call counterfeit?
Because when you give it to the lady at the counter she has a fit
Get off the stageeeee *throws tomato*
Dammit Barb!
LOL
lol :3
No it's because she is too fat to fit behind the counter
because i have a fucking iodine pen in my pocket ....
+Hunter Cooke You can buy them from some shops, they're pretty cheap.
Asy B ok
Inb4 you buy it with counterfeit money
Hunter Cooke i can steal iodine from my class. woooooo
Team BZ no.
3:40 - "Oh look, someone dropped a dollar bill on the ground. I'd better inspect it, maybe they were trying to trick me with a counterfeit bill."
Lol this is amazing.
hahahahahahahaha
100th like
XD The guy's name rendered with diacritics would be Tiên Nguyễn, however, if you take his first name and add a small mark, Tiền, then it translates into English as "money" . XD
+Nguyễn Đinh Quân Coincidence?
i think *NOT!*
Wow!
I'm viet too!
Wow!
It's funny that huyện can change his name so much also I have a cousin named Tiên
This is EXACTLY why canada doesn't use a material with similar texture to paper.
I still can't take the names seriously. I'm sorry. It's just too good to be true.
canada just uses plastic in the making of their bills
canada has monopoly money
Why does it look like monopoly money?
I'm not sure if this it's right but in my personal experience it's easier to tell bills apart
There are easier ways to spot a counterfeit bill:
Legitimate bills use black and green ink.
Most counterfeits are printed out with a printer so by that logic all green ink will be comprised of yellow, magenta, and cyan and is easily discernible if you look closely at the bill.
Also, in bills that are 10 dollars and higher, the amount in the lower right hand corner of the face side of the bill will be reflective/shiny. If the number does not shine it is suspect.
Also if you use your fingernail to scratch the shirt on the bill you will feel the ridges.
that's noob counterfeiting... don't ask how I know ;)
+Saphiros Problem is, modern day laser ink printing just made the job of observing the various dots a LOT harder...
EDIT:
Also, Printers now have pure black ink! Yay.
they still don't have pure green ink though
Dots, dude. The dots are so small at that point (pun intended) that it's more than obnoxiously difficult to discern the various dots.
Remember to be careful for bleached bills too! You might notice that bills pass the marker test but are still counterfeit, they take a $1 or $5 bill, bleach it, then print a higher denomination on top of that. Make sure that strip is in the right spot before taking large bills. That marker is easily fooled!
rockforever5505 That is why most currencies use larger paper for higher denominations. and is easily seen.
@@marcusl5605 wrong, actually. All US bills are the same size. It's for easier stacking in a wallet or pocket.
There's an easier way to combat the bleached 1/5 trick. The ones and fives don't have a portrait with enough of a suit to texture. All bills 10 and higher in the U.S. have textured suits on the portrait. If it doesn't feel textured, it's fake.
And also, the paper feels different. U.S. currency is printed on a mix of Cotton and Linen mixed with wood pulp
I always heard you have the right to contact the Secret Service who are the agency dealing with counterfeit money
@@katherynedarrah4245 Person wasn't talking about US currency. lol They're right.
Counterfeit bills will usually feel different than real bills. A tough part of counterfeiting is making bills printed on computer paper feel legit.
*Decides to support TED on Patreon*
"This better work"
*Next day, finds out that money was counterfeit*
Here in Australia, making fakes is extremely difficult and the bills are reinforced with plastic, I believe, and there is also a little space in the corner of the bill that is transparent and made out of the same material.
Julia Binarystar Actually, Australia was one of the first (if not THE first) to make all our banknotes out of plastics under a highly specialised method that only we and one or two other countries (currently) have the technology and machines to produce.
ElNeroDiablo Well i love it, it can get washed in the laundry
+Julia Binarystar Scotland's new(ish) £5 notes are the same, super cool, I like them a lot.
+Julia Binarystar we do.. we even subsidies them.. bc we have too much n our farmers are starving
+Jane Binarystar Same in New Zealand.
:-)
Anti-Counterfeit pens are the worst way to detect a counterfeit bill.
How?
thatrandomconcript 26 writing on money?
MrC0MPUT3R why?
thatrandomconcript 26 because counterfeiters bleach lower denomination bills and print over them with higher denominations. The pen will not catch this
Whats the best way then?
This was not how to spot a counterfeit bill, this was how to spot a counterfeit DOLLAR bill. This information was almost useless to anyone who is not from the USA, unlike the title.
good point...
Miljan Todorovic
Most of the money in the world had uv part though
if you read the description it told you dollars
Not really the UV part is true in India
Supose you are a good person....Should you turn in counterfiet bills or just throw them away?
The Secret Service recommends that you take note of the person who gave you the bill (anything to help find them; name, description, companions, license plates, etc.), call the police or the local Secret Service field office, write your initials and the date in white on the border of the bill, and try not to handle it too much if you can help it. And don't give the counterfeit bill or coin to anyone but a properly identified police officer or Secret Service special agent.
Just rip it up a little so the government has no evidence that u made it
yeah very good
wlckr; mur1954
Now I know how to make a fake bill without being caught
FBI THIS IS A JOKE DONT COME AT ME PLEASEEEE
I work in a financial institution and they left a whole hell of a lot of ways out of this list....
12:32 How to find a counterfeit note
12:33 How to remove yellow ink from note
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peace
I am from EU, and I have been wondering why Dollar bills have all the same size and same colour? A one dollar bill should be smaller than a 100 bill also each bill should have a,different colour
At my work we actually switched from the pen to an electronic counterfeit detector because the pens or not guaranteed to be very accurate.
Well you forgot about:
Cartoon faces that show up (10 and up)
Rough texture on the president's shirt. With age this comes and goes. (10 and up)
And the dollar amount in the bottom right had corner changes color if you tilt it towards and away from you. (from 10 and up)
The following is for entertainment and educational/informational purposes only and is not intended to suggest that anyone produce, distribute, or otherwise commit a crime involving fake money. I do not endorse or imply that anyone commit a crime. If you do decide to make fake money the chances are very high you will be arrested, Counterfeiting is a Crime punishable with a Large custodial sentence. I take no responsibility for your use of the information, opinions and possible lies stated below. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Point one: Detector pens DO NOT WORK, lots of paper now is made without starch and even when the pens were first introduced their effectiveness was really only psychological, they are only to deter casual counterfeiters as most paper has very little starch in it.
Point Two: The strips in notes can be made from any material that will Flores, remember it only has to work once when you, or better, your accomplice spends the note.
Point Three: Making the paper used in U.S. bank notes is quite easy, there are many tutorials on-line on making your own paper. The original reason bank notes didn't have starch in them is because, rather than wood pulp which is expensive and starchy, they use a fabric/cotton mix which was incredibly cheep to make and produced very poor quality paper.
Point Four: When deciding on note denomination, Lower is better. While it may seem tempting to create 100$ bills, if you think about it, how often to you pay for a pizza, or buy a CD with a 100$ bill. Fives, Tens, and Twenties are your best bet, they are more common and your note will blend in better with other notes.
Point Five: Location is everything, When spending your fake money target shops that pressure there sales staff to maximise the number of customers they serve, shops that are popular or stores that have high customer through-put. Sales staff are less likely to take the time to thoroughly check notes if the boss has a stopwatch and an eye on the cue behind you.
Point Six: Using any of the above information to commit a crime is stupid, only an idiot brakes the law when the consequences are so horrible for such a small return. Use this information to spot the idiotic criminals and report all crimes to the local authorities.
As a cashier, I have to say, keep a close on all bills. I had a counterfeit one dollar bill today.
When he mentioned de-stabilizing entire national economies i thought he was going to mention Alves dos Reis, he managed to destabilize Portugal's economy in the 1920s with fake notes, although the notes weren't technically fake.
May i ask who is Tien Nguyen ? His name seems to be vietnamese but he sure knows alot about US dollars
yeah so so hansome
more veryfi ; wlckr:mur1954
Franklin gettin turnt at the end there :D
Not only is the UV strip in different places for each bill, but they glow different colors as well.
The better way to stop counterfeit bills is to switch from bills to coins.
Boogster Su Then people would just counterfeit coins...
Because fake coins are non existant
+Boogster Su We still need to get rid of useless 1 cent coins before doing that.
MattTheKingg Nothing is worth 99 cents these days. Even if there is, I doubt you're going to miss that 1 cent. Collecting those singular pennies isn't worth the space/time.
I could listen to Addison Anderson talk about stuff like this for hours
At my uncle's restaurant, a guy tried to pay with a fake 100 dollar bill and he kept insisting that it was real 😂 (my uncle kicked him out)
And what to do if you will find fake?
Smile and wave.
Pawel Tylinski Well, that depends on the situation.
If you're being given a bill, and find it to be fake, then you obviously shouldn't take it.
If you have a bunch of bills, then don't ever test them yourself. You almost certainly will not be arrested for passing off a bill you didn't know was a forgery. Ignorance is your friend in this situation.
If someone tests a bill you have and finds it to be a forgery, then you can either destroy the bill, or try giving it to the FBI. Either way, though, you're out however much money the bill is worth.
Pawel Tylinski congratulate yourself on making yourself that much poorer.
Pawel Tylinski You're actually suppose to turn it in to the secret service, not the fbi. You can find out any details that you need by simply calling your local police department. It is illegal to have a counterfeit in your possession, especially knowingly. If you receive fake money as change, you're probably out of luck. If you try to spend this money at a store, you're risking jail time.
If you find fake money, turn it in.
I would recommend not destroying it, because it may help the secret service in an investigation.
I'm a clerk, and I handle thousands of dollars everyday. I can spot a fake bill pretty easy. I always confiscate the bill from the customer when they present it to me. I've seen $100 fake bills that marked good with the pen, and I've also seen them with the blue stripe. The first two red flags that you will notice in a fake bill is that the print kind of looks blurry and that the bill feels a little more stiff. If you have any bill with these issues, check the watermark or use the pen. The differences may be too subtle to see for someone who doesn't handle money very often, but if someone demonstrates to you that your bill is fake, you better get rid of it the right way.
On a side note, I've never encountered a fake $1 bill in my profession. Maybe I did, but I just didn't notice it. Maybe it's not worth counterfeiting. I don't know the reason, but I've never seen one before, and I do have a safe that automatically rejects fake or damaged bills.
Pawel Tylinski As my time as a salesmen I ran into a few people trying to buy stuff with fake bills. Just do your business and then call the cops and get a license plate number or ID if possible. I've had a few times where the dude saw me on the phone after driving away and ran back to try to take the money back.
Legitimate bills above $1 also have a watermark, either of the person on the bill, the bill's worth, or both. And the $1 bill has a tiny owl (or spider, depending on how you see it) in the upper right corner of its front. But I'm not sure how easy these are for counterfeiters to create...
If one in 10,000 bills are counterfeit then how much money is North Korea making when they are producing Superdollars?
Thanks for the tips
Is that supposed to be a joke?
Did I miss something in this video? The first thing I do with any bill is hold it up to the light, because if the bill is real, it will show a faint hologram of the president depicted on the bill.
I was passed a fake $10 bill several years ago, and I still have it tacked up on my bulletin board as a lesson to me.
i love how i just started biology and i understand at least some of this.
super awesome stuff! I never knew the science behind it until now
There's also that the number that says the value of the bill also changes from a green to copper color if you move it in the light.
What if it's a larger amount printed ontop of a bleached bill... A little while ago my grandfather, manager of a store, had gotten three $100 bills which were bills printed on bleached $1 bills. The counterfeit pens they used didn't show that they were counterfeit because it was a real bill.. Is there a way to tell?
canaan hutton usually, the size of the bill goes up when the value goes up. Take a five dollar bill and a twenty dollar bill, put the on top of each other and see
Not a problem with Australian money which is made of plastic (like a cheap playing card but thinner) also all the marks, micro prints, and shadow prints, not to mention all the features that only appear at a certain angle (looking In the window between 5-10° reveals the value of the bill) or with a certain light (there are UV prints with the value and serial)
+CoolAsFinnBro By plastic you mean polymer specifically. Vietnam also uses polymer money (because someones brothers wife's dads cousin (you get the idea) gave some kick backs. If you think they can't be counterfeited then you would be wrong. There are many fakes that come out of China and get circulated all the time. if it can be made, if can be counterfeited! The polymer monies is many cases are easier...it just depends on what security features are present, not so much the material the majority of the bill is made of.
If you find a random dollar bill, go take it to a rave or draw on is with a special marker.
Me: wait, money is made of Cotten and linen? No wonder if you wash it iT shrinks.
Mom: hey, why is there a twenty dollar bill in here? And why is It small?
Me: uhhh
I learned that when you put a bill up to the light a smaller face will appear faintly on the bill
Would all these tips work on all bills from all countries? Or does it work only on particular bills?
Why did i watch this video if my country dont use Dollars?... well, R$ have watermarks :D
I remember back when they first started putting those strips inside bills. People kept removing them.
Step 1: Use UV, if no effect on those bills, it is counterfeit but if it is $1 or $5
Step 2: Find the rings
If PHP use 1
If USD use both
If British Pound use 1
And so on
Fun fact counterfeiting has been around since money was invented, and that’s a LONG time ago.
At work someone tried to pay for their food with counterfeit money printed in black and white
Mistakes to avoid when counterfeiting money
That seems like surprisingly little anti-counterfeiting measures!
Euro bills, for instance, also include raised print, watermarks revealed by transparency, ink that shines differently depending on the lighting angle, holograms, etc...
+piranha031091 Most currencies have similar counterfeiting measures but most of them can fade over time and make it harder to tell if they're real or fake. I hate working with US dollars because they feel the most like paper out of all the currencies I deal with on a daily basis.
+94Cazzie what's your carrier it sounds interesting
Something about your robotic voice that makes these videos addictive
Well, then, I definitely did not look for the right things whenever I came across large bills as a cashier.
What if the guys who made counterfeit money watched this?
Hard to get the matirals.
nice spelling
What's the best thing todo once you know you've got a fake note?
cry
deposit at the bank.
+ai van the bank sometimes gives you counterfeits
Marius Ammann technically, you'll need to turn it into the Secret Service. That's what we have to do at the bank. It's government property, and when someone tries to duplicate it, it's a federal offense.
Mathew Parrish do not turn it in to as, just give it to the bank, ss wwill havent a whing so far up ur ass you will always find counterfeits
The 38 people who disliked the video are counterfeiters
But how can you tell if it's counterfeit or not? Like you won't use the pen for every bill. I work at a supermarket and I take in a lot of money but I won't use the pen or the light for every bill that I take in . So how can you tell just by feeling it? Or looking at it?
All of these method seems to be simple and effective. Or is it? You should check out Frank Bourassa if you haven't already. The fact that they are called "Master" does tell that it is not that easy to spot a fake bill. And even if you've spotted a fake one, what would you do about it ?
Paul Revere did not yell "THE BRITISH ARE COMMING!" Because they are still British... He yelled "THE REGULARS ARE COMMING!"
Here's some irony. You can actually sell those counterfeit dollars for real dollars on the darknet.
HigherPlanes not irony, but yes that's true. Learned this from an Archer Vice episode
I don't see the irony, but it's a cool fact.
Why would they want fakes for real money
Just have everyone agree to regard fakes as real legal tender thus removing damage that counterfeits were originally created for
just no
+Jack Guest I'm guessing you know nothing about economics?
20 dollars... hmm seems like George Floyd.
What if your not an American
In Australia it's extremely easy to spot a counterfeit. Since counterfeits are mort often than not made of paper, it's easy to just feel the difference between a genuine and a counterfeit. Along with that, there are parts where it is see-through, and the last time I checked the only way to make paper clear is by cutting a hole in it. Not to mention that the government is making new designs so it is even easier to tell the difference between a counterfeit and a genuine, as they're putting brail on it and moving images when you tilt them, as well as extremely tiny writing that you need a magnifying glass to read.
I like how everyone is saying that plastic bills are better than "stupid american paper bills", but do we really need more fucking plastic that doesn't decompose? seriously.
And what is the difference between counterfeits and government printing money? None ;) Same effects.
We have a FraudFighter (the UV-16 model) where I work. The strip on the 100s can be really hard to see in a store. Other bills are SUPER bright under the black light, but that 100 is a fairly weak red.
But it impresses our customers! The colored hash marks on the front of the device are handy to make sure the strip is in the right place, and the right denomination for the bill.
This man sound western when he is the same nation as me
*VIETNAM LOGIC?*
yeah... i gues???(hey im vietnamese )
Asians are getting more extreme everyday
Mà sửa lại này, là "nationality" chứ không phải là "nation", "Vietnamese Logic" chứ không phải "Vietnam Logic", hãy học tiếng Anh kỹ hơn đi.
Xin lỗi chị/Anh/Cô/Chú mà con học tiếng anh rành rồi
What's the point? All you get for spotting a fake bill is money you can't spend.
You just wasted an 100 dollar bill
Australia got plastic money!!! Not as easy now eh.
and yes I do know Australia has counterfeit money but it's harder to do and get away with it.
*has not had
Heck just recently we made that plastic money even harder to counterfeit with a bunch of new transparent segments and lightmarks.
Miles FM vietnam too, cause Australia produce for us money :v
Yay! More plastic that won't decompose filling up thousands of landfills for years to come!
This is not money. It's a Federal Reserve Bill. Real money is gold and silver.
Exactly, they don't say redeemable in gold.
Dominik Makowski except there is less value in precious metals worldwide then in goods and services.
Money (or at least government-based money) has value because we belive it has value. For example, bitcoin used to have no value. But because enough people accept bitcoin as money, bitcoin became valuable. So if enough people accept monopoly money as money, then monopoly money becomes valuable.
What to do after spotting it? Spend it and get rid of evidence without compromising own benefit
This teaches me more than school
So that's why cashiers keep taking out markers and drawing on bills when people pay for things, lol
Paul Revere never said, "The British are coming!"
Not with possible British troops and Loyalists around. Yet some might be British themselves (considering how not everybody was born in the Colonies). There's also the chance of somebody ratting him out (or warning the Redcoats that the Colonists are preparing themselves) if Revere were to shout, "The British are coming!"
He actually said, "The _REGULARS_ are _out_!!" Take it as a code Patriots understand. Or a way to get the message out without being so obvious.
why did you have to make the guy naked. why. why couldn't he have been clothed.
If I end up taking a summer job at a store I will bring my UV pen.
They forget the micro print letter, they are so tiny that it is imposible to counterfeit it
The FBI: * taking notes *
the lower wavelength has lower energy....buddy, you have no idea what you are talking about. The released energy has nothing to do with the wavelength, but all to do with amplitude of the emitted radiation. You're trying to look smart but you are misleading people instead🤣
Imma make a math joke.
I never understood why when you take a slice pie out of the tin and eat it, it does not regenerate! I always thought Pi had an INFINATE life!
I love your comment!
DON'T do any of the things on this video. If you catch a counterfeit bill, then it is illegal for you to try to spend it. If you don't know it is counterfeit, its perfectly OK. So don't look at your money too closely!
American money is all the same size. Would it be somehow possible to get rid of the ink in a 1 to get the paper. Than if you can get the ink 'villa. You just made $99.
where is the strip on a 20 dollar bill? I'm looking at these bills I just got from a friend who once before conned me a sold be fake products and now I don't trust this person so I'm wondering if these 20$ bills are real because the strip isn't located where the video is showing it should be
But. What about the money that has been stashed away for long periods of time? Hidden away or forgotten in old mattresses, attics, buried... are there other techniques for those bills?
1:16 not even TedEd got this right? Most colonists were British and he was probably too. They’re making it sound like he’s talking in 3rd person.
Why would you want to counterfeit a worthless current, at least go for the swiss franc or the chinese yuan. But better counterfeit physical currency like silver or gold.
They missed the easiest one! The shirts of the presidents (at least I am sure of the larger denominations) is textured. Just run your nail against it, it has carefully spaced grooves that give each denomination a distinct and engaging feel.
Paul Revere didn't say 'the British are coming' because most of the people are British, he really said 'the regulars are coming'
Wow can just believe this I got my cvv from Milan dumps this evening..gat your back bro.🤜🤜?
How about switching to bitcoin?...
Only thing about the counterfeit pen is most fake bills now print so the pen doesn't work. I work in retail and I asked why we don't use them and it was that simple.
What does a person do if he picked up a fake bill on the street? Throw it away? I kinda wanna take a chance on some snacks tho.
I've heard if you give it to a bank they'll give you a real one in return as long as it is a small amount.
+shoungo1 What country?
Young_ Zombling_
USA
Try to remember who gave you the bill if you can, and call the police or the local Secret Service field office.
Edward Dizon
Keep it in your "counterfeit collection".
Then again, you might get arrested.
My mom found a counterfeit $10 once. It was a pretty bad fake because it was noticeably smaller than a real bill.
just for future reference if the bill doesn’t look right just make sure you marker check it because i almost got fired for saying a real bill was counterfirt
Just give me some non starchy paper, some printer and some /₫)::&/&:@/ oh no hacker-&/'
In the Philippines, If you hold a bill against the sun you will see the face of the person imprinted on the center at the side of the bill
Some random genius will manage to make counterfeit money with the same conditions as real money because of this video.
ohh so thats why the cashier holds the money up to the sunnn ohhhhhhhhh mind blown.