Chinese Police Seize 100+M Counterfeit CNY in Guangdong Province
Chinese police seized over 100M yuans in Dzeyan, Guangdong Province. The notes are high-quality fakes. For the 1st time, fakes were sold by counterfeiters online and now are mainly found at markets in the provinces of Guangdong, Chongqing, Jiangsu and Changchun.
"The fake money has an uneven surface printed by a paper press machine. It can even print security features correspondent to genuine ones," said Luo Ziyao, an investigator at the Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of Guangdong Provincial Public Security.
How to distinguish a counterfeit? Here are some marks advised to know by the Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of Guangdong Provincial Public Security.
- (1) Most serial numbers starting with NH37, M3W96.
- (2) If watching the color-printed numeral "100" in the lower left note corner at a different angle, it should change to blue/green. The "100" on the fakes never changes colors.
- (3,4) If touching Mao Zedong's printed image, the national emblem and other images, the texture should feel a bit rough.
- (5) The security line through the note middle must be continuous. It's disconnected on the fakes.
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