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Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year.
A Wyoming man has been charged with counterfeiting money to pay an exotic dancer for a private performance. Rickey A. Kempter, 50, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Federal authorities have recovered a counterfeit copy of a 1939 watercolor by artist Andrew Wyeth.
Law enforcement officials and business owners across the country say they have seen a significant spike in the circulation of counterfeit currency since the economy started to sour.
Police have arrested a man for trying to pass a fake $100 bill at McDonald's, leading to a find of $16,000 more in counterfeit C-notes. Police said the man was arrested Monday after an employee at McDonald's reported someone trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill. A preliminary investigation led police to find $6,200 in counterfeit $100s in his possession.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men with conspiring to sell counterfeit video slot machines bearing the name of Reno-based International Game Technology.
Police in Washington state say they've captured three people who bought Girl Scout cookies with counterfeit $20 bills. Troop 40411 leader KC Gettings says she went to a bank Saturday to get change and was told she had two counterfeit $20 bills.
NFL jerseys of almost every team were crammed into Junior Raphael Prentice's flea market booth. He had the Steelers, Cardinals, even an old Green Bay Packers jersey from Hall of Famer Reggie White — with the name "White" upside down on the back.
TAMPA, Fla. - The contraband lie in heaps on the floor, piled there by more than a dozen federal and local law enforcement officials. The haul's street value was pegged at $500,000, but authorities said that’s just a drop in the bucket on this front of the never-ending war on crime.
Every time I give a talk on the luxury business today and I get to the subject of counterfeiting, the same thing happens. The room grows absolutely silent as I put forth the facts: It is estimated that up to 7 percent of our annual world trade — $600 billion worth — is counterfeit or pirated; that fakes are believed to be directly responsible for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs; that everything from baby formula to medicine is counterfeited, with tragic results; that counterfeiters and the crime syndicates they work with deal in human trafficking, child labor and gang warfare; and that counterfeiting is used to launder money, and the money has been linked to truly sinister deeds such as terrorism.
Ten tons of chocolate bonbons could stuff a lot of stockings this holiday season — but instead they will be under the lock and key of French customs agents.
Phony coyotes set up to discourage ducks and geese from gobbling up seeds and fresh shoots from wetlands plants didn't fool the fowl, but humans were another matter. Hammond Port Authority Director Milan Kruszynski said his office has fielded several calls from passing motorists who mistook the two-dimensional cutouts on islands in Wolf Lake for dogs.
A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.
Police and prosecutors on Long Island say they've seized $25 million in counterfeit Nike sneakers and other trademark knockoffs. Two men linked to the operation have been arrested.
Police say it was no surprise a bogus $50 bill got a Long Island man arrested: He was trying to use it to pay his bail on a traffic charge. The transaction compounded Cyheam Forney's legal problems and landed him in jail.
A counterfeiting ring stole U.S. Treasury checks from cargo at Newark Liberty International Airport, created sophisticated copies and cashed $2 million worth of bogus paper, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Police raided a major hub for counterfeit goods in Chinatown on Tuesday, seizing more than $1 million of fake Gucci, Prada, Fendi, Rolex and Coach merchandise. The two-month probe by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Office of Special Enforcement focused on an area of downtown Manhattan that has long been notorious for the wide array of knockoffs for sale on the street.
A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and trying to use the computer there to make counterfeit money.
A pizzeria owner has been accused of making his own dough, counterfeit money, in a room behind the oven. Police said Wednesday that they found $6,000 in fake bills, along with printing equipment and cutting devices, in a back office at The Brick Oven Pizza Shop, near the village Police Department.
Authorities seized nearly 160,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sneakers and arrested six people accused of selling fake purses, software and other items worth more than $7 million, prosecutors said Thursday.
China's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water.
Somebody handed a group of Girl Scouts a bogus $50 bill and left with three boxes of their famous cookies and $40.25 in change, police said Wednesday. Volunteer Catherine Prior was helping her daughter and other Girl Scouts selling cookies last week outside a grocery store in Louisville, about 20 miles north of Denver, when a man bought one box each of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos, paid with the $50 and left, according to a police report.
Police knew this Bill wasn't authentic. A man has been arrested for trying to use a $100 bill with no president's face and the name of former President Clinton.
Counterfeit Condoms A Problem In ChinaFour people were arrested at the factory which was distributing illicit condoms nationwide that provided little or no protection and carried the risk of both pregnancy and disease.
Don't Hit That Send Button Without Checking Your FactsNot sure what it should cost to restore ones reputation and standing in the community, but Target, or Target's Agent, made a big mistake. Check your facts.
Thailand: Fakery, enshrinedIt turns out the phony Ferrari, that tour de force of fakery whipped up recently in a Thai backstreet garage (with a Subaru engine, alas), isn't here. But there's a counterfeit Yamaha scooter in mint condition propped up on its stand.
Woman Sues LIRR After Detained For 'Fake' Ticket -A woman from Jericho has launched a $500,000 lawsuit against the Long Island Rail Road and Metropolitan Transportation Authority cops, claiming she was held for more than three hours after a conductor wrongfully accused her of using a counterfeit ticket.
Clean Coal Gets Dirtier - Sends Fake Letters to Members of CongressIf you haven't been keeping tabs on clean coal's latest swindle, this should make you shudder. Not only is clean coal the epitome of an oxymoron, the picture it paints of its represented industry is downright false. Show me one active commercial scale clean coal plant.
India to take up fake currency note issue at global fora - India - NEWS - The Times of IndiaWith a number of states reporting huge seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs), India will soon take up the issue at global fora, like Interpol, in a big way and will also ask some European countries to keep a watch on importers of currency-standard printing paper and i …
Foxconn suicide turns spotlight on China counterfeitingOne week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone?
Counterfeiters fake Swiss trash sacksCounterfeiters who already earn money from fake Swiss watches and army knives have now turned to making a business out of fake Swiss rubbish bags.
Woman Says Money Too Fake To Be Felony V The Supreme Court has refused to hear arguments from a Wal-Mart cashier who said the fake money she agreed to take from counterfeiters was so poorly made
Six arrested in counterfeit DVD stingOn Saturday, six people were arrested and accused of selling counterfeit DVD'S.
Mafia Blamed for $134bn Fake Treasury Bills$134 billion in U.S. Treasury bills found in a suitcase are "most probably counterfeit, the latest handiwork of the Italian Mafia."
How to Spot Counterfeit Money - DivineCarolineIt used to be that spotting a "good" counterfeit bill was impossible for ordinary people. If it was good enough to pass the "look and feel" test, then it was going to take an ultra-violet light or a magnetic ink detector.
Strange Inconsistencies in the $134.5 Billion Bearer Bond Mystery -- Seeking AlphaOn March 30, 2009, the US Treasury Department announced that $134.5 billion remained in its Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP].
2 Japanese Nationals Carrying $134 BILLION worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy Two Japanese nationals were detained by Italian financial police last week after trying to enter Switzerland with $134 billion worth of undeclared U.S. bonds, mostly Treasury bonds, an Italian daily said Wednesday.
Nuclear bomb tests help to identify fake whiskyRadioactive material flung into the atmosphere by nuclear bomb tests is helping scientists to fight the multi-million pound trade in counterfeit antique malt whisky.
Counterfeit DVDs found in Oklahoma City market raidBefore a federal raid, bargain hunters at the Old Paris Flea Market in Oklahoma City could buy counterfeit DVDs of movies still in theaters if they went to the right booth, court records show. "Everybody knew it," said one seller, Tim Hearns.
Girl Scouts troops ripped off when scammer uses counterfeit bills to buy cookiesWho would ripoff pint-sized Girl Scouts? That's what the girls in Troop 40411 in Bremerton, Wash., are asking after a scammer used counterfeit $20 bills to buy cookies from them, according to report by King5 News in Seattle.
Gang of pensioners convicted for running Britain's biggest counterfeiting operationThe forgers printed more than £5 million worth of almost faultless fake £20 and 50 Euro notes from the front room of Dennis Hancox's house in Chiswick, south west London.
Woman Twice Tried To Use Counterfeit Check, Cops SayExcerpt: Nayshamish Hampton tried buying $1,200 in merchandise from Walmart using a counterfeit check, Plant City police say.
Woman exchanges Monopoly money for Danish kronerBut the 61-year-old may be left needing a "get out of jail" card after a second attempt to exchange the toy cash backfired.
Painter finds fakes at art showA leading Indian artist has said he was "stupefied and outraged" to find that many of his paintings at a show he was inaugurating were fakes.
Even fake money isn't what it used to beThe Secret Service agent in Kansas City peered hard at a counterfeit $100 bill, ran a finger over it and grimaced in disgust. It was bad, ugly work.
Woman: Bank Gave Me Fake $100 BillA Palatka woman said a bank gave her a fake $100 bill that she tried to use at a Wal-Mart. Sonya Small, 37, said she tried to pay for her purchases with the bill but was told it was fake. See more irresistible headlines
The first thing that strikes me about the Shroud of Turin is that the face that appears in the negative image I think is not the face of a first century Jew but rather the stylized Medieval representation of a Caucasian Jesus of Nazareth.
South South Governors Served Fake DrinksA LEADING supermarket in Bayelsa State was yesterday alleged to have sold fake drinks for the entertainment of South-South governors during a meeting. The state governor, Timipre Sylva subsequently ordered the immediate closure of the supermarket.
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