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Maybe good enough to fool a vending machine... There is this story of a guy who would ink-jet print the front and back of money on thin newsprint then glue them

Maybe good enough to fool a vending machine... There is this story of a guy who would ink-jet print the front and back of money on thin newsprint then glue them together with a fake security strip in the middle. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-inkjet-counterfeiter http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-inkjet-counterfeiter

raverbashing 9y ago
Well it probably cost more in materials than the face value of it
- 24gttghh 9y ago
  Ahh the sign of a good hobby!
samstave 9y ago
Back in the 80s there was a famous "hack" which was to take a small bill, in my case a $5 bill, and one would use clear packing tape and create a tether on the bill. You would put the bill in a vending machine and once it read it and credited the transaction you could yank the bill out of the machine and make a selection, and you'd pic the cheapest thing in the machine and it would give you the goods and change. The only machine in my town that this worked on was at the local post office on the stamp machine. I had a shit-ton of stamps, and nobody to write to as a twelve year old hooligan. But I was able to buy a lot of ice cream and lame toys with the change stolen from that machine. Sorry post office!
- dghughes 9y ago
  There was a hack to make $5 bills get credited as $100 bills. It was on the JCM WBA-22/23 bill validator model used in slot machines. You needed a small screwdriver a wire and a battery. Stick it between the door bezel and under the BV then short two pins and insert the $5 bill. All while avoiding surveillance of course. The fix was to cover the IC with anti-static black cardboard.
  - samstave 9y ago
    What more interesting to me is that someone figured this out!
- fivestar 9y ago
  May or may not have perpetrated the same crime circa late 80s using $1 bills on soda machines not yet hardened against the attack. It may or may not have taken a lot of dexterity and timing to pull the bill back just at the right time or the soda machine would be left inop with a long strip of clear tape hanging out of the bill slot.
- Fuzzwah 9y ago
  As horny Australian teenagers, my girlfriend and I worked out that putting a 10c and 5c piece face to face together into a $2 condom vending machine allowed us a $1.85 discount. Sorry vending machine owner!

raverbashing 9y ago

Well it probably cost more in materials than the face value of it

24gttghh 9y ago
Ahh the sign of a good hobby!

samstave 9y ago

Back in the 80s there was a famous "hack" which was to take a small bill, in my case a $5 bill, and one would use clear packing tape and create a tether on the bill. You would put the bill in a vending machine and once it read it and credited the transaction you could yank the bill out of the machine and make a selection, and you'd pic the cheapest thing in the machine and it would give you the goods and change. The only machine in my town that this worked on was at the local post office on the stamp machine. I had a shit-ton of stamps, and nobody to write to as a twelve year old hooligan. But I was able to buy a lot of ice cream and lame toys with the change stolen from that machine. Sorry post office!

dghughes 9y ago
There was a hack to make $5 bills get credited as $100 bills. It was on the JCM WBA-22/23 bill validator model used in slot machines. You needed a small screwdriver a wire and a battery. Stick it between the door bezel and under the BV then short two pins and insert the $5 bill. All while avoiding surveillance of course. The fix was to cover the IC with anti-static black cardboard.
- samstave 9y ago
  What more interesting to me is that someone figured this out!
fivestar 9y ago
May or may not have perpetrated the same crime circa late 80s using $1 bills on soda machines not yet hardened against the attack. It may or may not have taken a lot of dexterity and timing to pull the bill back just at the right time or the soda machine would be left inop with a long strip of clear tape hanging out of the bill slot.
Fuzzwah 9y ago
As horny Australian teenagers, my girlfriend and I worked out that putting a 10c and 5c piece face to face together into a $2 condom vending machine allowed us a $1.85 discount. Sorry vending machine owner!