US Customs Agents Seizes 250 Counterfeit Billion Dollar Bills, page 1
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Topic started on 16-3-2006 @ 01:09 AM by Beachcoma
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?
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