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Designed for highly lit retail and point of sale locations, and featuring solid steel construction, the Fake-Finder Model UV F -12 is the most powerful compact ultra-violet counterfeit detection equipment made. The unique UV tubes (patent pending) produce twice as much power as normally available Traditionally, after producing an acceptable copy, the counterfeiter would repay his efforts by producing large quantities of the counterfeit note, then face the difficult task of circulating them, normally leaving a trail both forward to his colleagues who received the counterfeits in bulk, and backward to the supplier of the special inks and paper. The difficulty of hiding such large-scale activities regularly led to tips gathered by law enforcement, whose historical success in seizing fake money prior to its circulation has been exemplary. This lower threshold not only allows someone to print counterfeit money secretly at home, but also frees them from the need to rely on others to launder large amounts of counterfeit bills. Thus, even though digitally reproduced counterfeits tend to be slightly lower in quality than offset notes, they are less likely to be seized and more likely to be passed into circulation. According the Counterfeit Division of the Secret Service, there has been a recent proliferation in digital counterfeiting by street gangs and links with the drug trade. The cumulative result has been an explosion in the number of counterfeiting operations, each producing a relatively small quantity of fake money, good enough to be passed at retail outlets. No longer able to rely on the seizure of large blocks of cash, the Secret Service has seen its domestic seizure rate fall steadily, from 70 percent in 1995, to 26 percent today. Accordingly, a growing number of counterfeits are being passed on to the public. At the higher end of the quality spectrum are some of the counterfeits made overseas. Foreign counterfeits - which are still predominantly made using offset printing methods and account for over 80 percent of all offset notes - have represented the majority of the total volume of counterfeit U.S. currency produced in four of the last five years. With two-thirds of the total U.S. currency supply held overseas, the $100 bill is more common abroad than it is in the United States . Perhaps for this reason, the most commonly counterfeited bill outside the United States is the $100 (domestically it is the $20). Some of the best counterfeits come from Colombia , which itself accounts for 80 percent of all foreign counterfeits. To avoid the problem of detection by feel, "Colombian notes" are printed on bleached $1 bills that are then converted into $100s. The quality of these bills is extraordinarily high, and they are virtually undetectable by the average citizen. Smuggled into the United States , the Secret Service estimates that up to one-third of all counterfeit money in circulation domestically is Colombian in origin. Designed for highly lit retail and point of sale locations, and featuring solid steel construction, the Fake-Finder Model UV F-12 is the most powerful compact ultra-violet counterfeit detection equipment made. The unique UV tubes (patent pending) produce twice as much power as normally available. (Counterfeit detection - fraud fighter was posted and is owned by: Annabelle Hall) |
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