8 key controls and the new app to do them with the mobile phone

To save, travel, buy a house or a car. With these goals and more, Argentines buy and save money. And if through ignorance or recklessness they come to accept fake tickets, the losses can be immense: currently, in each role with the face of Franklin, more than $ 17,000.

Criminal gangs that print apocryphal dollars get copies very similar to the originals. But even in these cases, they usually have flaws easily detectable with sight and touch for those who are trained.

Therefore, in order to never “eat a fake”, it is essential to know how to check each type of banknote: what to observe, where to touch it and which are typical informants money from the trucho.

To help dollar users around the world in this task, the United States government has released all kinds of Practical advice and fair launch an application for mobile phones which can be great help to analyze the tickets.

The first three steps to determining the authenticity of a dollar bill

Currently, banknotes of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollars are circulating, and of each value it is possible to find various models, images and details of which can be viewed in Spanish on the official website uscurrency.gov.

Those of the current series they have more and better security measure than the previous ones, but all – if they are authentic, and even if they have a “little face” – are equal and are considered legal tender in the USA.

Beyond the fact that each type of note has its own characteristics, the Federal Reserve recommends these first three steps analysis, which apply to the vast majority of dollars:

1) TOUCH. When you run your fingers over a real bill, you should feel slightly rough. If it is visibly smooth and slippery, it is suspect. Also if it is too rough, stiff or thinner or thicker than usual.

2) TILT. When moving a genuine banknote back and forth, certain items must be they change color. This is usually done by inking the numbers which are found at the bottom right. On new $ 100 bills, for example, the colored “100” blanket bECOMES green with tilt; and in the previous ones, it goes from green a Negro.

3) LOOK AT THE BACKLIGHT. Lift the beak and observe it with a white light behind it (solar or from a torch or flashlight). This is to verify that they are water mark and the security thread, and that these are visible from on both sides.

For added security, banknotes can be displayed at the ultraviolet light, What must shine the thread safety with a very striking special color.

Recommend refuse, in addition, any bill that has in one corner the words Replica O For film use only. And pay special attention if they are detected inscriptions foreigners in any language.

Counterfeit 100 dollar bills: the 5 basic checks to detect them

The dollar bills that are most used in Argentina are undoubtedly those of 100, and therefore they are also the ones that more are rigged. How to recognize a trout? It depends a lot on the age.

In the series more real, which has been printed since 2013, there is eight revisions key to do. The three are first of all the aforementioned controls of the water mark, the Hello security and that the number 100 at the bottom right changes color.

But in new dollars you can also Check:

• Relief printing. As you slide your finger up and down the shoulder of Franklin, this part must feel very difficult.
• The bell in the inkwell. Must change color turn green by tilting the beak.
• 3D blue security tape. There must be numbers “100” inside they are moving by tilting the beak and they turn into bells.

• Security fibers. Legitimate banknotes have fibers Red and blue, which can be easily seen in place of the watermark.
• Micro printing. By looking very closely or with a magnifying glass, they should lowercase words. For example, around the watermark space, it should read “USA100” and “ONE HUNDRED USA”.

What about the previous series? In the print between 1996 and 2013, which also has a “big face”, it is especially necessary to look at the water mark, the number below which changes from green to black, print on to relieve in frames and Hello security (which becomes pinkish under UV light).

The biggest difficulty is with the “little face” dollars. before 1990, which have no watermark or security thread: faced with these specimens, you will have to be guided mainly by the relief printing and the fibers of security Red and blue.

The new official app that helps detect fake dollars with your mobile phone

The US Federal Reserve launched a mobile application last July for simplify detection fake dollars.

Call Cash assistance, is currently only available for devices Android (download here), although they promise that “very soon” it can also be downloaded to iPhones.

This initial version does not have a Spanish version either. But its use is enough intuitive and it can be a great help to have it on hand when you are faced with a bill that is causing doubts.

What is your contribution? Using the camera and device sensors, the app instantly informs you of critical security measures this particular post who is in front of you and very graphically teaches how to review them.

The application has two functions basic, which are:

–Denomination detector. The cell phone camera is pointed at the ticket and the app instantly detects how much it is already worth to which series belongs. Then it informs everything that needs to be checked to confirm if it is genuine.

–Tilt simulator. In this section, the app shows how the security measures work for each invoice when it is moved. So at tilt the phone Forward and backward, changes that should occur in the real ticket with the same movements will be visible on a virtual ticket. The latter function in some devices may only be available to a limited extent.

“Please note that Cash Assist does not identify counterfeits for you, ”warn the creators. It’s just a tool designed to make the job much easier.

MG

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