Tip to counterfeiters: don't send printer jammed with fake money out for repair

Dear Counterfeiters,

We're totally not trying to tell you how to run your business, but when the printer you're using to pump out counterfeit hundies and fiddies breaks, it's probably a good idea to remove all the fake money jammed inside of it before you send it out for repair. Otherwise you'll end up like that gang of geniuses in Arizona which just got busted this week for pumping out $160,000 in counterfeit cash.

Your friends,
Engadget

[Via El Reg]

[ela2 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Criminals=Retards
Unless your that hottie latina bank robbing chick...anybody check out her mug shots....whew!

[jojo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

i always thought it was hunnehds and fiddies.

wtf is a hundie? sounds like a cheap korean car.

[Andy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Counterfitting is a good business. The margins are great!

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Another candidate for the Darwin Award.

[Stitch @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Just don't make the margins too big, that's a dead giveaway.

[Ed @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

"The bills were made of two sheets of laser-printed paper that had been glued together..."

Wow... brilliant...

[Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Hey ela2,

You mention a hottie, but show no link? What a tease. :)

[Dario @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

From TFA: Responsible for 10% of counterfeit money in Arizona...had printed $160,000 in cash.

That means that there is $1,600,000 in counterfeit money in Arizona. Wow.

[jnasato @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

"While some people may think that counterfeiting money is a white-collar crime, often people involved in it are hardcore criminals"

Yah. Gluing together laser-printed paper from scanned bills... SO HARDCORE, HOLY SHIT!!!!!

[brandon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

when i was little i tried drawing money and using it to buy candy.

the corner store guy thought it was cute so he gave me free candy.

[Meghann @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

two sheets glued together... i guess duplex printing was too complicated for these criminal master minds. 0_o

[andy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

As technology gets smarter, criminals get dumber...

[fogd00d @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

I half expected Motorola 3G Victim to post here saying "how else are poor folk supposed to buy luxury vehicles, foo?"

[Robert @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Re #11: Actually, that's probably deliberate, though they'd have done better to get thicker, more 'luxurious paper'... because regular paper is lighter than bills.