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$500 tip leads police to $66 million in fake bills

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police have arrested a Lebanese man allegedly carrying fake currency with a face value of $66 million after he tipped a hotel staff with a $500 note, an official said Friday.

The largest U.S. note currently in wide circulation is a $100 bill. But police found bundles of $1 million, $100,000 and $500 notes in the man's hotel room in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, said Izany Abdul Ghany, head of the city's commercial crime unit.

Hotel staff alerted police after a housekeeper received a $500 note tip and found out it was fake when she tried to convert it to local currency at a money changer, Izany said.

The man could be charged for possessing counterfeit money and, if found guilty, face up to 10 years in jail, he said.

The largest U.S. note ever printed was a special edition one for $100,000 in 1934. Bills of $500 were last printed in 1945 and are now no longer in wide circulation, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

This is not the first time the man has been in trouble with the law in Malaysia, Izany said.

A Malaysian court charged him last week with cheating over the sale of office supplies in 2005 in a separate case. Cheating, or fraud, carries a maximum penalty of five years.

hahahaha dumbass guy

if he was gonna make fake money, he could've at least done his research
i mean really, 1million dollar bills?

http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/
I wonder how much the $100,000 bill is worth now.

This guy is the dumbest criminal on earth.

theyre prob gonna chop his right hand off

totally owned!!!!!!!!

The 500 Dolla Ballah

Not the brightest guy on earth thats for sure.

Maybe he was just trollin'

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Originally Posted by BLUETIGER (Post 6771011)

that's nothing..

http://members.shaw.ca/bluetiger17/trillion.jpg

that's nothing

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...09_Obverse.jpg

Lol. I can't find an old RS post of a trillion dollars that was hand written on a legal smaller denomination bill.
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lol, he deserves to have has ass handed to him for being stupid. But at the same time, can they really lay charges? I mean he can always say that this "money" is made for some other uses like having a world wide monopoly contest or something

For trying to exchange the $500 tip, the housekeeper is a dumbass as well. :p

US$ is so yesterday..

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Originally Posted by Peturbo (Post 6770822)

http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/
I wonder how much the $100,000 bill is worth now.

wouldn't it be worth $100,000 ???

wow fail x2
1- being stupid and making fake money which doesn't even exist
2- giving a 500$ tip