An underground counterfeiting operation appears to continue with $100 'supernote' bills popping up worldwide.

The 'supernote' appears to be made from the same cotton and linen mix that distinguishes U.S. currency from other currency. It even has watermarks visible from the other side of the bill, colored microfibers woven into the substrate of the banknote and an embedded strip, barely visible, that reads USA 100 and glows red under ultraviolet light.

The secret operation, stumping officials worldwide, could be the "most sophisticated counterfeiting operation in the world," former congressman James Kolbe said.

In the late 1990s, North Korean diplomats were caught passing supernotes. In August 2005, the Secret Service found Chinese crime gangs smuggling some of the bills into New Jersey and Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, banks continue seizing the supernotes, with about $50 million worth found so far.
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Call me cynical but it's bullsh*it like this i believe the reason 'they'' wanna hit us with the RFID ID Card, eventually the RFID Microchip...tis a great way to sway public opinion. I'm sure this kinda of hi-tech sophisticated counterfeiting goes on but surely our wonderful governments have/are always been 2 steps ahead? ... hmmm, sorry i don't buy it.

It is not far fetched at all. I live in the netherlands and here they managed to deposit about a million euros in a years time to several acounts and several banks al of wich where fake.There was a international warning about these bills.They simply where not able to detect them as being false.

What your say'n maybe true but my first point still remains,... slowly, surely & systematically create a cashless society

You can't just spring it on the masses straight away, you gotta do it slowly & sleazy like or you'll have protests/riots on ya hands. Like when ya take candy away from bambini


As for Europe, their currency is centralized, surely they would/should have expected something like that to happen sooner all later. You trying to tell me they never planned ahead knowing the almighty Euro was not vulnerable to counterfeiting as it became the main standard of legal tender to so many nations? This is the 21st super-high-tech century...come on.

_{Gold/Silver-->Coins-->Credit/Receipts-->Paper Money/Bonds etc-->Credit/Bank Cards-->RFID Card-->Microchip-->no more ca$h}

Just my take anyways...

oh they want a cashless society...how long would a criminal last without cash?....everyone neatly chipped and scanning their hands....scary stuff.

And the main thing is, you could become a criminal without even knowing it. It, the machine, would be able to silence anyone, with the flick of a switch.

Doesn't most denominations of U.S. currency have a magnetic strip in them to authenicate them?

Criminals wouldn't stop if everyone was "chipped" and society went to cashless society...we'd have higher tech criminals making counterfiet electrons to enlarge their accounts.

we need to lose the whole money thing, it only controls us like oxens in the field.
Imagine....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

I think they're already there !!