Counterfeit Dollars Market Value: $61 Million

Posted on May 10, 2008
Filed Under Black Market Index, counterfeit and piracy |

The Counterfeit Dollars market consists of producing and utilizing currency that was not created under the authority of the United States Government.

$61 million counterfeit dollars were passed into circulation.

Source: United States Treasury Department, ” The Use and Counterfeiting of the United States Currency Aboard, Part 3” , Final Report to the Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, September 2006, pg. 47, (accessed: October 27, 2006).

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