Add this to Your Stupid Criminal Files: Phony Billion Dollar Bills

Dyre Straits · Mar 15, 2006, 01:12 AM

A man was arrested Tuesday in California for trying to pass One Billion Dollar bills. Only problem is, there is no such thing as One Billion Dollar bills.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...archived=False

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 15, 2006, 01:30 AM

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Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe.

1934? was there even a billion dallors total in print back then lol'. I can't belive
people fell for it thking they got sme rare bill

OmegaRED · Mar 15, 2006, 04:13 PM

He was caught in Los Angeles so perhaps that explains the stupid people that fell for it.

nitrousoxide52 · Mar 15, 2006, 04:32 PM

I know that there was a $100,000 bill in circulation a long time ago, but yeah I've never heard of a 1 billion dollar bill

Yousaif · Mar 15, 2006, 06:50 PM

Oh snap!! I sure hope they get the $999,999.01 that I gave hom in change for the soda he bought!

daedal · Mar 15, 2006, 06:58 PM

I thought there was a single printing of a Billion dollar bill at some point in history?
It was a commemorative thing in between the US and some other country. Or was it a Million? Hmm.

IvanV · Mar 15, 2006, 07:07 PM

What wouldn't they try!

A little off topic, but you may want to take a look at a real bill (no longer in use).

Zelig · Mar 15, 2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by daedal

I thought there was a single printing of a Billion dollar bill at some point in history?
It was a commemorative thing in between the US and some other country. Or was it a Million? Hmm.

The trillion dollar bill to help war-torn Europe?

daedal · Mar 15, 2006, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Zelig

The trillion dollar bill to help war-torn Europe?

That would be it. Was it to Europe? Hmm. I keep learning stuff I forget. It's awesome.

***craig5320*** · Mar 15, 2006, 09:44 PM

Such Bill's exist, they're just not in circulation.

The Bank of England has £1million banknotes.

Why? Because notes issued by other banks such as the Bank of Scotland or Northern Ireland issue there own notes of Sterling, and so these banks must hold the equilvent amount in BofE notes, so instead of holding millions and millions of £50 notes, special £1m notes are produced and held by the banks. Now this is in the Uk, and may or not be relevent to the US, i don't kno how your banking system operates. But it's certainly feasible.

Anyways didn't Mr. Burns have one of those?

SSXeon · Mar 15, 2006, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by craig5320

Such Bill's exist, they're just not in circulation.

The Bank of England has £1million banknotes.

Why? Because notes issued by other banks such as the Bank of Scotland or Northern Ireland issue there own notes of Sterling, and so these banks must hold the equilvent amount in BofE notes, so instead of holding millions and millions of £50 notes, special £1m notes are produced and held by the banks. Now this is in the Uk, and may or not be relevent to the US, i don't kno how your banking system operates. But it's certainly feasible.

Anyways didn't Mr. Burns have one of those?

Thats awsome i didnt know they did that. And yeah cali ppl are retarded, (no offence to anyone here from cali, i just hated it there).