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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 4, January 26, 2014, Article 25

WOMAN BUSTED FOR PASSING 'MOE MONEY'

There are dozens of reports of counterfeit currency each day, and I ignore most of them. But every once in a while one has to make you grin. I'll spare you the tale of the counterfeiter who threw French fries at the arresting cop, but here's the story of one woman's attempt to make some "Moe Money". -Editor

Moe Money While for most consumers an attempt to pay with fake money probably amounts to joking “Ha ha, you don’t accept old Blockbuster cards as payment, do you? (wink!)” there are others out there who’ll go to great lengths to pull a fast one on retailers with counterfeit bills. That being said, having Moe Money’s signature on your $100 bills isn’t going to convince anyone that thing is anything but a fakety fake fake.

The 19-year-old suspect was charged with uttering a forged instrument*, forgery of instrument and obtaining property by false pretense, reports MyFox8.com, and one count of inducing giggles by using the name Moe Money in the first place. Police accuse her of trying to buy a gift card at a local Walgreens with a counterfeit $100, which led to her arrest. Cops later found $12,882 in fake money after her arrest, but it’s unclear if she’d ever successfully spent any more of the Moe Money money before.

Side note: Even if Moe Money was believable as a real guy, giving him the job title under his signature of “Proprietor of the Commonwealth” instead of say, Secretary of the Treasury or something is a giant tipoff too.

To read the complete article, see: Woman Busted For Fake $100 Bills Because “Moe Money” Isn’t In Charge Of Signing Currency (consumerist.com/2014/01/23/woman-busted-for-fake-100-bills-because-moe-money-isnt-in-charge-of-signing-currency/)

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