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by Mike Masnick


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When Sending Out Your Jammed Printer For Repair, First Remove Counterfeit Money

from the just-a-suggestion dept

Criminals don't have to be particularly intelligent, of course. However, if you're counterfeiting money -- lots of money, from what's being said -- and your printer gets jammed full of the fake stuff, you might want to remove the fake bills before sending it out for repairs. It appears that some criminals didn't think things through very carefully, leading to the investigation and arrest of a counterfeiting ring, that the FBI claims was responsible for 10% of all counterfeit money in the state of Arizona. Of course, what's scary is if a people like that could get away with counterfeiting so much for so long, just imagine what slightly more clever people might be able to get away with.

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  1. No Subject Given

    by Anonymous Coward - Nov 17th, 2005 @ 3:33pm

    oh well.
    dumb people will be dumb.

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  2. US money blows

    by QuantumG - Nov 17th, 2005 @ 3:36pm

    Just try counterfeiting Australian money.

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  3. Re: No Subject Given

    by Luke - Nov 17th, 2005 @ 5:43pm

    um...couldnt they just...BUY a new printer???

    I hate people..so stupid!

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  4. Re: No Subject Given

    by z0idberg - Nov 18th, 2005 @ 2:01am

    "um...couldnt they just...BUY a new printer???"

    they would, but they need the printer to work, so that they can print some money, to buy a new printer.

    its vicquite a conundrum.

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  5. Re: No Subject Given

    by hautedawg - Nov 19th, 2005 @ 10:54am

    I see stupid people...and get well paid for it, wait, let me check this bills....

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