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05-11-2014, 07:40 PM
Woman Pleads Guilty to Printing Thousands in Counterfeit Bills
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Tarshema Brice isn't a magician, but with the help of a Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 printer, she was able to turn a $5 bill into $50 or $100.
Brice, a 34-year-old hairstylist and janitor, was arrested last September and pleaded guilty to counterfeiting in April. In total, Brice admitted to producing between $10,000 to $20,000 in fake bills over two years
See also: Teen Arrested for Selling Deadly Toxin in Online Black Market Sting (http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/blackmarket-reloaded-toxin/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Brice's counterfeiting operation was hardly complex. As Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-07/mom-with-hp-printer-shows-the-digital-ease-of-bogus-cash.html) explains, Brice would take $5 bills with a specific watermark and soak them in a degreaser called "Purple Power." Following that, she would take a toothbrush and scrub off the ink. After drying the bills with a hairdryer, she then would take the blank bills and print scanned images of a $50 or $100 bill Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/woman-counterfeit-printer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Tarshema Brice isn't a magician, but with the help of a Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 printer, she was able to turn a $5 bill into $50 or $100.
Brice, a 34-year-old hairstylist and janitor, was arrested last September and pleaded guilty to counterfeiting in April. In total, Brice admitted to producing between $10,000 to $20,000 in fake bills over two years
See also: Teen Arrested for Selling Deadly Toxin in Online Black Market Sting (http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/blackmarket-reloaded-toxin/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Brice's counterfeiting operation was hardly complex. As Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-07/mom-with-hp-printer-shows-the-digital-ease-of-bogus-cash.html) explains, Brice would take $5 bills with a specific watermark and soak them in a degreaser called "Purple Power." Following that, she would take a toothbrush and scrub off the ink. After drying the bills with a hairdryer, she then would take the blank bills and print scanned images of a $50 or $100 bill Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/woman-counterfeit-printer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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