Top 10 Most Notorious Counterfeiting Operations of the Last 100 Years
The U.S. Secret Service is charged with finding people who make fake money and try to pass it as real. Although most people believe the Secret Service were always the agency who protected the president, that isn�t the case. President Lincoln signed the document creating the Secret Service to arrest counterfeiters as well. Today, that remains the agency�s main purpose, but the duties have expanded to include protecting the president, dignitaries and heads of state from other countries, credit card fraud, financial fraud and schemes, and more. The need to fight the counterfeiters continues as strong as it was in Lincoln�s day. In fact, the number of counterfeiters are rising. Making money is an essential part of the world in which we live, but some canny customers have decided to bypass the backbreaking toil and take the phrase �making money� literally. It seems that as soon as a civilization invents a currency someone will figure out how to fake it. Unsurprisingly, governments tend to l...