Forgeries

• Mar-7-2024

  United States – Free educational material on American banknotes available.

  The Treasury Department offers at https://www.uscurrency.gov/ educational material to help bank tellers recognize forgeries of American banknotes. These are available...

• Dec-20-2023

  England – New high quality forgery of 20 pounds banknotes.

  High quality forgeries of the current polymer 20 pounds banknotes (GBP-BoE20.5) are being passed in Spain. A local Bureau de...

• Apr-3-2023

  How to properly use your banknote counting machine to identify fake dollar bills.

  There are two things you must do to have a better chance to avoid accepting counterfeit dollar bills:    ...

• Apr-1-2023

  United States of America – Dangerous forgeries of 100 dollars Series 2006 banknotes.

                            Genuine Note       Banco de España...

• Mar-28-2023

  United States – Forgeries of 100 dollar notes of the 2006 Series are been passed in Europe.

                         Genuine Note       Excellent quality “Super dollar”...

• Jan-10-2023

  Iraq – Will current notes of 25,000 dinars be replaced by new ones of 20,000 dinars?

    Mustafa Ghaleb Makhaif, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, confirmed on Sunday that there are 4 benefits for issuing...

• Dec-19-2022

  Trinidad and Tobago – Counterfeit polymer banknotes of 100 dollars.

  Trinidadian counterfeit polymer notes of 100 dollars (TTD100.5) are being found in alarming quantities. The forgeries are of excellent quality,...

• Jul-15-2022

  Cayman Islands – Forgery of 100 dollars notes.

  A small quantity of counterfeit 100 dollar Cayman banknotes (KYD100.4) were seized in June in Bodden Town. All bear the...

• Jul-10-2022

  Australia – Many counterfeit 50 and 100 dollars notes are being passed.

  Forged Australian notes of 50 dollars (AUD50.2) and 100 dollars (AUD100.2) of the first issue are being passed in Australia’s...

• Apr-26-2022

  Bahamas – Counterfeits notes of the “CRISP” Evolution family.

    The Central Bank of the Bahamas has issued advisories about counterfeit banknotes of 5o dollars (BSD50.5) and 100 dollars (BSD100.5) of...

• Mar-18-2022

  Myanmar – Is Russia involved in the printing of Burmese banknotes?

  Giesecke+Devrient has suspended in early 2021 the printing of Burmese banknotes in response of growing violence following the military coup...

• Feb-3-2022

  United States of America -Banknote forgeries.

  The newspaper IProfesional published in Buenos Aires, Argentina has published today a very informative article about U.S. dollar forgeries which...

• Jul-30-2021

  Cuba – Forgeries of 1,000 pesos banknotes.

     You saw it first here… It has been reported in social media that there are forged banknotes of 1,000...

• Aug-9-2020

  Brazil – Spurious notes of 200 reais.

  FORGERY – FALSO – COUNTREFAIT – FALSCH WORTHLESS – SIN VALOR – SANS VALEUR – WERTLOS    You saw it here...

• Jun-30-2020

  Romania – “World’s best forger” of polymer notes apprehended.

  Romanian authorities arrested members of a criminal network responsible for the counterfeiting of thousands of 100 lei polymer banknotes (RON100.1A). ...

• Mar-5-2020

  Saudi Arabia – On presenting counterfeit banknotes for exchange.

  New rules establish that if someone presents outmoded or unfit banknotes for redemption at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority. and...

• Feb-26-2019

  Zimbabwe – Forged 100 trillion notes.

                      GENUINE NOTE                  ...

• Feb-10-2019

  Congo Democratic Republic – No new banknotes.

  According to an article published by Media Congo in 14 November 2018, up to that time the new banknotes announced...

• Jan-10-2019

  Myanmar – Forgeries of 10,000 kyat notes.

  News about forged notes of 10,000 kyats (MMK10,000.1 and MMK10,000.2) have led many merchants in Myanmar to refuse them. Several people caught...