This Man Made $250M in Counterfeit Money and Got Away with It*

nobody on this earth has ever counterfeited more money than I did and better than I did it's what it is it comes out like I'm the self-proclaimed but it's not what I am I don't say it the people say it and it's true I looked it up it's true my name is uh Frank Willis ah I'm from a little town called Twilight's and Quebec Canada what I did basically are free money you know I just started with you know stolen clothes and then it evolved into car parks and then into stolen cars as a whole we're all scrambling to make money and find the next idea or whatever why just let's skip all of that and just make my old money directly this is when I launched them to the Caliphate I mean we did go to the moon so you know I figured you know I can make this work yeah to get from not knowing to how it's actually done you can go on many sites and most of that means this is funny but most of them are government sites you get from one sheet of paper to you know ten different criteria that you had to look into so you're moving forward from the government websites it's how it starts really single most complicated things is the crispiness of the bill and then you got the watermark is just a matter of putting this up to the light and then you can see the UV strip here then you get the color shifting xx and the color shifting eagle the fonts on the serial number are provision fonts and the the feel of the raised ink and then you got the starch which you have to neutralize it's actually very very difficult to duplicate so yeah you have to make it good if you wanted to if you want to pass I'd say 75% of the security of the currency is the paper it's up it took me a whole year just to figure that out the ingredients and the suppliers and the you know how and the different security features included within the paper so while I looked at you know hundreds of suppliers something plain just hung up on me and some told me flat out day you're making you know paper for banknotes with that and now we wrote it down to the one that felt right to me G with the smell or feeling so I picked one and it went well another really important part that that I had to really make sure that was fully secure this one I received a paper the order can be can be bugged and police can be on it so we sweep everything everything came out good and clean once the paper was inside my printing shop then I knew I had it they were actual currency they were banknotes that was printing from that on that was really really cool I successfully been able to sell money for for about a year there's how long it took before the sadly enough we sold he to an undercover agent and the whole thing came crashing down that was the end of it my god arrested and I gave them two hundred million and fake currency that I had left plus a printing press that they wanted so I gave that away in exchange for they would remove any accusation against me for counterfeiting and I was fined $1,500 I printed two hundred and fifty million before I even sold one I gave back two hundred million so you do the math [Music] [Music]

Channel: GQ

Views: 5,824,311

Keywords: frank bourassa, government, counterfeit money, fake money, counterfeit, politics, news, journalism, gq features, features, 250 million dollars, counterfeiter, counterfeiting money, best counterfeit bills, canadian money, counterfeiting, fake cash, fake bills, how to counterfeit, how money is made, money scam, printing fake money, counterfeit bills, money, best fake money, counterfiet, deep web money, counterfeit currency, bank notes, fakes, gq, gq magazine

Id: ZX8dcmXj0Uo

Length: 4min 20sec (260 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 28 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/ec_on_wc]

Well... you know, he's the most prolific counterfeiter who has been caught. You never know who's still out there.

[u/[deleted]]

The cops put up $1,000,000 as evidence.

[u/jacob_w]

Is there something about the name Frank that draws people to counterfeiting?

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm just gonna make my own fuckin money, Julian, it's genius."

[u/Ughable]

I wonder if he at all feels remorseful for the cars he stole in the past. Like does anyone who remembers their car stealing days fondly and chuckle ever think about the people they might have driven into poverty because they lost their only mode of transportation? There are so many points in my life where I'd be immediately jobless and quickly homeless if my car had been stolen.

But he got to keep 50 million dollars, 'haha, you do the math.' I want to punch him.

[u/AllofaSuddenStory]

At least he didn't counterfeit karma. THAT would be unacceptable.

[u/seanalltogether]

I wonder who he sold the counterfeit money to and what his rate was. Obviously these people knew it was counterfeit, so do you pay like 10 cents on the dollar for them or what?

[u/DarcyHart]

I'm confused why they just let him go.

[u/[deleted]]

but some poor kid gets caught with half an ounce of weed in two separate bags and his fucking life is ruined. our legal system is a fucking joke.