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Originally Posted by Adebisi
It's kind of unfortunate that the counterfeiter put all that effort in to getting everything else perfect and screwed the pen test up. A couple of months ago I watched one of those cable true crime shows about a moderately successful counterfeiter. He ended up buying one of those pens and then just had his girlfriend spend several days testing it on thousands of different kinds of paper. Eventually he found something that worked. (IIRC it was something silly like phone book pages) All of the other features on his bills were somewhat off though. Like store clerks would look at the money a bit suspiciously but reluctantly take it after it passed the pen test, and it would get immediately flagged once it hit a bank.
Think I saw the same show.
IIRC, the secret was to spray Aquanet on the money after it was printed (other hairsprays didn't work).