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Merchants Must Beware of Counterfeit Money
3-29-07 A recent arrest by the Fayetteville Police Department
is cause for all local merchants to be on the look out for counterfeit bills.
With advances in
computer and
photocopy technology and their cost becoming less it has made it possible
for people without sophisticated training to easily copy currency.
Many merchants and banks use a “Counterfeit Pen” to help detect counterfeit money. This pen is marked across the bill and the mark changes to a particular color to help detect a real or fake bill. This test is only to ensure that the bill is the proper paper and not the particular bill’s denomination. Counterfeiters use a process called bleaching to remove the ink off bills and reprint them as larger denominations. Merchants and banks can overcome this fraud by holding the bill up to the light to view the embedded metallic security strip that indicates the proper denomination of the bill. For more information on detecting counterfeit bills log onto the Secret Service Web site at http://www.secretservice.gov/money_detect.shtml
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