Frank Bourassa, who figured out what to do, just did it, returned home and began to study how to print money.

Just print some money.

As a Canadian, Frank Bourassa felt that he could not touch Canadian dollars because he was in Canada. Touching Canadian dollars would easily attract the attention of the police. The risk was too high. Frank Bourassa, who had already been in jail once, did not want to go to jail again.

Already.

So he set his sights on the U.S. dollar, the currency with the largest circulation and widest circulation in the world, and also the banknote with the most counterfeits.

In Frank Bourassa's mind, as long as he makes a small fuss, he will not attract the attention of the American police, and there are a lot of counterfeit U.S. dollar bills on the market, so the risk of making U.S. dollars is minimal.

It’s just that the U.S. dollar has denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100.

With Frank Bourassa's ability, it is impossible to do all denominations, he can only choose one denomination for death attack.

Which denomination of dollars to make.

Frank Bourassa thought about it carefully. The two relatively large amounts of U.S. dollars, 50 and 100, could not be touched. For one thing, large U.S. dollars were not highly circulated and could easily be traced by the police.

Secondly, people are more careful when handling large amounts of U.S. dollars and often use banknote detectors.

They were willing to provide Frank Bourassa with acid-free paper, but they asked Frank Bourassa what he wanted the special material for.

When buying something in the store, when the cashier took the banknote from Frank Bourassa, he didn't even care and put the money directly into the cashier.

Just how to make it?

certainly!

This is a bit troublesome.

Once the template is done, the next step is to prepare materials and equipment.

So Frank Bourassa hit the road with a sack of counterfeit money.

Not to mention that there are so many banknotes in the world, many of which are technically supported by the United States. In this case, the formula for special paper for US banknotes is not a secret, and many paper mills know it and can produce it.

Although it cannot pass the banknote detector and cannot enter the bank, it is unimpeded among ordinary people and is no different from real banknotes.

However, life cannot be assumed.

Of course, it is impossible to replicate exactly the same banknotes just by relying on these defense technologies. It is a no-brainer.

So he contacted the New York gang through connections and asked them if they had any demand for counterfeit money.

There are not many counterfeit 20-yuan bills on the market now, and tens of millions at most will have little impact.

The other party was willing to provide services and signed a supply contract with Frank Bourassa, allowing Frank Bourassa to easily obtain a large amount of paper for printing US banknotes.

Although compared with the special printing machine for US dollar bills, this old gravure printing machine is very different.

Once the money comes out, how to spend it becomes a problem.

Of course, seeing it with the naked eye is not enough. Cracking the anti-counterfeiting marks on U.S. banknotes requires a wealth of professional knowledge. To this end, Frank Bourassa devoted all his efforts and energy and began a struggle that would not give up until the goal was achieved.

It's just that no one touches it. The United States is the most powerful country in the world and no one wants to cause this trouble. The scope of use of this kind of paper is really too narrow.

In order to obtain acid-free paper, Frank Bourassa, like the painter and others in the movie Warriors, called paper manufacturers to ask if they could produce this kind of paper for him.

Unless it's the person who shoots the currency detector.

So the FBI began investigating Frank Bourassa.

But when I took it to the banknote detector, I found that it was really a counterfeit banknote and could not pass the banknote detector.

After that, Frank Bourassa began to learn the technology of repairing printing presses. With the superb skills he learned in the garage and hard work, the machine was able to operate normally after a few months.

Because of the large circulation, if people find a fake $20 in their hands during use, they usually look for opportunities to spend it or throw it away thinking they are unlucky. The possibility of calling the police is very small.

After hard work, Frank Bourassa gradually solved the problems of ink, printing plate, etc., and finally got stuck on the banknote printing paper.

Printing money is only the first step, the key is to spend it.

So for the counterfeit banknote with a face value of 20 yuan, it is faced with ordinary people. As long as it can deceive the naked eyes and feel of ordinary people, he has succeeded.

Almost all manufacturers hung up the phone as soon as they heard about this kind of paper. No one wanted to get into trouble, even if they could make money.

First up is the printing press!

There is a difference between the acid-free paper provided by this European company and the special paper for US dollar bills.

Although they themselves cannot distinguish whether the printed money is real or fake, they still have to try it for safety.

For ordinary people, this knowledge is used to identify counterfeit banknotes, but Frank Bourassa regarded this as technical guidance for making counterfeit banknotes.

The business of printing money is very deep, and it is not as simple as it seems.

In order to crack the US dollar banknotes, Frank Bourassa searched for knowledge about the US dollar banknotes on the Internet, and found that the US government had published a large amount of US dollar anti-counterfeiting knowledge and anti-counterfeiting marks on the website in order to increase people's awareness of anti-counterfeiting.

The banknote printing press is different, using a very rare gravure printing press.

He said that he could hand over the counterfeit banknotes to prevent disruption to the financial market, and just commute his sentence and not extradite the country.

If Frank Bourassa had worked hard when he was in school, he would have been able to get into a good university even if he couldn't graduate with a doctorate.

When Frank Bourassa came to the door, the gangsters expressed interest, but they had to see the goods first and confirm the quality before deciding whether to buy it or not.

The gangsters ate all the counterfeit banknotes brought by Frank Bourassa and sold them at 30% of the face value, and said they could conduct a second transaction.

There are very few printing plants that print special paper for U.S. dollars. There is only one factory in the entire United States that can do it, and they have only one customer: the Federal Reserve.

But who knows how many counterfeit banknotes manufacturers have in their hands.

Because the banknotes could not be distinguished with the naked eye or by touch, they thought Frank Bourassa was fooling them with the real banknotes.

However, what worried Frank Bourassa happened.

If it's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, Frank Bourassa and his friends can still spend a little money.

The test was successful.

After wandering around the border town, hundreds of counterfeit bills were spent without any suspicion.

Frank Bourassa also knew this. He knew that it would be impossible for him to create banknotes that could hide from the banknote detector, but he was not worried about this because he was not facing the banknote detector in the bank.

certainly!

This kind of printing technology is not advanced and the printing cost is also very high. It is only used in a few areas. However, because it is related to banknotes, it is strictly controlled by countries around the world and it is difficult to buy it on the market.

Ordinary prints only need to print ink, pigments, etc. on white paper. Considering people's viewing habits and costs, the printing machines are all letterpress.

Frank was well prepared for this and lied that he was a financial company and had a contract with a bank in the United States to issue a batch of corporate bonds and needed this kind of paper to print the bonds.

The paper used to print US dollar bills is very special. It is what we often call acid-free paper. It seems to be made of 75% cotton and 25% linen, but it is also mixed with many other ingredients and has a special formula to make it.

come out.

It's funny to say.

With the help of gangsters, the counterfeit 20-dollar bills printed by Frank Bourassa quickly spread throughout the United States. Because the expansion speed was too fast, it attracted the attention of the FBI.

After the face-to-face contact, Frank Bourassa took out the counterfeit money.

Tens of millions is not terrible, but hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions or hundreds of billions is a very scary number. In severe cases, it may even cause an economic crisis. This counterfeit banknote gang must be destroyed.

Frank Bourassa, who returned to the secret factory, ordered the money printing press to turn all the paper into banknotes, printing approximately $250 million worth of counterfeit 20-dollar bills.

At this time, Frank Bourassa's caution saved him.

In order to thoroughly understand this thin dollar bill, Frank Bourassa, who is extremely capable, is said to have studied for more than a year and finally mastered all the technical details visible to the naked eye.

These U.S. dollars with denominations of 1, 2, 5, and 10 are too small, the cost of printing is too high, and it is very troublesome to sell. After thinking about it, Frank Bourassa chose the U.S. dollar banknote with a denomination of 20 yuan as the target for imitation.

he told the judge.

But as mentioned before, Frank Bourassa's customers are ordinary people. He doesn't want them to be 100% identical, as long as the paper is more than 90% similar.

However, capitalist countries have the money to push the envelope. After Frank Bourassa made countless phone calls, a paper mill in Europe finally expressed interest in this order.

This reason is very reasonable, after Frank Bourassa sent forged contracts and documents to this company.

Although Frank Bourassa was very cautious and asked his friends not to spend counterfeit money in Canada and not leave any loopholes.

Frank Bourassa felt that no matter how capable he was, it would still be difficult to make U.S. dollars that could deceive the banknote detector, so he gave up.

More than 200 million yuan is still a counterfeit 20 yuan note. If you spend it yourself, you will never be able to spend it in your lifetime. You can only sell it to people who specialize in making counterfeit notes.

Frank Bourassa first exchanged a batch of 20-dollar bills from the bank and carefully observed the characteristics of the 20-dollar bills.

There are also a lot of beautiful counterfeit banknotes in the country, and many people are better than Frank Bourassa, but the FBI is very interested in this new counterfeit banknote because it is so realistic.

So Frank Bourassa drove to the border town of Beautiful Country with hundreds of counterfeit coins and spent the money with his own hands.

Frank Bourassa spent a lot of effort to find an old gravure printing machine that was almost scrapped on the second-hand market. Although it could not be used and could only be sold as a commodity, Frank Bourassa found a treasure and quickly sold it.

I bought this machine that was no longer working.

Needless to say, the effect is surprisingly good.

Because the $200 million that Frank Bourassa mentioned was never found, the Canadian judge decided to make a deal with Frank Bourassa. Since he was not committing serious crimes anyway, just give him a chance.

Because he did not commit a crime in Canada, he did not violate Canadian criminal laws. This gave Frank Bourassa the opportunity to plead with the judge.

The feel of this kind of paper is very special and very different from ordinary paper. Even ordinary people can feel whether ordinary counterfeit money is real money or counterfeit money by touching it with their hands.
To be continued...