If you’re going to forge money and try to pass it off as legit, you should probably not go for the top dollar. Especially when it doesn’t exist.
Police say a man tried to open an account with a $1 million bill, which does not exist. The teller refused and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, said Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.
Alexander D. Smith, 31, of Augusta, Ga., was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery, Frank said.
The question here: Is he that stupid, or that daring, that he thought he could get away with it?
I’m voting for stupid.
What an eeeediot.
The $100 note is the biggest one in use today, although the old large-denomination notes ($500, $1000, $5000, $10,000, and $100,000) still exist and are legal tender, although circulation has been stopped since 1969.
But you’d raise quite a few eyebrows if you waltzed into the local bank and tried to open an account with any of those.
The first rule of forgers and counterfeiters: “Keep a low profile, dumbass.”
… that and do your homework. Make sure the object of your forgery actually exists before trying to pass your fake as real.
What this guy did is as ridiculous as trying to sell a Rembrandt portrait of Bill Clinton.
This sort of reminds me of the following excerpt from The Simpsons: