back in the day if you really wanted to try a cigarette or a beer but were a few
months or even years south of proper it
often wasn't all that hard to get your friend's cool older brother to make you
a fake driver's license that looked close enough to the real thing to fool a
clerk and allow you to walk out of the store Contraband in hand in modern times
though governments and other organizations have used technology to
finally start to seriously combat the
ancient practices of forgery and
counterfeiting not just to make sure you're really of legal age but to
prevent serious crimes like human trafficking and keep your money safe so
what are some of the things that make documents like passports driver's
licenses credit cards and cash so hard
to forge these days let's start with
something that's usually pretty easy to see the hologram because a hologram is
really a precise record of how light
defract off of an object at different angles it's harder to produce than a
regular photograph you need lasers lenses and special film making these a
popular security feature on ID cards credit cards and passports but of course
Holograms can still be copied given the
right tools so these days you might also
see very fine engraving in the Hologram
if you look closely enough which is even more difficult to copy if you don't have
the same equipment that was originally used to make it but what about the stuff
then that's a little less obvious and no I'm not talking about the ignorant and
culturally offensive rumor that Canada made its $100 bills smell like maple
syrup no wait a minute but rather the
special inks that are used for printing money or other documents often times
governments can defeat people that try to modify passports illegally by
printing them with thermally sensitive ink when the forger tries to tamper with
the passport a process that often requires heat the ink will change color
letting officials know that passport is no longer kosher there are also inks
that can be printed in 2 and A2 diens ions so you can actually feel a bump
with your finger ones that shift color depending on the viewing angle this is a
pretty neat feature of the latest US currency and even ones that shine under
a black light you can learn more about that in this video here but there's more
to it than just technology and owning the right equipment Sometimes the best
defense can be simply attention to detail have you ever bought a Louis
Vuitton purse that has the LV logo cut off by a seam or an iPhone with typos on
the packaging well the agencies that print money and IDs can even outsmart
counterfitters through similar means here's an example certain fonts that
they might use look simple or unremarkable at first glance but might
have subtleties that make them very hard to reproduce exactly and many times they
aren't fonts that you can get from Google search but proprietary type faces
only used by a certain country's government some of which contain
intentional imperfections to throw counterfeits off the more you know of
course many of us are using bank or credit cards a heck of a lot more than
cash these days so stay tuned for a follow-up episode on those new fangled
chip cards and how and why they are
harder to copy than those mag Stripes that we're all used to swiping or if by
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