> The first was in college.

I remember my friend coming home from his first year in college and telling me about how he passed a counterfeit $30 he'd found to a clueless clerk and they actually made the correct change. My wise-ass response was that that wasn't actually counterfeit, it was just fraud.

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chuckadams an hour ago | parent [-]

The fraud of passing off something of lesser value as the genuine article is the definition of counterfeiting.

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Uvix 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

But there is no such thing as a “genuine” $30 bill.

	▲	chuckadams 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If it's being passed off as money, then someone thought it was. I don't think the Secret Service cares if it's an invalid denomination or has Bozo the Clown on the front. Probably not a high priority for them given the overall lack of believability, but the attempt is what counts.