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- The self-declared "world's greatest counterfeiter," Frank Bourassa, printed $250 million in fake US currency until he was caught by an undercover cop in 2012. And yet he hardly served any jail time. In this episode, Bourassa reveals his process, and the aftermath of his arrest.
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What if the best way to make more money … is to create it yourself? In this new documentary series from filmmaker Nathan Truesdell and Field of Vision, we follow folks who decided to take wealth creation into their own hands, and upended the meaning of “value” in the process. Meet a libertarian Florida coin-maker who dreams of bringing down the Federal Reserve; a Danish painter who supports a family of four by exchanging paintings for goods; and a master counterfeiter, who reveals how he minted hundreds of millions of dollars-and got off scot-free. As this series shows, there’s more than one kind of currency exchange.
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The world's greatest counterfeiter is the one we haven't heard about.
maciek the government
The goverment isn't printing our money.
@@iceflame1167 ... yes?
Nope, He got all charges dropped. He's a superhero of the crime world
There was a guy who counterfeited stamps and it was never known till after he died. his examples fetch more than the originals. He worked for a big company and handled all the outgoing mail, a nice niche.
Feds: frank we’re giving you 60 years
Frank: I’ll give you 200 million dollars cash.
Feds: ok you can go
THIS MRS DOMGOTTI I GOT HIT WITH 25 + COUNTERFEITING LAW BREAKER FOR THE Family I GOT A FEDERAL JUDGE TO MAKE MY PROBLEMS DISAPPEAR LOVE IT
if you do crime better make sure the crime is big enough. it's like integer overflow in code, go over and it flips to negative. they fry murderers they celebrate conquerors.
Yeah that's BS LIES HE GAVE THEM MORE
@@lrg7267 How do you know?
I hope it was all fake money hahah jokes on them
Man, you could even buy your way out of prison with fake money.
When you have something like that and in that amount...bargain is not an issue.
Misheard Metal Canada is a strange and mysterious place.
The guy is not telling you the complete story. He got off because he gave up other counterfeiters. They arrested 12 others shortly after him that were running billions. He was part of a network and gave up the rest of the members, ever wonder how he was able to get that paper? He didn't just call them up there was an organized crime ring.
Sir you’re arrested for murder. Here is the body.
Wait. I’ve 200 bodies if you drop the charges.
Deal.
@@payitforwardpower9910 Seems legit 😆
I like this guy. He's solid. He's straight up, no bullshit. The kinda guy you would want watching your back as your friend but definitely not want the guy you want as your enemy either.
Thats what a fake looks like
I've been fitting counters in shops for years, never had a problem.
well then you must be the world's best counterfitter 😉
@@TommyCubed dude check the spelling, you missed a great joke
Dursun Sahin 😂 for real lol
😂😂😂😂😂...until you freight it. The R is silent 😈
@xxpyroxx75 Paper LOL Duh... thilly me, sorry about that!
Is it weird that I admire this guy? he's clearly resourceful and not dumb.
@Robert A that’s the problem with most crime though, getting caught.
@Robert A You should watch his interview with Jack from Darknet Diaries, it is much better than this one
Gets offered 60 years " how about 200 million?"
Judge: "Deal."
This man had his ass covered big time.
Here in America they do falsifying money too
Frank: "im the worlds best counterfieter"
North Korea: "hold my beer"
Frank, I don't drink beer.
My dude definitely stashes 50 mil somewhere else and is living lavish like Larry since he got off Scott free
He told at the end where some of it might be :)
If he had a stash of 50mil i dont think hell even hint to it. Unless hes stupid of course. Chances are the swiss company told the feds exactly how much was supplied and the feds recovered more or less all of it based on weight.
The guy would be under serious amount of checks and audits as part of his plea. Im sure his means are checked frequently.
@@Professional_CZcams_Commenter the Swiss company and feds figured out there was exactly $50m missing and now for whatever reason our guy has confessed to that.
He must be pretty confident it will never be found.
I'm thinking that surely it was currency that was purchased by his customers? meaning that he would receive 30% of street value. Or $15m before costs.
And there would be a lot of costs with everything from lawyers to production.
It's lucky he was able to even buy himself out of 60years in prison, he would be incredibly lucky if there was a meaningful amount of profit leftover too.
No, he sold it for $15,000.000
dfpguitar “our guy”...... u didnt catch him 😂😂😂
Anyone else think that man at 0:39 was spreading cream cheese on a bagel?
Looked delicious to me
Yeah I did
yes.
We do that here
I don't get it.
"$50 million is unaccounted for..."
Nah, it's not 😂
Dudes looking a little too fresh. Lol
Got to keep it and test to see if it would pass and how many times.
Judging by how meticulous and careful he was yeah that 50M is his retirement money somewhere safely stashed away lol
David Y 💯
World's greatest is still out bud and you'll never know who they are.
It's called the foreign owned and controlled corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank. The Non Federal, No Reserve Bank.
@@JAKEWJONES 🔺️ vs 👑
@@TaylorKing-wu2sr Thanks
michael campos its north korea with the korean super note😂
North Korea makes near flawless USA Super-Notes and its state sponsored criminal production. How Russia has state sponsored Doping in Sports, NK makes the cleanest fakes, near undetectable. Something tells me they do better with Euros and money from other countries. InterPol doesn't care as much as the US Gov't when it comes to Funny $$$
I thought everyone in the comments would be talking about the line at the end about the hollow leg in the church. That's a line from the Sean Connery/Nicholas Cage film The Rock.
Detailing Diaries so did I lol
Detailing Diaries what if he actually did hide it in a st michaels church in Kansas all the while knowing nobody would ever bother to search because it’s straight out of a movie. This guy did buy his way out of a prison sentence with fake money, he’s one step ahead.
I live in Kansas I’mma go check it out
@@philiplira9124 any update?
@@philiplira9124 did u ever find it? Email me @ Juan88montes @ gmail
Imagine how much easier this would've been in the 80's or sooner.
snorgisborg2 ikr I wish I was a boomer
You mean EARLIER????
You can say that about most crimes
Without the internet?
Frrr
SO he made 15 million on the 50 million he sold and he gave 200 million back and got NO JAIL time. How lucky!
that's not luck bro .. he planned the scenario where he gets caught, so infact that's just him being clever
Theres no way that someone that planned the whole operation didn't do something so simple as a anonymous dropoff for a purchase. He was smart enough to know how to get the paper away. He's smart enough to know how to hide some of the money and just give away the operation.
canada.
Canadian Law...it's weak. Go committed murder here...you'll be out in 4-7 years. Pedophiles have more rights that everyday citizens. Drunk driver kills 4 high school football kids...gets 3 years.
Dont forget the Job ...
Guy has the shiftiest eyes I’ve ever seen. 👀
Cant you see his a meth user idiots
Hax0r Bugan I’m sorry I don’t hang out with Meth users often enough to know the signs.
I think there looking for the mafia and there looking for him and that other 50 million
Adam shiff
😂🤣 and still he can print great money with those eyes
. . . he's nothing compared to the federal reserve
Jews
@Forbearance Bear TRUTH
Forbearance Bear Get real. This is the 21st century. Look at the political families, wealthiest families and wealthiest people in the world. Very few are Jewish. The wealthiest families are all Muslims from the Middle East. Few Jews in Asia. China has zero Jews, and the U.S. has a small percentage of Jews among the wealthy and political classes.
Its all digits in the magic money machine. What they print in paper is a fraction of what the keyboard can do.
@oneviwatara Can't blame 'em. They're taught how to work the system starting from a young age.
For a guy that was so paranoid about everything ...!!!!!! He really dropped the ball once it came to actually getting down to the real business of selling the money.
very common with even the smarted criminlas . they take their time planning how to gain but fail in planning how to spend.
That "St. Michael's church in Kansas" story is from the movie The Rock With Nicholas Cage.
Make more programs like this please … I love it 🥰
The worlds greatest is the person who’s never been caught.
way no just made 10k per month and live as good as the average middle rich class the avarice was who take him down
Getting caught, get no jail time, keep 30% of 50M on the low and getting a job as a counterfeit expert is actually better than just not get caught. You just sleep better that way.
@@rolandochavez1839 you dont value money you dont earn. If you can print the 10k, you wont budget and live modestly, youll blow $200 a month in a fancy gym, $4000 a month onna fancy apartment, spend $400 on a sweater/pants etc. Soon youll want to print 20k, 40k a month.
Also the nature of this means you need other people involved in your operation. Although you might be happy with 10k a month. Others wont and youll need to produce higher quantities to keep your team happy.
I think tge weak link was relying on the paper maker to source original media. They are currency paper specialists. They supply to governments and you can bet governments scrutinise them and watch them like a hawk.
Im willing to bet that the swiss authorties or the company itself tipped off the us authorties.
Everyone gets caught sooner or later.
You beat me to it.
what if a guy bought counterfeit off u then gave u counterfeit to pay for more counterfeit money
Big brain
They sometimes add flaws to prevent that and these days they use Bitcoin
Nandadulal Das have you bought it before ?
@@kimilee1558 no I haven't I just know cos I've seen a lot of things about this topic on the internet if u want to buy try the dark web
Monopoly
So this guy makes $250M in USD doesn't get extradited to hell. Mark Emery sends some seeds and gets handed to an American prison. FTW
And people who bought seeds from Mark are still in prison.
My uncle bought seeds from Marc Emery back in '99. We carried them on for years. The man is a hero.
@@HammerLeaf type that into Google instead of here. Prince of Pot, huge marijuana rights advocate.
Does the money take the pen? Or does it show fake
He was, his lawyer was the real hero
Hahah the missing money has never been accounted for. Fair play my man
Guide to counterfeiting. Thanks bud.
this man has money stashed LOL who wouldn't lol no wonder he's trying not to giggle the whole time
hes saying what he has to say
Now this is the Education I need
9:40 Still counterfeiting 😂
If he is I'll buy 300k I need some right now
Was good fashion
@Fashion Family I no a guy that do em same way u could spend em in malls everything berly undetectable
@Fashion Family he a lil price and very discret but u will get your stuff in mail and everything he do it for a living
Alex Garcia who?
Wow he planned even himself getting caught and released. Must be a good chess player.
When he knew he would get caught so he contacted another paper mill and got that paper to keep when things got tricky
His grin at the end...hahah Smart man
A brilliant video. Thanks.
He’s hilarious.
Quantitative easing is the world’s greatest counterfeiting
By law, they are allowed to print it though.
@@thetruth2509 By law that THEY PASSED themselves. They write it, they co-op legislators to pass it with bribe and it does. Usurpment of the highest degree is technically treason of a high degree as well! But they are in such high places, connected to the hilt with powerful circles, that nobody will ever end up serving those responsible actionable charges. Our government is already largely bought and owned by these same types of people.
Jgizzy -redacted- And, we adhere to or give them that power to do so. You can preach your typical big government babble, and it may even contain some valid points, but that doesn’t change the reality of the situation. That’s why you have federal fiat currency in your pocket right now. Do you ever get tired of waking up everyday with these thoughts in your head? You will never be Paul Revere streaming down the cobblestone streets screaming about the big and bad tyrannical government that’s coming. You’re a cog in the wheel and that’s all you’ll ever be.
Interbank lending is the 2nd biggest scam put on the American people. Quantitative Easing, and the Federal Reserve are tied for first.
NOBBERT Lol. You’re acting like I don’t understand that quantitative easing reduces purchasing power. Get over yourself. You aren’t the only individual to understand both macro and microeconomics. No one is worshiping the Fed here, Timothy McVeigh. The point is that you can’t counterfeit something if you are given or have taken the power to determine what is legitimate. By the way, I see that my last comment was suspiciously deleted. Are you playing Big Brother while also demeaning Big Brother? 😂😂😂😂
There is no church or pew ,the idea comes from the movie with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage
THE ROCK!!! LMAO
James Adams plot twist, he actually did hide it in that spot and knows nobody would look there because they think he’s referencing the movie.
I find myself wondering what would have happened if he had told his lawyer, "What would happen if I told you I had 100 million?" I think he would have walked and one day located the missing millions without anyone knowing about it.
He already did that. Rewatch the video. He hid $50m
The greatest counterfeit of all time is The Federal Reserve.
This was a great story great background music as well. 1. Did he sell the rights to his story to hollywood? 2. Why did you not ask him where the missing $50 million was? 3. This tells you everything you need to know about the criminal justice system. 4. He’s tied for greatest with William Dafoe To live and die in LA. Thanks!
This guy just made every gangster in history look stupid.
Best comment EVER!
No he didnt
He a snitch
He looks stupid snitching on his home
Or every bank robber lol
the usd bills are actually pretty shit when it comes to security, one of the best in the world is the CAD bill has so much security and it uses some unknown chemical blend of plastic instead of paper damn near impossible to counterfeit it, idk if id call this guy the greatest counterfeiter
25% disaperf paper
Red-blue 1" cotton fibers
The recipe is the same for 120yrs
The only diff is security marks
No cotton in canadian money this is new not old
you mean the AUD bill? since they made the first polymer bill and currently make CAD bills
@@Hick25 No, its Canadian too, if the AUD has it too, not sure
Michael Frymus Aus where the ones that invented it bud
Proud of my hometown!!! Tokebac icitte!
I don't believe he ever stopped. He changed his game but he didn't stop.
I actually received a counterfeited bill in an exchange place at the Mexico City airport as I was on my way back to the States. It was about $1600 which was put in an envelope, put in my pocket and went on my way. As a collector, I check for "fancy" serial numbers and print errors, so during the flight I checked the bills when I got to the bill in question. It was a 2001 series. It had the stripe, watermark, the bright green numbers and stamp were all there. But just the feel was just slight different. I got home and made an iodine mix, sure enough, it started to turn dark. Cool, I have a very good counterfeit to add to my currency collection. Maybe it was one of yours Frank.
It's not going to have a stripe and water mark but be the wrong paper. Sorry. Your full of it
@@johnboys92 Please, do explain kid.
@@JohnnyXanax the stripe and water mark are exponentially harder to forge than it is to source the correct paper and even the same brand the government sources for their bills........ In other words you are full of shit. Kid
@@JohnnyXanax Did you watch the video? Frank copied the paper so that it would appear yellow, like a normal bill, do to the lower quantity of starch in the paper. Iodine is used in these pens which reacts with starch in most paper, marking the bill brown, but he bought paper with a lower starch content, most likely produced from cotton as that is what U.S. bills are produced from, which would pass the counterfeit pen test. If it turned dark = fake bill. He made them so they did not turn dark. Not his bill, but definitely counterfeit.
His was the right paper so it would pass the pen test- definitely not one of his 😂
What the federal reserve does, they just have bigger printers.
Iam still amazed of your amzing business....
Kudos to you.
Yeh so the 30% cut of the missing $50m is sitting in an offshore somewhere.
Ill split 50 if u pick me up
It takes money to make money--even if it's fake money.
Real fucking TALK! PREACH BROTHAAAAAAAAAAA
Fascinating
Watching from Jamaica peace 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
what a legend
Australian banknotes are leading the way at the moment with polymer using a lot of features that are very hard to copy.
Australia isn’t the only place to use polymer
Canada and the UK use it too
Thank you,
I think the director watched To Live and Die in L.A. one too many times, haha. The music for starters.
So he sold the 50 mil and pocketed 15 mil. Granted there were setup and operation costs, but he must have had a legit 10 mil stashed. Wonder if he got to keep any of it?
that judge got 200mil, and dropped the charges, go figure lol
9:38 : The "I am just fucking with you" look.
The worst best , has not been caught yet . And will never be . That’s how good he is .
I wouldn't be surprised if he had the extra $50 million buried somewhere
It's under the stately oak where Andy Dufresne buried the cash for Red, ready for when ever he needs to skip town and live out his days in Zihuatanejo.
No over-sea Bank will take his money because it might be counterfeit !
I’ve been playing LA NOIRE lately and i can tell he never stopped counterfeiting. Clearly double agent
Love your
work
What did you do about the magnetic ink? Where do u get thay
This guy is super smart and cautious,
Imagine if he used his powers for good...eh wouldn’t be as good at it I bet. He would’ve got away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!!
Arghh ahhh urggh uh argh guuh ahh Scooby-Dooby-Dooby-Dooby-Doo Doo Doo Scooby Doo!
He’s a funny guy, you know how many st. Michaels churches there are in Kansas?
Lol go me over here scrraming in my apartment. THAT IS SO COOL.
I mean everyone has one simple goal. That goal is to survive. Now how eacg person decides to survive is their business. Pretty crafty way to survive, and by golly .. DAMN GENIUS.
If you're that good, they can use your know how. So kids, no matter what you do, be the best you can be!
Good for him! At last, and Artist has an economically viable occupation.
If he had done this in a third world country, he would never have gotten caught
@5:40 What is the purpose of sending in a second truck and stopping the first struck when the traffic becomes congested? I didn't get any of that.
On the way to his hideout he had to take a bridge and at one point the bridge becomes 1 lane wide, so he had a car behind him break down for 20 minutes so in the case that he was followed he would've had enough time to vanish. The 2nd truck in the parking lot was to transfer all the papers box per box in case the original truck or any of the packages were rigged
where can i watch teh full documentary?
There's a bunch of st michaels churches in kansas lol
He donated the money to Vatican lol I hope they don't take me out ha.
It’s the one in mulvane. Be careful out there.
St. Michael's Church in Fort Walton, Kansas. And for you bozos out there its a 1996 reference to the ending of the movie ''The Rock''
@@iTRYMLGaming Lol I live 20 minutes from Mulvane BE RIGHT BACK
Eyesonlife. Your very key on green little balls, good memory.
This is AWESOME @8:32
Gangster as F*CK! A photo of you and a MASSIVE payoff to the police.
There aren't very many people who can say they did what you did! Charges completely dropped, just like the judge's mouth when you said you'd give them $200 million dollars 💸 💵 💲 🤑
He ain't stopped lol,legend if you can get away with it
Dayum he made one hell of a deal
cops stole the 50 mill
i think he has some of it too in the back yard burried
Nah he told em he had 200 million. He kept the 50.
This crazy bastard has the 50 mil
Local Police: "we found $50 million dollars in counterfeit currency which has been passed on to the provincial police for analysis"
Provincial Police: " we analyzed the $30 million dollers, which was passed on to federal police for additional testing"
Federal : " we've tested the $20 million and found them counterfit"
Pretty much
“I’m the worlds greatest counterfeiter” says the guy who had been caught lok
He's boasting of his counterfeiting skills not his criminal mastermind skills.
Peter Lee and I’m saying he’s obviously not the worlds best, cause there is a guy out there doing just this that hasn’t been caught. So a better counterfeiter and a better criminal.
Ends by Yo mom he got 6 weeks and apparently still has hundreds of millions hidden. They didn’t even take all the money. Literally best case scenario
Calvin Dignard again. No. Completely wrong. He has all this money hidden that the FBI is just dying for him to try and spend or touch. So that money might as well not exist.
@@pdenny6326 so counterfeit 5$ and stop there,you wont get caught and youll be the greatest? since you didnt get caught,as you say. this guy is better than the greatest,he literally bought himself out of jail with money he printed..
I'm pretty sure that last part about the front pew, hollow leg in st Michael's church is from the movie "The Rock"
Anyone know the song at 1:58 or what genre that is. Hell I'd even take a song that's similar. I need beats like that in my life
Anyone else watch this and wish they didn't become part of this CZcams Algorithm??
They should have sat on the paper in a storage warehouse for a few years, even in a different state, rather than go straight to printing and distribution. Would have made it harder to locate.
Doubtful, the Secret Service operates on a global scale. Do you have any idea the work it takes to make a good counterfeit.
@@JohnnyXanax A packet of crayons and 6 months of community college art classes?
Eventually you have to start selling it and that’s when you get exposed
@@MrSoggyjocks Exactly right.
It's now very very difficult to forge euro bank notes. Those who try it don't have a idea of code of "paper". Those printing money have secret codes they change almost every week. The quality of "paper", not watermarks is the real test.
Chin up Frank, while it may have been illegal, it is massively impressive.
Most cash is polymer with holograms now. This was old technology money.I don't believe he could copy that CAD$20 in his hands.
RAN CON what do you mean about holograms???
I think you mean holographic
No he was counterfeitimg american paper money in canada.
If it can be made it can be counterfeited by the right people/equipment.
Come on mate .. it’s Man made .. , not alien made !!
That’s a once in a life time story lol...hey listen your honor if I give you 200 million in counterfeit cash would that by chance by me my freedom 😂😂😂😂 he was lucky to be in Canada
What a great man lol my hero!
"you're arrested for 1 million in counterfeit bills" "ah damn at least you didn't find my 20 mill in my production shop" "the what?" "Wayment-"
Ok you got me. What's at the pew?
Steve Anthony exactly what I asked
I think he said hallow leg ???
@@babyramirez6603 hai I need this ??
@@akilzubair2581 wat u need
@@akilzubair2581 how many u want
Hol up. You laid out an epic story with the whole car breaking down on a bridge to give the truck time to get away.. all that build up.. but how tf he get caught? Kinda skimmed over the good part.. Can't tell if he's the worlds greatest bumass without knowing that detail
He said it. The RCMP was on him, they traced back to the paper mill and raided
@@gl4989 Ya but how? Who tipped the RCMP?
@@ComboBreakerHD The paper
Simple, "follow the money" - The Wire
@@ComboBreakerHD one of his new customers was an undercover cop.. he's in the business of selling his money so word gets out and someone who gets caught up on charges rats out and introduced the cop as a buyer make sense now ?
I heard of a lots of Drug dealers and Counterfeiters who get busted when they spend the millions ! that's the hard part you need to show a income when you buy the high end stuff !
Respect
Me:
Hires him to counterfeit my money
Him:
Turns me over to the authorities in exchange for real money
😕😟🙁☹️
business plan
How do I sign up for this Skill Share course? 😂😂
He have a course that identifies counterfeit product
Is Crane paper... the same company as Crane & Co? (as in the paper we buy at Papyrus or Hallmark)
I like the music...❤❤❤❤❤ Miami Vice's music style !!!!!!! 80's chill exciting thriller music
When I was younger my friends dad got arrested for counterfeiting. He would drive from state to state buying stuff from corner stores. He was to trade a million for 400,000$, the guy that set it up ended up getting busted for cocaine and set him up. The police thought that he was just a runner so they said 1 year in jail for the main money maker, after getting everyone in the court room to sign the aggrement he turned him self over as the mastermind. The judge was so pissed. He made is own plates and printing press and got paper that was pretty close to money paper.
You get that from only fools and horses 🤣🤣
So did the cops take the fake money lol for retirement
i'm going to have to stop watching videos like this before the FBI thinks i'm up to something.
lol same, i don even live in the usa
thanks
did he just said where the 50 million is located in his last part
hmm, maybe or maybe not (need to go to Church) it's Christmas 🍬🎄
The only part of this video that makes sense is the dude spreading cream cheese on a bagel at 0:40
Made me hungry
though mans was fixin a bagel in the beginning
Anyone tell me what is the music in the begining ?