The FBI claims the international ring has trafficked weapons, drugs, fake cigarettes, and more than $5 million in “Supernotes” to North America. What are Supernotes? Counterfeit $100 bills ...

Supernotes are counterfeit $100 bills, primarily in circulation in Asia and produced so superbly that they thwart even the most advanced detection methods. But the new book "Supernotes" takes that ...

SUPERNOTES REVISITED....As an update to last night's Supernote story, a reader directs me to a piece written by Klaus Bender in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung last year. It turns out this ...

SUPERNOTES REVISITED….As an update to last night’s Supernote story, a reader directs me to a piece written by Klaus Bender in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung last year. It turns out ...

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Previous "supernotes" were dated either 2001 or 2003 but the new forgery is dated 2006. The same methods including raised and dented printing and no-smudge inks that are normally used for real ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Before Kim Jong-un's leadership, the North became renowned for producing counterfeit "supernotes" of the US $100 note. Their composition was painstakingly ...

It's believed that North Korea may have developed a way to create extremely good replicas of American $100 bills. A number of fakes notes have turned up in neighboring South Korea whose quality ...

The notes were dubbed "supernotes" by the US Secret Service because of their remarkable high quality and were created by the North Korean government as a way of generating much-needed foreign ...

But counterfeiting methods are advancing too,” he said. In recent years, “supernotes,” near-perfect replicas of $100 dollar bills allegedly produced by North Korea, have emerged as a major ...