The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 37, September 12, 2004, Article 15

BUT OFFICER, HE SAID THEY WERE *REAL* FAKES...

  Then there's this report from Zhengzhou, China:  "A
  businessman in China's Henan province complained to police
  after fake currency he had purchased for business purposes
  turned out to be waste paper.

  The man, who was from Shandong province, told police he
  had paid 130,000 yuan ($15,000) to buy 560,000 yuan in
  counterfeit currency f rom a man in Zhengzhou, the provincial
  capital.

  He said that only two notes in each bundle was real fake
  currency, the South China Morning Post reported. The rest was
  only waste paper."  Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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