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The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe.

Saw that on the news... Was rather funny.

What a damn genius.

I just saw that a few minutes ago on another website, I laughed my ass off!!

Why didn't I think of that.


Even better, 1 trillion dollar bills

"OK sir, your total comes to 37 dollars and 58 cents."


"Ummmm... right.  You got change for a Billion? "

He should have tried a smaller amount... like a $2 bill.

No, he would have been suspected of counterfitting anyway.

Quoted: He should have tried a smaller amount... like a $2 bill. No, he would have been suspected of counterfitting anyway.

But whats funny, is some people will be live the billion dolalr bill over the $2 bill...

How can you be tried for counterfiting something that has never existed in the first place?

Quoted: How can you be tried for counterfiting something that has never existed in the first place?

You cant. Although imagine going to a strip club and tipping a stripper with that. Just imagine how many lapdances you will get.

With all this new currency the Treasury is pumping out nowadays...large face, offset face, colorized, etc....its no wonder that counterfeiters are having a field day with the "unwashed masses".

Hell, I had a cashier give me a dirty look when I handed her one of those new "full face" nickels.

Quoted: Quoted: He should have tried a smaller amount... like a $2 bill. No, he would have been suspected of counterfitting anyway. But whats funny, is some people will be live the billion dolalr bill over the $2 bill...

$2..for those counterfitters that don't want their work compared to the real thing.

Quoted: Quoted: How can you be tried for counterfiting something that has never existed in the first place? You cant. Although imagine going to a strip club and tipping a stripper with that. Just imagine how many lapdances you will get.

I better be getting a lot more than a lap dance from a lot more than one stripper for a billion dollar tip.