This Man Made $250M in Counterfeit Money and Got Away with It*
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2014
- *Well, kind of. Meet Frank Bourassa, a Quebec native who printed a reported $250 million in counterfeit money and was able to sell $50 million of it before getting caught. Here’s how he did it.
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Incorrect. The people that actually made more money aren’t caught yet.
Ya because I found 1 on 5 minute tutorials
Incorrect. No one cares :)
US government ins the biggest counterfeit
@@dudeperfectjunior275 I care
@@dudeperfectjunior275 nobody asked if anyone cares :)
my friend got a worse sentence for having a gram on him what
gram of what
oregano
Shybe 🧢
@@oolso0 😂😂😂
@@Dad-lu1oi oF weed dumbass
The best counterfeiters are still not caught
everyone gets caught just a matter of time..
Plant-Based MD Wrong.
Plant-Based MD nnope
nah. I know a few shitheads who made $20s in high school and weren't caught. They sure aren't the best at counterfeiting
@@Woodshadow well that's not what the original comment said. He didn't say every counterfeiter who hasn't been caught is the best.
He said the best haven't been caught.
He looks like he should be on Pawn Stars
So true😂😂😂
HAHAHAHAHA YESS
Underrated Comment 😂😂😂
Rick: "50 million? I'll give you 500 for it, I'm taking all the risk here."
@@Seven_Leaf 🤣🤣
That's it? A $1500 fine??? I think I just found a new job...
Killatunga 5 yrs prison too
@@gigachad-jh1dh still not that bad
*FBI OPEN UP*
@@Killatunga You're saying that now. One day in prison and you'll change your mind
At the end he explained that he still kept 50 million at the end
he's smarter than he sounds.
I'd say, how he is not locked up right now is beyond me.
Basically, he is the most famous snitch in the world, he must have caught hundreds of forgers by now
his first language is french. he's a Quebecois or french Canadian.
Please, someone, explain, If he printed paper that's 100% identical, that means he printed real money, so why selling it?
good question. Maybe it would look too fishy if he went to the bank with a suitcase of 100 dollar bills, and breaking it into smaller dollars.
He’s obviously working for the government. This is why his punishment was so lenient.
Definitely. They alway's hire these dude's. Jordan Belfort was also hired. And that kid that Catch Me If You Can was about was hired as a Fruad hunter.
I mean typically if your good at hacking, security, counterfeiting, the government usually wants you and your skill set. That saying "It takes a crook to know a crook" pretty much goes hand and hand. Hire a crook to catch a crook.
Dudes like Leo in catch me if you can
he mostly turned on a bunch of people he sold the bills to
Yeah there's clearly something left out of this story.
He paid the fine with his conterfeited money.
😁😁😁
charles wellington i’m calling the cops
Not Blxr sorry sir but we don’t like snitches over here. Do you know what we do to snitches?
@@charleswellington1627 if this is not a troll ur fr gonna behind bars soon 💀
@@thomasthedankengine4893 I know what we do to snitches
He either snitched, got jacked, or plain lying
S Thom he definitely snitched. Probably helped them make the process more secure and harder to duplicate.
Or he helps feds prevent counterfeiting
He def a rat
The thing about this world is, if you are really good at doing bad things, you get away with it one way or the other. You either don’t get caught or they’ll recruit your skills.
Go read a detailed article on it.
There was a technicality involved that presented trouble to his case so he made a deal to get extradition off the table because American prisons are way worse than Canadian prisons.
This video is very brief and skips over a lot of details.
I suppose we're all on a gov't watchlist now for clicking on this video
alta nahh
Yeah im sure of it as if we werent before
watched for fun fact lol
No way I found you here alta, editing community ftw : )
I love being a criminal. it's exciting never know if your going to die or make 100k in a day
The best counterfeiter is the one who isnt caught yet
dffd sbges it’s like being the best robber. U can’t call yourself the best if u have been caught and you’re not robbing anymore.
@@fredricmanuel4787 ay that ain't true. Being caught isn't the measure of how good you are (contributes though). Pablo got caught and there ain't any arguments saying he ain't the best drug dealer of all time
*the Federal Reserve
Are you interested in joining the great Illuminati and become rich,wealth and successful in life
$1,500 fine?
Sure, let me print that right up!
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😂😂
So I get caught with a little pot and put in prison for 3 years and become a felon but he got caught with 200million in counterfeit and got a $1500 fine
even fake money talks
how much is a "little por"
pot**
a little over 100 pounds or what lmaoo
Ur in the wrong business then!
Canadian: Makes $200 Mill in counterfeit money
Other Canadians: Its okay ay, you'll just be fined $1500 ay.
Rage-Gamer eh*
1500 in counterfeit lmao
It was in the US dog
shut up eh
Canadian $200 mill is like $200 million in Game credits in game stop for US people.
Plot twist: FBI actually took that counterfeit money for themselves.
This guy is so self-centered and unscrupulous that he should be head of the FBI!
How did you know
That's right
🤣😂 if only that was true
How is it possible to be fined only 1500 dollars for such a crime?!!! It goes to show how ridiculous the law can be.
Fines and crimes are fictional.
its because it wasnt in circulation
they should make this into a damn movie.
He`s a Quebecois (french canadian)...
Joezter There is a movie it's called Catch me if you can with Leondaro Dicaprio
That would be amazing!
I don’t think catch me if you can is this French Canadian counterfeiter that’s about credit card fraud mate
They did. Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Watkins and Tom Hanks stared in it.
For those of you saying "no way he got to kept 50 million":
-He went to court after being caught with 1 million worth of fake 20's
-At court he basically said "what if i can give you 200 million more to take out of circulation" for a deal
-They cut his sentence, gave him the deal, and signed a plea agreement in which they would collect the last of the 200 at an undisclosed location on a certain date like a month later
-After collecting the money, they had searched his home computers and found out he had ordered enough of the cotton/linen paper to print 250 million worth, but the plea agreement was already signed.
-That last 50 mill of fake notes he was selling at 30% face value, so roughly 15mill profit he walked away with.
Wow only 15 million dollars. The government really fucked him...
+Dachief Are you serious?
Dachief No you aren't. I can see through your petty little lies.
Dachief I'm not,I'm just bored.
He was the one being sarcastic there but hey, he didnt have 3 dots at the end of the sentence
Are we not gonna appreciate those animations 🙌🙌🙌🔥
I’m yet to see a comment on how he still managed to walk away with 50,000,000
He probably spent $50 million himself before being caught.
N.C. Lmao it would of got taken away like the 200 million he hid it somewhere or some kind of bank transfer not in his name
@@John-tp6fs yea and also he bought a facility and expensive equipment+ paper
@@John-tp6fs nah mate... they don't buy it for the same price, they buy it much cheaper...
If you watched Contraband starring Mark Wahlberg you'd know how this goes
Next video:
This man murdered 50 people and got away with it*
He gave the FBI the murder weapon and told them where bodies were buried. But, dont worry, he had to pay $1500 so justice was served..
*Well kinda. He accidentally let the secret slip during a meet up with the feds
Logan Andrews look up popeye escobar
Actually there is one Issei Sagawa, who have killed and cannibalized a young Dutch woman and walked free, and on top of that wrote several books on his evil-doing, became a celebrity through it in Japan, who still is not monitored and openly expresses that he still crave eating women... 🙄
“Necrophiliacs came up to the classroom I was in, I gave them 20 bodies and I kept ten...
Hehehe... you do the math”
Imagine if a small channel made a video about this. CZcams would remove it SO fast.
It wouldn't be up before it's taken down 😂😂
I doubt it
Ben Cooper no
@@dethro4315 Wrong,it definitely would be
No they wouldn't??? Why would they?
The most famous person who made money off of a counterfeit scheme, was a man in the 1800s who had 5 cent pieces with a large 5 on them. He plated them with gold and the $5.00 gold piece looked nearly the same as a nickel, just that the color was different. He then went to the cigar store every day to get his favorite 5 cent cigar, slid the nickel across the counter and the clerk would give him $4.95 change, thinking that it was a $5.00 gold piece. He was eventually caught, and prosecuted for theft, but they found that he never said here's $5.00, he just slid the coin across the counter. He was found innocent.
dang
@Axel Smithnick gurr
I thought It was illegal and is illegal to alter, deface or mangle currency.
@@spxxk8671 nah, his name is actually hugh jass
Lie
0:26 my name is uhhhh (choosing today’s identity)
0:25
I'm dead😭
Good one bro 😂😂
I'm weak😂😂
@@goldsun2524 Do some exercises then.
“They wanted my printer” this man was so smart they wanted his printer to make real bank notes lol
GulfstreamG650X thats not exactly what was said but okay
Or you know, it's a joke
Probably took the printer so he cant print anymore bank notes
Yeah i mean basically what i see here is they realized it was so good. They said we are just gonna take this money and put it into circulation and use the printer to make more and we dont want this guy making a fuss so we are gonna let him off the hook
Foreign governments forge American dollars too. I doubt Canada does but some do.
Im assuming you paid the $1,500 in counterfeits ??
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Payment plan $150 counterfeit for 10 months
😂😂😂😂
Understand comment 😂
We need a Netflix Series on this
I think there's a movie....Catch me if you can
I was thinking movie based on real-life events. Audiences love that kind of stuff.
There is one, its called 'dirty money' about how the fed counterfeit trillions and launder it daily through central banks!!
@@assassinatingindividual6032: This is fiction for CZcams sheep eyeballs.
Canada: Print $50,000,000.000 and get a $1,500.00 fine.
America: Swipe a candy bar and it costs $2,000.00 in court.
@Benzo cant when youre already a felon for staining a candy bar
Shows how much you know when the joke went right over your head, the comment was comparing the consequences of America to Canada.
Benzo wasn’t the point but yea aight
@Benzo Nah, your moms house is way too nice.
Need some investment in portugal
That's a slap on the wrist punishment
If he is free somebody is not.
to be fair he is in canada, i'm pretty sure if he lived in the united states he'd be locked up for years
I bet he forgot to say that he had to snitch everyone he worked with, he had to give all his clients so thousands of people got caught.
@@OCCapitalPartners exactly!!!
Big snitch
When I was a kid, my father told me to go out and make money.
So I got a job delivering newspapers.
I must have misunderstood what dad meant.
That would be a great opening to a crime movie.
Absolutely great plot movie
Fun fact: He paid the fine with counterfeit money.
And the lawyers... Apparently he bribed the judge with the counterfeit for leniency. He already had solid plan to pay for the prison guards and warden with the counterfeit. As well as an escape plan with the counterfeit
He deadass probably paid that $1500 fine in fake money
What a legend
So basically this guy got to spend 50 million counterfeit money before being arrested and only got fine $1500 because of his crime and serve no jail time. Like really!? Seems like this dude got off REALLY easy!
No he sold 50M in counterfeit money. Which means he made 5ish million in untaxed money.
Basically they let him keep that 5 in exchange for his printing equipment and the names of the criminal organizations he sold too lol
@@jonathandents4955 so he ratted them out & got a reduced sentence? Yikes.
@@petet6851 It's called a plea deal and millions of criminals do it. It's your best option.
Probably because he was detained, and ratted out the criminal organization and I guess he help caught the organizations so they let him off pretty easy.
@King Xerxes he probably paid that fine with counterfeit money.
He gave 200mill , best believe he has more than 200mill stashed!!😂😂😂😂😂😂 good god this dude played the system
he sounds like the interview news kid who's never been on live televison before.
Well he actually has 49,998,500.
nick levine I hope he used some of the money to buy gold and hid it well.
+FortNikitaBullion I see what you did there...
+nick levine
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he actually has a lot less than that because 50million$ in counterfeit money isn't worth 50 million
if the quality is as good as he says, he probably sold it for 50 cents on the dollar.
I found a new career path.
aren't you contradicting yourself by saying in your other comment "So much easier and safer to make fake cards."
alkaPWN112 Roasted
Bilbo_Gamers LOL
The FBI was here
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I love the way he grins and dos on the end.he out smarted them.lmao
He had to think of his name.🤣
"We did go to the moon"
*-Is Canadian*
_N I 🅱 🅱 🅰 W H 🅰 T_
He meant white people.
Zappy Doggo Human beings are all one species I thought..
Unforgiven Soul Mexican isn’t a race and many Mexicans are white... white people colonized México if you remember.
AFRICANOID Mexicans are brown
Zappy Doggo ... We as a people, you donkey 🐴
and the difference between this guy and the fed is what?
+tnwr111 fed uses better quality material and their printed paper is accepted by banks all over the world.
+Hasan Erdim Ateslier and they have something of equal value in the federal bank. every dollar you spend has a value, and that value is represented by gold (atleast most of the time) safely secured somewhere. That's why when people counterfeit money, it causes inflation (nothing backs up the money= everything is worth less)
+VideoGameExpert Paper money is worthless.
yeah sorry videogame but they gave up on the gold standard in 1971... Paper money still has value though as long as it's acknowledge and quantity is controlled.
And inflation is a result of increased demand that pushes the equilibrium of supply/demand to higher price levels. The more you know.
THIS NEEDS TO BE A NETFLIX SHOW.
Bro this guy is a smart guy if u listen to the darknet diary’s the whole story is crazy
Watches full video
*FBI wants to know your location*
Deny.
*ACCEPT 🅱️*
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Female body inspectors ftw!
They already know.
I mean he’s right here so he did get caught...
It’s like he paid the fine with the 500 million he had left 😂😂😂
I HEARED THAT HE PAYED THEM WITH THE FAKE MONEY
1500 dollar fine wow why are Canadians so nice
@@faranocks no its Canadian lmao this happened in Canada
Eduardo Vargas l
Plus 200 million
@@thegamingworld99 but he counterfeited usd
Yeah buddy Thanks for your co-operation, sorry to have to give you a $1,500 fine, no hard feelings aye?
I swear these quebecois be wilding😂
Oh yeah yeah
En effet
Oh yeah yeah
en tbrnk
Yes we are
These are the type of guys we need on Ted talks
I remember tommy vercetti tryna run away with counterfeit money in gta vice city
Am I the only one who thinks it's strange GQ posted this?
GQ stands for gentleman's quarterly and he made a quarter of a billion. Not relevant but I thought it was interesting
GQ's audience are 'thugs'.
This man found a way to scam the system. I'm by no means a criminal, but i do give him props for finding a harmless way to free himself.
"Harmless" is extraordinarily lenient. The inflation that this creates causes a lot of suffering in the world.
@@KingArthurWswhen the government does it, it’s fine?😂😂
Governmental printed 27 trillion in 2008 which is 35 trillion today and that was just 08 a few hundred billion let alone a million isn't even a drop in the inflation. There's 4 trillion dollars in actual physical circulation with everything being a derivative loan off that starting capital which is at in the USA alone 650 trillion
WAIT A MINUTE this guy made 50million illegally and got a 1500$ fine?
~Something's wrong I can feel it~
The rich sees an economic crisis as a
garage sale also the rich stays rich by investing and diversifying their portfolio with stocks, Crypto currency and Forex trading which is the wisest thing every individual needs to do and it's real profiting
@Scott Wilson Yeah you're right one needs to diversify to have different streams of income
Well I've been an investor in crypto trading and I can say it's really profiting
Forex?
I've heard about Forex and bitcoin, watched multiple videos but always get confused
I was an investor of stocks but sold all off and invested on Forex I've been doing well
This video ends like a promotion for counterfeiting currency
He isn't doing much different than the Federal Reserve spitting out money with nothing to back it. 🤷
I wonder if that $50m is still in circulation
Def
Yes supposedly they occasionally find his bills but they're so hard to detect that its impossible to get all $50m+
A man literally lost his life for a $20 counterfeit bill. #BlackLivesMatter
Sure did
People get life in prison for small amount of drugs and he only has to pay 1500 dollar for his crime and he laughs at the end American justice at it's best .. priceless
Master Plan he snitched
He's Canadian
The Americans were investigating him though, he was going to be extradited
Ppl don’t get LIFE senteces in prison in UK or USA for small amount of drugs that’s a myth probably 1 in a million unless it’s a batch of heroin and it’s their second third fourth charge for it
@@mitchelljosephmccartney6428 Drug offenders make up a third of all federal prisoners. For a NON-VIOLENT crime. GTFO with your stupid self. Maybe if the 9.3 million dollars the government spends a day housing non-violent drug offenders was spent on something like education less people like you would exist.
The drug war has cost over a trillion dollars and people do drugs at an increasingly higher rate each year. Stop playing yourself.
Sources:
Washington Post
Americanprogress.org
Now excuse me, I have to smoke.
If he's intelligent enough, he would've told people he only made $250M in counterfeits but in actuality has an extra couple million tucked away he "forgot" to tell the police about.
Only a fool would give it all up.
There's always that emergency stash haha.
are u slow watch full video
Examining the printing machines can tell you how much he actually printed. Even desktop printers have hard coded page counts for printed pages.
which can be erased and it's really easy to do...
He doesn't strike me as someone who would know that. Most people don't know that nor care to know that.
"New Episode of "The Biggest Liar"."
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Boy snitch on the whole crew for no jail time ? Is he still living?
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jeremiah Jones did you get arrested with him?
jeremiah Jones are you guys like friends or do you know him?
I think he snitched on himself.
He snitched on dis video 😂
Him in the intro:
North korea: Hold my beer
While explaining his punishment he forgot to mention the really hard slap on the knee authorities gave him.
“We did go to the moon!” 😂 now that’s an abundant mindset that will be sure to make any man rich
The US went to the moon, you counterfeited our money. Haha
Finally a good counterfeiting video! I've been looking one up for AGES!
His thought/logic process is hilarious lol.
Well if this videos out then he clearly didn’t get away with it😂😂😂
The Government gets away with it Everyday what's the Problem
anyone got the suppliers phone number? haha
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Tai Green Its called a photocopyer.
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I love how I click on this video to watch it but not before wells Fargo shows me an advertisement for their new credit app😂😂
“$1500 fine” *pays with counterfeit money
That laugh tho I can tell that meant the government ain't to smart 😂
this man isnt that bad, banks do the same every day but we're some how okay with that
+A.S.M hello i f you need counterfeit contact
mamarosals21@gmail.com
got mine from there
Parrot king4 wtf lol
They're onto you ASM
money is worth nothing ... it's all bout the value we give to it ..
You don't understand economics
This guy's lawyer was next level!
Serious question: do you get to keep the money you made? He had to pay a simole 1500$ fine so does he get to keep the rest?
The Canadian fine was only $1500?! That means that each $166,667 is only worth $1 to them. $166,667 X 1500 = $250M. I wonder if he paid the fine in counterfeit $20's, LOL
6977warrior1 he gave back $200 m too... ridiculous how the people in these comments have such subpar listening skills. He also rattled out all of his associates too.
6977warrior1 h
@@BreadStickrekt yes but. Fake 200. Means trash money, they can't legally use it lol
He did this and got off with no jail time. Yet I watched a video yesterday of stupid American laws, and a dude got over 6 years federal prison for importing lobster tails in bags ("supposed to be in boxes")
Are you serious?🤣 lmao poor guy
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About six months ago a guy got 13 years for possession of 3 grams of marijuana- enough to roll two cigarettes. They called it a third strike even though he hadn't committed any crimes for over ten years, got married and raised several children, had a good job, and was not on parole or probation. He was black. Mrs. Kardashian tried to help him but the judge said his hands were tied! If that judge was really doing the right thing he would have dropped the charges because the penalty didn't fit the " crime". I would have said that if you didn't like it fire me but I am not putting this man behind bars for thirteen years.
Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.”
the best money printers are our corrupt government. brrrr
No way u print $250 Ms get caught and not sell the whole squad up the river lmao
So this guy just walked away with 50 mil with no criminal records, jail time, or anything else
Ethan Angasu, yup
Ethan Angasu I'm not worthy I'm not worthy (Waynes World) 😁
+Ethan Angasu you a snitch
Oh I guarantee you there is way more to the story.
he sold 50 million of it before he was caught
He looks kinda like a young Rick Harrison but with hair.
ah yes searching fake vs real Cuban cigars gives me this
This man a legend with that you do the math line 🙌🙌🙌🔥🔥🔥
Lol
So impressive . Wickr: hanandez78
Imagine if he was black lol
black people aren't that smart
Dragon aye bro chill , what’s wrong w you...
@@@spritebleeding It wasn't African people who thought the world was flat and bled out sick people as a means to heal them. Africa enjoyed magnificent ancient civilizations, while you rolled around in filth and lice. The only thing white man created was crimes against humanity and patent office. If the white man was so smart, why hasn't he figured out how not to burn in the sun?
Dragon
Lol I agree!!!!!
Yeah black people couldet pull this off just saying
How is he going to use fake money for the rest of his life
If this crime was committed in the US you’d be sentenced to life in prison.
the you do the math ending was the most inspirational thing i’ve ever seen in my life :,)
Wait. So this guy does something so serious and gets away with it. While others are still getting incarcerated for weed. #failsystem
Recognize Real I think it was the circumstances
stargirl 😂😂
Nobody is going to jail for weed
This guy was smart though. What he did takes balls and brains. Any poser, empty suit, wannabe tough guy 13 year old can smoke weed. I say this is proof that the system works. We don't need anymore druggies running the streets, they contribute absolutely nothing to society with their habit. This guy is a National hero & I await his statues placement in D.C. or his head carved on Mount Rushmore.
@Chris Ruiz It takes a massive set of nads to snitch on your buddies. God bless this stool pigeon!
FBI watching this video: Interesting....
You do know they wanted your equipment so they could start printing it for themselves.
He didn't get away with shit. Every single penny this guy has or spends is very closely monitored.
Matty Matt Matt You ever heard of foreign bank accounts?
The fact that this man walked away with a $1,500 fine is crazy
He has snitch written all over. It's only obvious.
Bro, you got caught. The best counterfeiter is North Korea... Yes, you heard that correctly.
“We did go to the moon” 🤣
1:21 dat momment when u tell a joke and you are the only one dat laughs
Lmao