How To Make Fake Money

Making fake money can actually range from making fake money for kids to use to use as play money for their games, as substitute for your monopoly game money, or actually making counterfeit ones from real paper bills. Depending on what you want to do, you need different materials when making fake money. Here are some basic things that you will need.

1. Construction paper. It is advisable that you use white to light-colored paper material that is hard enough so that the ink that you will use will not blot on the underside because you may want to draw on that side like real money. You can use other types of paper as well, so long as it is enough for the amount of fake money you are making. When making counterfeit money, most makers use a special type of paper that you can buy in any office supply. Bill money requires a bit of consistency so it wouldn’t get destroyed in the wash, so for fake cash to pass as real money, counterfeiters make use of this special paper to make the money “feel” real.
2. Marker or pen. For your fake money, you can actually use any type of pen of any color. Children would most probably like them to be colorful, with designs of cartoons or maybe some other design that you and your children or friends would agree on. You can also add cartoon stickers or pictures for your money denominations if you want to. For real money, bills higher than five dollars have special ink that changes color, so anyone who tries to imitate these would not be able to imitate the shimmer of the special ink.
3. Scanner. There you can make enough copies of your fake money by using your scanner and printing them according to the size that you want, no matter how many you would want printed. And with modern programs these days, you can still further modify your design and can actually have them in special shops if you do not have the printer that can handle the type of paper you used. Counterfeiters use the best type of scanner that the current technology would allow to be able to get the full details of the bill they are trying to copy. However, paper bills are custom printed so no matter how much the scanner can get the details, none of the printers in the market can actually print the smallest details found on the note. So to avoid detection, most counterfeiters make it appear that their money is a bit used so it’s old and would escape immediate notice.

Fake dollars are fun to do and easy to make, so long as you don’t try using them to fool anybody by exchanging them for things that are to be bought by real money. Counterfeiting is a serious crime and you could end up being imprisoned for fifteen years or more, with the government taking hold of everything you bought using the fake money. Most shops have counterfeit detectors, so if you think you want to try and have fun and get away with it, you’d better not. It’s better that you make fake money for purposes of having fun, but not to cause damage to the economy.