This is really really amusing. They caught a man with bogus billion dollar bills. That's right,
billion dollar bills. Now, who could be so
dumb as to be fooled by this??
You
got change for a Grover Cleveland, pal?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.
U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency
smuggling.
Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United
States in January.
Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an
issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.
"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a
secret services agent involved in the probe.
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Perhaps the guy was preparing for the day when hyperinflation will set in and billion dollar notes become a reality?