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> The first was in college. I remember my friend coming home from his first year in college and telling me about how he passed a counterfeit $30 he'd found to
by technothrasher 5mo ago
> The first was in college.
I remember my friend coming home from his first year in college and telling me about how he passed a counterfeit $30 he'd found to a clueless clerk and they actually made the correct change. My wise-ass response was that that wasn't actually counterfeit, it was just fraud.
- chuckadams 5mo agoThe fraud of passing off something of lesser value as the genuine article is the definition of counterfeiting.
- Uvix 5mo agoBut there is no such thing as a “genuine” $30 bill.
- chuckadams 5mo agoIf it's being passed off as money, then someone thought it was. I don't think the Secret Service cares if it's an invalid denomination or has Bozo the Clown on the front. Probably not a high priority for them given the overall lack of believability, but the attempt is what counts.
- 9935c101ab17a66 5mo agoI don't think that the parent comment is making the case it's not a crime, but rather that it's not specifically counterfeiting. There comment reads as playfully snarky to me, since, when discussing counterfeit currency, we almost always take counterfeit to mean "to make a fraudulent replica of". It's still fraud, and an attempt to deceive.
- iambateman 5mo agoIf you’ll allow yourself to go one step further in the pedantry, there is no such thing as genuine money either.
- margalabargala 5mo agoThere is if we agree that there is. Which we have.
- selimthegrim 5mo agoIsn’t this “uttering”?
- tekla 5mo agohttps://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4489683 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4489683