Cash Per Diem

by DanL on February 10, 2010

iStock_000003413420XSmallPresented here are the daily contributions of a central banker… these are various stories to do with currency and related issues that range from the interesting to the bizarre…

… note that as stories age the associated links may become either inactive or direct the viewer to unrelated items…

We hope you enjoy your Cash per Diem!

March 10 2010

Canada – bust US note counterfeiting gang

Canada – on the use of cash relative to other payment instruments – some ruminations

Russia – policeman swallows banknotes to avoid being charged with bribery

Thailand – card fraud

UK – risk of online banking fraud

US/Illinois – counterfeiting

US/Kentucky – check counterfeiting

US/Texas – high school counterfeiting

US/Virginia – about identity theft

March 9 2010

Brinks – a thorough business analysis

Canada – more polymer coverage

DataLogic Scanning – authentication tester

Nigeria – counterfeit checks

UK – 1m pound counterfeit cash gang

UK – banknote facts & figures

UK – Adam Smith on new banknote

UK – counterfeiting of the Elgar note forced its replacement

US/Illinois – fake travellers cheques

US/Michigan – check cashing ring

US/Minnesota – identity theft & counterfeiting ring

US/Tennessee – fake checks

March 6-8 2010

Europe – ATM fraud report

Nigeria – alternatives for loading ATMs

Russia – patent for banknote inspection system

Sri Lanka – counterfeits

Sri Lanka – currency processing

Thailand – credit card hacker to be extradited to the US

UK – drug gang had so much money that some of it got smelly & moldy while stored in an underground safe

UK – Elgar 10 pound banknote being withdrawn from circulation

US/California – skimming at the gas pump

US/Iowa – counterfeiting charges

US/Ohio – counterfeits

US/Tennessee – high school students & counterfeiting

US/Washington – massive check fraud

US/Washington DC – Pentagon shooter had idea for a kind of electronic currency

March 5 2010

Australia – ATM skimming

Canada – polymer substrate is coming

Canada – more polymer coverage

Japan – credit card fraud

Nigeria – Soludo, CBN & Securency

South Africa – significant counterfeit note problem

UK – Bank of England note circulation scheme

UK – Bank of England note circulation scheme background material

US – new US$100 design will be released April 21

US – speculations on the redesign of US currency

US – small banks are not immune from check fraud

US/Colorado – turning $5s into $100s

US/Kentucky – 100 indicted in check fraud ring

US/Pennsylvania – counterfeits

US/South Carolina – check fraud ring

March 4 2010

Bosnia – retiring a banknote

Canada – jail-breaking counterfeiter is captured

Cyprus – fake card ring

Do gold bars contain tungsten?

India – the changing face of the currency

Japan – cybercrime trends

Kenya – cash-in-transit revamp

Nigeria – what to do with the non-polymer substrate notes?

Qatar – vending machines, coins & banknotes in conflict

South Africa – flood of counterfeit R200 notes

South Africa – bizarre cash-in-transit attack

UAE – possible fraud against central bank

UK – vibrating banknote detector for the blind

UK – cannibis & counterfeits

US – Orrin Hatch proposes to replace Grant on the $50 with Reagan

US/Florida – card fraud

US/Massachusetts – counterfeits

Wincor Nixdorf & Hypovereinsbank24

March 2-3 2010

Austria – counterfeits

Bobst hologram application

Fiserv webinar on 3/9 on ATM management

Fiserv – promoting cash optimization

GrIDSure – management changes

India – fake money seizure

India – more secure cheques to be introduced

Iran – Ahmadinejad accuses US of massive counterfeiting of its own currency

Japan – possible Yen counterfeiting

JDSU gets recommendation of Jim Cramer

Kenya – cybercrime

North Korea – still counterfeiting US$100s?

Pakistan – counterfeits

US – State Department INCSR Volume 2 – Money Laundering & Financial Crimes

US – when the federal government took over banknote issuance in the US

US/California – buying gift cards with counterfeit money

US/California – skimming

US/Colorado – counterfeits in Aspen

US/Florida – counterfeit check losses

US/Louisiana – counterfeits

US/Minnesota – counterfeits

US/North Carolina – counterfeit money orders

Verayo – unclonable circuits use silicon DNA

WSFS Cash Connect wins banking innovation award

February 27-March 1 2010

Australia – nanotechnology & banknote printing machines

Belgium – a book on the largest diamond heist in history

Cellphones let people point-click-purchase

Ghana – business reaction to new note

India – counterfeits

India – an official currency sign

InXitu – authenticating drugs & products with x-rays

Loomis SafePoint

Malaysia – allegations that Bank Negara received bribes from Securency

MorphisOnline & ATM cash supply/demand forecasting

Myanmar – possible life imprisonment for counterfeiting

Nigeria – counterfeit cheques

Slovenia – counterfeit euros

UK – counterfeit coin making goes to jail

UK – reformed armed robber who became an author of The Art of Armed Robbery is jailed for the armed robbery of ATM loading personnel

US – retailers & counterfeit cards

US/Alabama – counterfeiters captured

US/Connecticut – cash vault theft may involve more than Webster Bank

US/Connecticut – ATM skimming

US/Idaho – counterfeits

US/Kentucky – counterfeits

US/Massachusetts – what is Newton to do with all those Canadian coins?

US/New York – counterfeit stamps

US/Oklahoma – counterfeits at a “gentlemen’s club”

US/Washington DC – counterfeit checks

Vietnam – ghost money

Wincor Nixdorf ProCash 4000

February 26 2010

G&D – the history of banknote printing

Ghana – new banknote

Ghana – counterfeits

Philippines – currency printing

UK – currency gang members jailed

US/Iowa – counterfeits

US/Missouri – visiting the FRB KC money museum

US/Virginia – counterfeits

February 24-25 2010

Applied DNA & putting UK robbers in jail

Austria – counterfeit euros picked up at UK post office ruin man’s vacation

Europe – counterfeit euro coins

India – counterfeits

India – defending against counterfeits

Mobile phone can detect counterfeit money

Oldest coin in the world

UK – money forging operation

UK – fake euros

UK – Swedish 100 kroner banknote not worth 100 pounds

UK – counterfeit pound coins

US/Massachusetts – Bulgarians caught skimming ATMs

US Mint – coin plans

US/Missouri – counterfeit case

US/Nebraska – counterfeits

US/North Carolina – spotting fake bills

US/Washington – counterfeits

Zambia – counterfeiters go to jail

February 23 2010

American Bank Note – duochrome ink

Bahrain – counterfeit case

Bulgaria – fear of counterfeits unjustified

Canada – card & cheque scams

Future of money

Israel – women added to currency design committee

NanoGuardian – authenticating medicines

Poland – Chopin banknote

Scotland – counterfeits

Simons Security Systems – micro colour codes

UK – the cocaine on your banknotes

UK – counterfeit case

US – skimming cases

US/Connecticut – counterfeit checks

US/New York – making $5s into $100s

US/Pennsylvania – counterfeiting Coinstar receipts

Volumatic retail cash device

February 20-22 2010

Azerbaijan – counterfeits

Bulgaria – counterfeit euros

Canada – counterfeits on PEI

Canada – another arrest for counterfeiting on PEI

Estonia – introducing the euro

Germany – Bulgarian ATM skimming gang caught

GSSC & Sun Chemical & authentication products

Kenya – cash validating machine

Philippines – public disdain about the coin shortage

Philippines – Sicpa pushing its authentication technology

Turkey – check your banknotes

US Bank – remote cash handling services

US/Alabama – counterfeiter sentences

US/Connecticut – counterfeit travellers cheques

US/Florida – identity thefts

Yemen – counterfeits

February 19 2010

Applied DNA Sciences & Safe Solution AB

Canada – father urges prison escapee & counterfeiter to turn himself in

Document Security Systems vs ECB – some news coverage

EDAPS, holograms & cigarette pack authentication

Fortress Paper loan for factory revamp

India – international check fraud scheme

Mexico – banknote history

Opsec gets a new investor

Patent round-up for pharmaceutical authentication

Philippines – citizens urged to use their coins

UK - a brief history of payments in the UK – from the BBC

UK – card cloner

UK – former comedian acquitted in counterfeit pound coin case

US – criticizing the new penny design

US/California – $5s turned into $100s

US/Connecticut – counterfeits at casinos

February 18 2010

Bobst Visionfoil

Canada – counterfeits in Nova Scotia

Canada – big debit scam

Canada – cocaine, marijuana & counterfeit cash

Document Security Systems vs the ECB – next chapter

Document Security Systems & Premier Packaging

EDAPS – holograms

India – fake US cheques

Kenya – armed police escorts for G4S cash in transit runs

UK – fake 20 pound note warning

US/New York – counterfeits

US/North Carolina – counterfeit check scheme involving the homeless

US/South Carolina – making legal tender into illegal tender

February 17 2010

Australia – counterfeit euros

Austria – skier trapped on a chairlift for six hours burns cash to stave off hypothermia

Canada – prison escapee implicated in counterfeiting

Czech Republic – money exhibit

G&D – security platform for mobile phones

Greece – banknote museum

India – counterfeit bust

India – counterfeit cheque ring

Japan – world’s largest gold bar

New Zealand – this house has a secret vault to hold cash, shouldn’t everybody?

South Africa – large counterfeit bust

US/Arizona – counterfeits & meth

US/California – travellers cheque fraud ring

US/Michigan – towns get their own currency

US/North Dakota – counterfeits in the neighborhood

US/Wisconsin – counterfeit passed “by accident”

February 13-16 2010

Argentina – trial begins in country’s “robbery of the century”

Australia – counterfeits

Banknotes – study of the world banknote industry

Belgium – book on the diamond heist of the century

Canada – counterfeiter escapes from jail

Chile – Mint director fired over mispelling on coin

Crime Prevention Products Ltd – using UV to authenticate currency & other products

DeLaRue – CEO is paid well

Fortress Paper – IVQ 2009 financial results

India – counterfeits

Kenya – insider thefts at G4S

Packaging market & product authentication study

Pakistan – history of currency design

Philippines – counterfeiter killed in a shootout

South Africa – counterfeits

South Africa – stealing cash from a casino, a perfect crime?

UK – online fraud report from OFT

US/Massachusetts – counterfeits

US/New Mexico – counterfeit task force

US/New York – counterfeits

February 12 2010

Canada – counterfeit warning

Coinstar earnings call transcript

India – counterfeiter convicted 20 years later

Malaysia – problems with discolored banknotes

Malaysia – counterfeits

Malta – counterfeit credit cards

Philippines – seminars on counterfeit detection

Securency & the mass production of organic solar cells

UK – university lab says chip-&-pin can be easily defeated

UK – card associations dismiss allegations of easy chip-&-pin fraud

UK – coiners museum

UK – counterfeits

US – is there a solution in the offing for the penny & nickel?

US – historical costs for producing the penny & nickel

US – new penny design

US/Indiana – counterfeit checks

US/Missouri – counterfeiters

US/Oregon – counterfeits

Wincor Nixdorf cash cassettes

February 11 2010

Burma – smuggling counterfeit notes into India?

China – woman tries to use obsolete Kuomintang era note to make a payment

EDAPS Consortium anticounterfeiting products

Europe – Europol & the fighting of counterfeit euros

Ghana – problems with biometric cards

India – man caught with 1m in counterfeit euros

Iraq – knocking three zeros off the currency

Netherlands – will cash be extinct by 2015?

Rwanda – DeLaRue & identity cards

South Korea – mobile wallets wallowing in regulation

Switzerland – national bank resists putting Roger Federer on a banknote

Taiwan – fake coins

Thailand – credit card fraud

US – USPTO issues patent for technique that uses US dollar notes as certificates of authenticity (weird, really)

US/Colorado – identity thief sentenced to 13 years in jail

US/Connecticut – more on the $12m money vault embezzlement

US/Michigan – MSU anti-counterfeiting course

US/Michigan – counterfeiting pleads guilty

US/Minnesota – credit card fraud

US/Tennessee – hiding ill-gotten gains inside a “hydraulic vault” in a car sounds like a case of overkill

February 9-10 2010

Bangladesh – public official supposedly admits to Indian currency smuggling

Haiti – fake food tickets

India – counterfeits

India – someone other than Gandhi should be on the banknote

JDSU & authenticating of pharmaceuticals

Loomis financial results

Singapore – jail for Indonesian counterfeiters

Sri Lanka – new 1000 rupee note

Tidel – coin recycler/dispenser

US – Free Competition in Currency Act (Ron Paul)

US – suggestions on how the US dollar could be redesigned

US/California – counterfeit case

US/Connecticut – Webster Bank cash vault fraud

US/Michigan – MSU criminal justice department will start nation’s first program on product counterfeiting

US/New York – counterfeits & heroin

February 6-8 2010

Algeria – investigation of counterfeit dinars made in France

Australia – coin casting machine

Europe – cash use

India – prime minister asserts counterfeits are coming across the border from Pakistan

India – RBI defending against counterfeit incursions

Japan – the future of currency recycling?

Malaysia – banknotes barely survive the wash

North Korea – currency reform

Trinidad & Tobago – counterfeits

US/California – a dollar bill’s WWII war story

US/Florida – what to do if your ATM dispenses counterfeits

US/Texas – counterfeits

Zambia – counterfeits

February 4-5 2010

Celent – tales of remote cash capture

India – fake currency racket

India – unique security ink developed by nuclear lab for banknotes

Indonesia – coin issuance delayed

North Korea – did currency flop drive country to crisis

Poland – Chopin banknote

Tellermate & cash management efficiency

UK – fake notes sold to schoolchildren

UK – G4S deploys smartwater

US/Michigan – $15m check fraud

US/Oregon – grandfather, grandson, counterfeiting

Wincor Nixdorf ATM cash cassette patent

February 2-3 2010

Anti-counterfeiting for mobile phones involves G&D, SAP & Nokia

Brazil – new currency is friendly to the blind

Colombia – counterfeits

Fiji – counterfeits

Fortress Paper – financing for new banknote machine

India – zero rupee notes

India – counterfeit cases being tried in federal court system

Ireland – cash machine attacks

Macedonia – counterfeits

North Korea – finance official sacked over redenominating the currency

North Korea – starvation spreads after currency change

Philippines – BSP purchase of note printing equipment is stalled

Spain – counterfeits

UK – cash in transit gang

US – preventing check, ACH & wire transfer fraud

US/California – counterfeiting & car crashes

US/California – large scale check fraud

US/Massachusetts – Webster Bank defrauded in cash handling

US/Tennessee – bungling counterfeiters go to jail

US/Texas – Houston bank distributes counterfeits

January 30 – February 1 2010

Abu Dhabi – black money scam

Canada – C$4s

Coinstar – patent application approved

Colombia – euro counterfeiting operation discovered in Bogota

Europe – the E500 note and the drug trade

G&D delivers 10,000th Numeron system

India – RBI to establish paper mill to help combat counterfeiting

India – accusations that Pakistan’s ISI is promoting Indian counterfeits

Indonesia – counterfeit ring

Japan – counterfeits

Kenya – upgraded ATMs

Kuwait – counterfeits being smuggled in from Syria

Oliver-Wyman report – the future of the world financial system

Oliver-Wyman report – the state of the financial industry 2010

US – 15 things you never knew about a US$1

US – on product counterfeiting

US/Arizona – theft of a cash exhibit from Yuma courthouse

US/California – credit card scammer

US/Massachusetts – ATM theft case

US/Massachusetts – counterfeits

US/Nevada – a burst of ATM fraud

US/Oregon – how not to forge a check

US/Texas – lousy forger

January 28-29 2010

Bulgaria – card fraud

Canada – combatting counterfeit bus passes

Cayman Islands – counterfeits

Cummins-Allison hooks up with DeLaRue

Fortress Paper – a profile

Ghana – counterfeit euros

Nepal – counterfeiting Indian currency

UK – the rising tide of internet crime

US – card fraud

US/Georgia – strange tale of used cars and counterfeiting

Wells Fargo banking history museum

January 27 2010

Azerbaijan – counterfeits

Bangladesh – near perfect forgeries

Canada – counterfeit cheque ring

China – rare collectable banknote sells for 80,000 pounds

Indonesia – counterfeits

Landqart (Fortress Paper) increasing its banknote paper manufacturing capacity

NCR – powering over 2 million service points worldwide

Philippines – fake US currency

UK – some suspected counterfeit 1 pound coins are actually genuine

US/Illinois – large counterfeit check ring busted

US/New Hampshire – counterfeit travellers cheques

Wincor-Nixdorf – new technology means better security & lower cash handling cost

January 26 2010

Belgium & others mint eurodollar test coins

China – counterfeit seizures in the last year

DeLaRue – increase in banknote production volumes

DeLaRue – Financial Times take on the business

India – counterfeit & drug smuggling

Pakistan – new banknotes

Philippines – fake dollars

Saudi Arabia – counting currency

Securency – chemical spill

US/Kansas – counterfeits

US/Kansas – ATM emptied of all its contents with vendor’s PIN

US/Maryland – drugs, counterfeits & firebombings

US/Missouri – counterfeiter sentenced

US/New Jersey – making $5s into $100s in East Rutherford (of all places)

US/Tennessee – counterfeit checks

US/Virginia – identity thief sentences to 200 months in prison

US/Washington – counterfeits in the neighborhood

Wincor-Nixdorf – cash handling developments in Europe

Wincor World 2010

Zimbabwe – inflation is now just 5% (officially anyway)

January 23-25 2010

Abu Dhabi – attempt to defraud the central bank

Canada – Bank of Canada Karsh exhibit

Cybercrime is a growth industry

Haiti – distributing cash post-earthquake

Indonesia – ATM scams

Indonesia – counterfeits

Kenya & Uganda monetary union

Nigeria – about the polymer note

North Korea – turning to barter amidst currency change chaos

Pakistan – new banknote with OVI

Saudi Arabia – currency counting machines

South Africa – cash in transit mastermind is caught

UK – fake 1 pound coins figure prominently in the annals of 2009 frauds

US – counterfeit check scam aimed at law firms

US/Iowa – counterfeit checks

US/Maryland – counterfeits

US/Maryland – firebomb/counterfeit ring

Vanuatu – counterfeit euros

Vietnam – counterfeit bust

Vietnam – US$2s in demand for Tet holiday

Zimbabwe & the quantity theory of money

January 22 2010

India – counterfeits

India – designing a new symbol for the rupee

India – reaching the unbanked

Kenya – new armored cash vehicle introduced to protect vulnerable cash-in-transit

Mexico – how the economy runs

Philippines – counterfeit warning

Poland – new banknote

UK – card fraud ringleader pleads guilty

US – combatting enterprise fraud

US/North Carolina – counterfeits

US/Texas – counterfeits

Zambia – counterfeits & money laundering

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