Two Heads Were Not Better Than One for Arizona Counterfeiter
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Counterfeiting money is a detail-oriented art, but one Arizona man who attempted it wasn’t quite scrupulous enough about his fake bills, according to the Prescott Daily Courier: He attempted to pass a forged $100 bill with a picture-perfect image of Benjamin Franklin — but a watermark of Abraham Lincoln.
And Honest Abe gave him away.
At around 8 p.m. July 18, the man tried to buy $9 of merchandise at Goodwill, where a cashier suspicious of the mismatched watermark called the police. The…
Two Heads Were Not Better Than One for Arizona Counterfeiter originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-07-31T16:50:00Z.
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