"Euro" Makes It Easy To Destabilize Europe..

[Lost Cause]

With a single trade currency, a hostile country only has to focus on making a good proof of the Euro, instead of multiple international banknotes. It won't take that long before the fake currency will destabilize the "Euro" concept. What do you think?

THESSALONIKI, Greece - A businessman was arrested after depositing 125 counterfeit 200-euro bills at a bank in northern Greece, police said Monday.

It was first case in Greece involving the high-value bank notes, normally avoided by forgers because their advanced security features.

Police said the 47-year-old man — who was not named — was arrested, and two of his business associates had been questioned. All three men denied any knowledge of the money being fake.

Authorities who examined the money described its production as sophisticated.

The euro is potentially attractive to forgers because it is used in 12 European Union countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

Most previous cases of forgery in Greece have involved 50-euro bills.

Security features on the high-value notes include foil strips, holograms and color-shifting ink.

*All safeguards can be obtained commercially, just like when the fake American currency came out before the new bills were even released!

 

[p_p_man]

With a single trade currency, a hostile country only has to focus on making a good proof of the Euro, instead of multiple international banknotes. It won't take that long before the fake currency will destabilize the "Euro" concept. What do you think?

A CALL TO ARMS MES BRAVES!!

We must protect our God's given right to have a single currency at all costs.

Death to the YANKEE Imperialists...

Death to the RUSSIAN mafia...

Death to JEWISH money lenders...

Death to the ARAB zealots...

And death to EVERYONE ELSE...

The Euro shall prevail, the Euro is strong, the Euro is just...

The Euro spits in the eye of the world...

"...Ode to Joy..."



ppman

 

[HeavyStick]

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[Problem Child]

DEATH to boring one-trick Englishmen.

 

[Bondagebunni]

does that guy scare anyone else?

 

[Problem Child]

does that guy scare anyone else?

Naw, he mostly just makes us giggle and forces us to remember that all of Britain is not brain damaged.

 

[HeavyStick]

does that guy scare anyone else?

No, drunks are easy to push over.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Counterfeits won't have be that much of an economic problem until you get a ratio of 5:1.

"Hey sam, I am going to put this money I got from my mutual funds into a swiss bank account so that I can secretly pay for hookers"
"OMG NO TED! There are a bunch of fake euros. Lost Cause posted an article that had the ode to a grecian dude who made some fakes. I guess every european does that. That's not ."
"OMG NEVER FORGET"
"I won't!"
"ok"
"..."
"Thank you sam for saving my money and my marriage and my house and my pets. To thank you I will spray my hot man semen all over your face before I kill myself by slowly increasing the water temperature of a hot tub!"
"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

P.S. If Banks only have to focus on one currency, wouldn't that make it so they could recognize fakes more easily and also form better methods of detection?

 

[Coolville]

THESSALONIKI, Greece - A businessman was arrested after depositing 125 counterfeit 200-euro bills at a bank in northern Greece, police said Monday.

Police said the 47-year-old man — who was not named — was arrested, and two of his business associates had been questioned. All three men denied any knowledge of the money being fake.

Talk about taking an irrelvant article and trying to milk it for conspiracy theories!

I, for one, am outrageously frightened of this 47 year old Greek and his two chums and their devilish plot to overthrow the EU. I think I'll go and get a haircut.

 

[Rocket88]

... To thank you I will spray my hot man semen all over your face before I kill myself by slowly increasing the water temperature of a hot tub!"
"GOD BLESS AMERICA"...

I came. 5

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

I'd say that is a good enough reason for a pre-emptive strike on Greece.

Them slimey cunts need their population steadied a bit.

Plenty of oil over there for you Yankee fuckers. The greeks are covered in it.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Dubya: Hey Greece has oil! Let's invade.

Advisor: The oil comes from olives, Sir.

Dubya: It's Olive's, eh? Sounds like a terrorist to me. Let's go in and liberate it for the US of A.

Advisor: No, Sir. I mean it's olive oil.

Dubya: They've kidnapped Olive Oyl? Damned greeks. Break out the spinach and get me Popeye. Where is Greece anyway?

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: "Euro" Makes It Easy To Destabilize Europe..

I, for one, am outrageously frightened of this 47 year old Greek and his two chums and their devilish plot to overthrow the EU.

I'm not afraid of this Greek and his chum, but I am a bit concerned about how amny more fake Euro bills were made by the same people who passed 125 of them off on this guy.

The people who made the bills aren't dumb enough to deposit 125 of them at one time -- this guy was arrestd for passing the bills on NOT for making them.

 

[Coolville]

Despite the attractiveness of the euro to forgerers, the dollar remains the currency most likely to be faked. This is due to the ease of counterfeiting the dollars, compared with the state of the art euro notes - even with the new US notes.

Colombian cartels falsify two thirds of the fake dollars made outside of the United States and counterfeiting dollars is on the rise in the former Soviet countries.

So who should be worried?

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Check every note. And make sure you know what a real one is like - feel, colour, metallic strips, water marks...

Got given a dodgy fiver once. Check every one now no matter who gives it to me.

 

[Lost Cause]

Okay.....

Doesn't seem to be taken lightly here; http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/FactSheets/FS200104.asp

Most counterfeit notes are made by moderate budget criminal elements. If you can pour several million dolars into a proof, you can duplicate watermarks, texture, and foils that can be undetectable. The goal wouldn't be to get rich, it would be to create a unstable value to the currency. (Germany was trying to do that with British pound notes in WW2) Not a conspiracy theory, it's based in facts. A real conspiracy nutso would attempt to put the US, or Dubya into the picture.

 

[Weird Harold]

Despite the attractiveness of the euro to forgerers, the dollar remains the currency most likely to be faked. This is due to the ease of counterfeiting the dollars, compared with the state of the art euro notes - even with the new US notes.

A good point, however, counterfeiting of US currency is a known, historical, problem. Counterfieting of the Euro is a new market and the "state-of-the-art" may be providing a false sense of security.

Lost Cause's point about undermining confidence in the euro or de-stabilizing the Euro is also a consideration. People (generally) counterfeit the US Dollar to make money. Counterfiet Euros might be motivated by people opposed to joining the Euro as a way to "prove" why it is a bad idea.