How do counterfeit money?

In spite of the fact that counterfeiters are now threatened with capture of considerable terms, counterfeit money was printed and printed.

Counterfeiting can be made in the following ways:

1. Using an inkjet printer. It is not so expensive, the print quality is constantly improving and improving, but there are no security elements on the counterfeit banknote and the picture is blurred. Any more or less attentive person will distinguish counterfeit money printed on an inkjet printer from real ones.
2. Using a color laser printer. The drawing on the output turns out to be more perfect, bright, it is not washed off by water. But with close examination, especially under the magnifying glass, it becomes obvious that the image consists of small dots, and the banknote has no watermarks.
3. Silk screen printing. The counterfeit money obtained by this method can be distinguished from the real ones by the touch, since the drawing turns out to be bold and voluminous.
4. Offset printing. The money received in this way can only be distinguished from the real by a specialist.

Sometimes, to earn money on gullible citizens, counterfeiters and print nothing. Periodically, media outlets describe cases when elderly pensioners were allegedly being addressed by representatives of social protection services with proposals to exchange all of their savings for "new" money that were signed: "ticket of jokes" or "one hundred Russian bucks". Conceived as comic, they were submitted to trusting citizens disguised as real ones.

Another option is to change the denomination of the banknote. One dollar turns into 10, and 10 into one hundred. On such rough forgery often come across foreign tourists or illiterate immigrants from the near abroad, who do not know what real bills look like.

Sometimes criminals make counterfeit money from the real ones - they cut off watermarks and protection, the remainders are exchanged in the bank as a damaged banknote, at par. A protection is attached to a new banknote.

By the way, they counterfeit not only paper money, but also coins. Of course, an ordinary dozen or five-kopecks will not be forged, but a rare copy for a collector, worth several thousand (or even tens of thousands of rubles), can be found. Counterfeiting of coins is a troublesome business, you can not manage one printer here. Fakes cast, re-stamped, cut down part of the "native" pattern, and then soldered the other, thereby increasing the cost.

The most popular fake in the US is a hundred dollar bill. In Russia - 1000 rubles. This is understandable, because a thousand now - one of the most running banknotes. In addition, 5000 denominations are less common, which means that more attention is paid to checking them, it's easier to remember the person who sells the fakes. One hundred and five-ruble banknotes do not make much sense, since the cost of production will not pay off.

Forgery of money for sale is prosecuted by law. A counterfeiter, whose guilt will be proven in court, awaits imprisonment for up to 8 years and a fine of up to 1 million. Manufacturing, storage and transportation of counterfeit banknotes, government securities or coins on a large scale threatens with imprisonment up to 12 years. Falsification of money by a group of persons threatens all participants with imprisonment up to 15 years.

It does not matter how long the person has been dealing with this business, whether he sold one bill, or their account was transferred to thousands. True, there must be good reasons for arrest. Law enforcement authorities are not enough to catch the hand of the seller. It is necessary to prove that during the transfer he knew that the bill or coin was false, and not simply purchased the goods for delivery from an hour earlier exchanged banknotes.

How to protect yourself against fakes? Counterfeit money is often without any watermarks and protective strips, so to begin with, it would be nice to test them for light. If you have doubts about the authenticity, put a new bill together with the old one and compare them or contact for checking in the nearest store or bank.