By National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting
A key undertaking of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the dept of the Treasury is the layout and printing of U.S. banknotes. The BEP is chargeable for generating simply recognizable foreign money that's tricky to counterfeit. in recent times, the bureau has famous the trendy info expertise could lead on to completely new kinds of counterfeiting threats, and it has asked a couple of experiences through the NRC to evaluate those evolving threats. during this new request, the BEP requested the NRC to spot and evaluation major rising counterfeiting threats and to evaluate technologically possible counterfeit-deterrent gains for capability use in new designs. this primary document presents an evaluation of rising threats together with quite a lot of electronic imaging and printing recommendations. It additionally provides an research of a platforms method of the counterfeiting risk. the second one record will supply an assessment of recent banknote positive factors to handle those threats.
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IMAGE ACQUISITION To replicate the Federal Reserve note (FRN) using digital technology, a counterfeiter must first transform an analog copy—a physical note, printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)—into a digital format. This is also called image capture. A variety of low-cost, high-quality consumer-grade devices for image capture are available. Capture devices can also be custom-built by enterprising counterfeiters. Table 2-1 provides a summary of image-capture devices, their capabilities, and relative costs.
Haslop, De La Rue. 2005. Presentation to this committee, July 21. 3 E. Foster. See note 1 above. S. dollar as their official national currency. 4 L. DiNunzio and L. Clarke. 2004. The new color of money: safer, smarter, more secure. Proc. L. ), Vol. 5310, pp. 425-439. S. S. S. Secret Service. according to their sources. S. banknote counterfeiting for fiscal year 2005; these numbers are typical of the counterfeiting threat in recent years. S. Secret Service according to their source, either domestic or foreign, and according to whether they were discovered before or after they were passed into circulation.
Anticounterfeiting strategy overseas, therefore, focuses on enforcement with good success. S. S. S. currency include Mexico, Nigeria, and North Korea. S. banknotes, domestic counterfeiting is considerably more opportunistic, is generally smaller in scale, and focuses on smaller bill denominations. In the United States, the $20 note is the most widely used note, primarily because it is most commonly distributed through automated teller machines, or ATMs. It is also the most counterfeited note domestically.