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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 5369857, member: 59677"]Even most counterfeiting of bills doesn't draw attention, it's a local issue. Years ago we had a detective from the local PD do a preso at coin club. He brought a bunch on fakes to show us - the "here's what the idiots tried to pass at the local cheap gas stations" kind of stuff. Unless it was a new, good, counterfeit they didn't even bother calling the USSS - singled sided color copies, meh. For the rest, the USSS would eyeball them and usually report they were aware of these in circulation, the AUSA (Assistant US Attorney) would indicate they weren't interested in prosecution and it would bounce back to the city for "theft of service" or the like. Except for one time.  They served a warrant on a couple whose son was in jail and the parents had passed a few bad bills. Nothing serious - just wanted to ask them where the bills were coming from (some suspicion that sonny-boy was doing bad things from jail and such, running with a bad crowd and maybe got Dad involved...). There, around the fireplace were STACKS of new, banded, counterfeit 20$. $40-50K. That bust the USSS and AUSA were -very- interested in.[/QUOTE]