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''We're stackin' 'em against the wall
''Those gangster presidents"''
|'''[[The B-52's]]'''
Instead of robbing or stealing directly, some criminals prefer to make fake bills - that way, not only do they not have to pay for whatever they're "buying", they get real money back as change. It can be anywhere from one dude operating a low-grade printer out of his garage to a gang using a top-end press making super-bills. Sometimes, this extends to creating fake coins as well.
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* This was the mystery of {{spoiler|The Black Island}} in the eponymous [[Tintin]] adventure.
* In one ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' story we meet the master counterfeiter Fenimore Buttercup, who would have been successful, had he not printed ''3-dollar bills'' and ''signed them with his name''! (''"I am an artist! Shouldn't an artist sign his masterpieces?"'')
== [[Film]] ==▼
* [[Buster Keaton]]'s character in ''[[The Haunted House]]'' runs afoul of counterfeiters.▼
* In ''[[Lethal Weapon 4]]'', fake bills were being cranked out in order to bribe the brother of a crime boss out of prison.▼
* ''[[Rush Hour]] 2'' featured fake bills you can only tell are fake by burning and looking at the color of the fire.▼
* The Fratellis in ''[[The Goonies]]''.▼
* This was the line of business for Mark Gor and Sung Tse Ho in [[John Woo]]'s ''A Better Tomorrow''▼
* During one sequence in ''[[Big Money Hustlas]]'', the counterfeiter Bootleg Greg tries to pay his tithe to the crimelord Big Baby Sweets with counterfeit bills. Sweets's bodyguard kills him and flips his bills over - they're only printed on one side.▼
* ''[[To Live and Die In L.A.|To Live and Die In LA]]'' (1985) is about a Secret Service agent who becomes obsessed with catching the master counterfeiter who killed his partner, eventually crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]].▼
* The events of the Ridley Scott film ''[[Black Rain]]'' are set in motion by a conspiracy by the Japanese [[Yakuza]] to distribute fake U.S. currency via [[The Mafia]], only a renegade Yakuza steals the counterfeiting plates.▼
* In the opening scenes of ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'', US Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan ([[Clint Eastwood]]) and his partner are busting a counterfeiter group. In [[Real Life]], as a part of the Treasury Department the Secret Service also handles financial fraud issues, as well as the protection service that's the focus of most of the film.▼
* In Christmas in Wonderland, two criminals plan to spread a large backpack full of counterfeit cash all over the West Edmonton Mall on Christmas Eve while the cashiers are least likely to spot it because they are so very busy {{spoiler|however, they drop the bag over the railing, and two kids start spending it almost getting their family in trouble, and ultimately leading to the gang's downfall.}}▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[Sherlock Holmes]], in ''The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb''.
* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', when one printer tells another that the current fad for books of prophecies is "a licence to print money", a footnote adds that the second printer's own thoughts on that subject eventually led to his arrest.
* Owlswick the stamp forger in ''[[
* In the [[Stephanie Plum]] novel ''Four to Score'', counterfeit money proves to be very important to Stephanie finding her current skip (and in the process, accidentally helping Morelli with [[Working the Same Case|his current case]]).
* In one of ''[[The Demon Princes]]'' books, Kirth Gerson finds out how currency is verified, and uses this knowledge to scam 10,000,000,000 SVU out of a kidnapping organization.
* The final volume of the ''[[Baroque Cycle]]'' deals with the cat-and-mouse game between Master of the Mint Sir [[Isaac Newton]] and jack Shaftoe, who has taken up making counterfeit gold Guineas.
* Counterfeiters are a stock enemy in [[Enid Blyton]]'s more [[Action Adventure]]-oriented works, such as ''The Island of Adventure''.
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* [[Buster Keaton]]'s character in ''[[The Haunted House]]'' runs afoul of counterfeiters.
▲* In ''[[Lethal Weapon 4]]'', fake bills were being cranked out in order to bribe the brother of a crime boss out of prison.
▲* ''[[Rush Hour]] 2'' featured fake bills you can only tell are fake by burning and looking at the color of the fire.
▲* The Fratellis in ''[[The Goonies]]''.
▲* This was the line of business for Mark Gor and Sung Tse Ho in [[John Woo]]'s ''A Better Tomorrow''
▲* During one sequence in ''[[Big Money Hustlas]]'', the counterfeiter Bootleg Greg tries to pay his tithe to the crimelord Big Baby Sweets with counterfeit bills. Sweets's bodyguard kills him and flips his bills over - they're only printed on one side.
▲* ''[[To Live and Die In L.A.|To Live and Die In LA]]'' (1985) is about a Secret Service agent who becomes obsessed with catching the master counterfeiter who killed his partner, eventually crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
▲* The events of the Ridley Scott film ''[[Black Rain]]'' are set in motion by a conspiracy by the Japanese [[Yakuza]] to distribute fake U.S. currency via [[The Mafia]], only a renegade Yakuza steals the counterfeiting plates.
▲* In the opening scenes of ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'', US Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan ([[Clint Eastwood]]) and his partner are busting a counterfeiter group. In [[Real Life]], as a part of the Treasury Department the Secret Service also handles financial fraud issues, as well as the protection service that's the focus of most of the film.
▲* In Christmas in Wonderland, two criminals plan to spread a large backpack full of counterfeit cash all over the West Edmonton Mall on Christmas Eve while the cashiers are least likely to spot it because they are so very busy {{spoiler|however, they drop the bag over the railing, and two kids start spending it almost getting their family in trouble, and ultimately leading to the gang's downfall.}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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