Frank Bourassa, who figured out what to do, just did it, returned home and began to study how to print money.
Just print some money.
As a Canadian, Frank Bourassa felt that he could not touch Canadian dollars because he was in Canada. Touching Canadian dollars would easily attract the attention of the police. The risk was too great. Frank Bourassa, who had already been in jail once, did not want to go to jail again. .
So he targeted the U.S. dollar, the currency with the largest circulation and widest circulation in the world, and also the banknote with the most counterfeits.
In Frank Bourassa's mind, as long as he makes a small fuss, he will not attract the attention of the American police, and there are a lot of counterfeit U.S. dollar bills on the market, so the risk of making U.S. dollars is minimal.
It’s just that the U.S. dollar has denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, etc.
With Frank Bourassa's ability, it is impossible to do all denominations, and he can only choose one denomination for death attack.
Which denomination of dollars to make.
Frank Bourassa thought about it carefully. The two relatively large amounts of U.S. dollars, 50 and 100, could not be touched. First, large amounts of U.S. dollars were not highly circulated and could easily be traced by the police.
Secondly, for large amounts of U.S. dollars, people pay more attention when using them and often use banknote detectors.
Frank Bourassa felt that no matter how capable he was, it would still be difficult to make U.S. dollars that could deceive the banknote detector, so he gave up.
The U.S. dollars with denominations of 1, 2, 5, and 10 are too small, the printing cost is too high, and it is very troublesome to sell. After thinking about it, Frank Bourassa chose the U.S. dollar banknote with a denomination of 20 yuan as the target for imitation. .
The 20-dollar bill is a currency commonly used by people in the United States in their daily lives. Like the 10-yuan in RMB, it is the currency with the greatest circulation.
Because of the large circulation, if people find a fake $20 in their hands during use, they usually look for opportunities to spend it or throw it away because they think they are unlucky. The possibility of calling the police is very small.
Since there are so many benefits, Frank Bourassa naturally sets his goal on 20 yuan
Just how to make it?
Frank Bourassa first exchanged a batch of 20-dollar bills from the bank and carefully observed the characteristics of the 20-dollar bills.
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Of course, just seeing it with the naked eye is not enough. Cracking the anti-counterfeiting marks on U.S. banknotes requires a wealth of professional knowledge. For this reason, Frank Bourassa devoted all his efforts and energy and began a struggle that would not give up until the goal was achieved.
If Frank Bourassa had worked hard when he was in school, he would have been able to get into a good university even if he couldn't graduate with a doctorate.
However, life cannot be assumed.
In order to crack the US dollar banknotes, Frank Bourassa searched for knowledge about the US dollar banknotes on the Internet. He found that the US government had published a large amount of US dollar anti-counterfeiting knowledge and anti-counterfeiting marks on the website in order to increase people's awareness of anti-counterfeiting.
For ordinary people, this knowledge is used to identify counterfeit banknotes, but Frank Bourassa regarded this as technical guidance for making counterfeit banknotes.
Of course, it is impossible to replicate exactly the same banknotes just by relying on these defense technologies. It is a no-brainer.
Because in addition to the published anti-counterfeiting marks, US dollar bills also have a large number of hidden, sophisticated anti-counterfeiting technologies. These technologies are top secret and very few people know about them.
Unless it's the guy who shoots the currency detector.
Frank Bourassa also knew this. He knew that it was impossible for him to create banknotes that could hide from the banknote detector, but he was not worried about this because he was not facing the banknote detector in the bank.
So for counterfeit banknotes with a face value of 20 yuan, it is faced with ordinary people. As long as he can deceive the naked eyes and feel of ordinary people, he has succeeded.
In order to thoroughly understand this thin banknote, Frank Bourassa, who is extremely capable, is said to have studied for more than a year and finally mastered all the technical details visible to the naked eye on the 20-dollar bill.
Once the template is done, the next step is to prepare materials and equipment.
First up is the printing press!
Ordinary prints only need to print ink, pigments, etc. on white paper. Considering people's viewing habits and costs, the printing machines are all letterpress.
The banknote printing press is different, using a very rare gravure printing press.
This kind of printing technology is not advanced and the printing cost is also very high. It is only used in a few areas. However, because it is related to banknotes, it is strictly controlled by countries around the world and it is difficult to buy it on the market.
Frank Bourassa spent a lot of effort to find an old gravure printing machine that was almost scrapped on the second-hand market. Although it could not be used and could only be sold as a commodity, Frank Bourassa found a treasure and quickly sold it. I bought this machine that was no longer working.
After that, Frank Bourassa began to learn the technology of repairing printing presses. With the superb skills he learned in the garage and hard work, the machine was able to operate normally after a few months.
Although compared with the special printing machine for US dollar bills, this old gravure printing machine is very different.
But as mentioned earlier, the old gravure printing machines are used by ordinary citizens, not money printing machines, and they cannot tell this small difference.
After getting the gravure printing machine, Frank Bourassa began to look for the ink, anti-counterfeiting marks, and paper needed to print banknotes.
After hard work, Frank Bourassa gradually solved the problems of ink, printing plate, etc., and finally got stuck on the banknote printing paper.
The paper used to print US dollar bills is very special. It is what we often call acid-free paper. It seems to be made of 75% cotton and 25% linen, but it is also mixed with many other ingredients and has a special formula to make it. come out.
The feel of this kind of paper is very special and very different from ordinary paper. Even ordinary people can feel whether ordinary counterfeit money is real money or counterfeit money by touching it with their hands.
There are very few printing houses that print special paper for U.S. dollars. There is only one factory in the entire United States that can do it, and they have only one customer: the Federal Reserve.
certainly!
No matter how long something is kept secret, it will no longer be a secret.
Not to mention that there are so many banknotes in the world, many of which are technically supported by the United States. In this case, the formula of special paper for US banknotes is not a secret, and many paper mills know it and can produce it.
It's just that no one touches it. The United States is the most powerful country in the world, and no one wants to cause this trouble. The scope of use of this kind of paper is really too narrow.
In order to get acid-free paper, Frank Bourassa, like the painter and others in the movie Warriors, called paper manufacturers to ask if they could produce this paper for him.
Almost all manufacturers hung up the phone as soon as they heard about this kind of paper. No one wanted to get into trouble, even if they could make money.
However, capitalist countries have money to push the envelope. After Frank Bourassa made countless phone calls, a paper mill in Europe finally expressed interest in this order.
They were willing to provide Frank Bourassa with acid-free paper, but they asked Frank Bourassa what he wanted the special material for.
Frank was well prepared for this and lied that he was a financial company and had a contract with a bank in the United States to issue a batch of corporate bonds and needed this kind of paper to print the bonds.
This rationale made sense, after Frank Bourassa sent forged contracts and documents to the company.
The other party was willing to provide services and signed a supply contract with Frank Bourassa, allowing Frank Bourassa to easily obtain a large amount of paper for printing U.S. banknotes.
Soon, a large amount of white paper was sent from Europe to Canada. It did not arouse suspicion when passing through customs. After all, it was white paper and not contraband.
certainly!
There is a difference between the acid-free paper provided by this European company and the special paper for US dollar bills.
The business of printing money is in deep water and is not as simple as it seems.
But as mentioned before, Frank Bourassa's customers are ordinary people. He doesn't want them to be 100% identical, as long as the paper is more than 90% similar.
After getting the paper, Frank Bourassa found a few close friends, worked day and night in his factory, and soon printed U.S. dollars.
Looking at the printed U.S. dollars, Frank Bourassa and his friends were very excited. Everyone with the U.S. dollars was so happy that they got rich. They got rich. If they could print money directly, they would definitely become tens of millions or even billionaires. .
However, everyone will soon calm down.
Printing money is only the first step, the key is to spend it.
Although they themselves cannot tell whether the printed money is real or home, they still have to try it for safety.
So Frank Bourassa drove to the border town of Beautiful Country with hundreds of counterfeit coins and spent the money with his own hands.
Needless to say, the effect is surprisingly good.
When buying something in the store, when the cashier took the banknotes handed over by Frank Bourassa, he didn't even care and put the money directly into the cashier.
After wandering around the border town, hundreds of counterfeit bills were spent without any suspicion.
The test was successful.
Frank Bourassa, who returned to the secret factory, ordered the money printing press to turn all the paper into banknotes, printing approximately $250 million worth of counterfeit 20-dollar bills.
Once the money comes out, how to spend it becomes a problem.
If it's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, Frank Bourassa and his friends can still spend a little bit.
More than 200 million yuan is still a counterfeit 20 yuan note. If you spend it yourself, you will never be able to spend it in your lifetime. You can only sell it to people who specialize in making counterfeit notes.
Because he had stolen cars, sold marijuana, and served time in prison, Frank Bourassa was very familiar with local gangsters and had heard about the channels for selling counterfeit money.
So he contacted the New York gang through his connections and asked them if they had any need for counterfeit money.
Facing Frank Bourassa who came to the door, the gangsters expressed interest, but they had to see the goods first and determine the quality before deciding whether to buy or not.
So Frank Bourassa hit the road with a sack of counterfeit money.
After the face-to-face contact, Frank Bourassa produced the counterfeit money.
When the gangsters saw the counterfeit money Frank Bourassa took out, they were all stunned.
Because the banknotes could not be distinguished with the naked eye or by touch, they felt that Frank Bourassa was tricking them with the real money.
But when I used the banknote detector, I found that it was really a counterfeit banknote and could not pass the banknote detector.
Needless to say the result.
The gangsters ate all the counterfeit banknotes brought by Frank Bourassa and sold them at 30% of the face value, and said they could conduct a second transaction.
With the first business came the second. Frank Bourassa's business opened up a market in the beautiful country and sold counterfeit banknotes with a face value of 50 million US dollars in a short period of time.
After deducting the costs and the shares of his friends, Frank Bourassa made a profit of more than 10 million US dollars and became a multi-millionaire.
However, what worried Frank Bourassa happened.
With the help of gangsters, the counterfeit 20-dollar bills printed by Frank Bourassa quickly spread throughout the United States. Because the expansion speed was too fast, it attracted the attention of the FBI.
It’s funny to say.
There are also a lot of beautiful counterfeit banknotes in the country, and many people are better than Frank Bourassa, but the FBI is very interested in this new counterfeit banknote because it is so realistic.
Although it cannot pass the banknote detector and cannot enter the bank, it is unimpeded among ordinary people and is no different from real banknotes.
This is a bit troublesome.
There are not many counterfeit 20-yuan bills on the market now, and tens of millions at most will have little impact.
But who knows how many counterfeit banknotes manufacturers have in their hands.
You know, counterfeit banknotes can be printed unlimitedly as long as the materials are available.
Tens of millions is not terrible, but hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions or hundreds of billions is a very scary number. In serious cases, it may even cause an economic crisis. This counterfeit banknote gang must be destroyed.
So the FBI began to investigate Frank Bourassa.
Although Frank Bourassa was very cautious and asked his friends not to spend counterfeit money in Canada and not leave any loopholes.
But in the face of a national power like the FBI, even if there were no flaws, Frank Bourassa could still be traced.
Frank Bourassa was soon arrested and prepared to be extradited to the United States for trial.
At this time, Frank Bourassa's caution saved him.
Because he did not commit a crime in Canada, he did not violate Canadian criminal laws. This gave Frank Bourassa the opportunity to plead with the judge.
he told the judge.
He has printed a total of $250 million in counterfeit $20 bills, $50 million of which has been sold, and about $200 million in counterfeit bills he has hidden.
He said that he could hand over the counterfeit banknotes to prevent disrupting the financial market. He would just commute his sentence and not extradite the beautiful country.
Because the $200 million that Frank Bourassa mentioned was never found, the Canadian judge decided to make a deal with Frank Bourassa. Anyway, he was not increasing the crime, so just give him a chance.
So after Frank Bourassa handed over 200 million US dollars in counterfeit banknotes, he was only allowed to pay a fine of 1,350 Canadian dollars and was released in court.
The money he earned from selling counterfeit banknotes became his legal income, allowing Frank Bourassa to rise from an ordinary wealthy man to a multi-millionaire.
What’s even funnier is.
Because of Frank Bourassa's high level of making counterfeit banknotes, the Canadian police also hired Frank Bourassa with a high salary as their counterfeit banknote identification consultant. This made Frank Bourassa a blessing in disguise and became a public servant.
Successfully staged a counterattack legend that shocked countless people.
