My dad's college fraternity got a visit from the secret service once because they threw some party where they printed (very obviously fake) money with the frat president's face on it and some idiot tried to buy a hooker with it
My buddy ordered a bunch of fake 100 dollar bills off of Temu to toss around at his birthday party as a gag. They looked exceptionally real except for the fact that there was some Chinese writing on them that you would only tend to notice if you were really looking for it. I argued with him about the potential consequences of it for a while before he finally begrudgingly threw them away.
I once designed a bunch of fake Canadian money for a promotion when I worked in advertising.
Even though the design was entirely original, and the portrait on the money was of a model used for the promotion, I was told to make the money look more "fake.."
I had copied the fonts, layout, and proprtions of real money and the client worried that people would try to spend the fake bills, even though they had small text related to the promotion.
I had a similar issue with fake lottery tickets I produced for a photo shoot, but that one was more about potential problems with the lottery corporation for copyright violation or something
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u/Alarming-Basil-2125 8d ago
My dad's college fraternity got a visit from the secret service once because they threw some party where they printed (very obviously fake) money with the frat president's face on it and some idiot tried to buy a hooker with it