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back in the day if you really wanted to try a cigarette or a beer but were a few

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months or even years south of proper it

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often wasn't all that hard to get your friend's cool older brother to make you

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a fake driver's license that looked close enough to the real thing to fool a

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clerk and allow you to walk out of the store Contraband in hand in modern times

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though governments and other organizations have used technology to

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finally start to seriously combat the

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ancient practices of forgery and

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counterfeiting not just to make sure you're really of legal age but to

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prevent serious crimes like human trafficking and keep your money safe so

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what are some of the things that make documents like passports driver's

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licenses credit cards and cash so hard

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to forge these days let's start with

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something that's usually pretty easy to see the hologram because a hologram is

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really a precise record of how light

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defract off of an object at different angles it's harder to produce than a

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regular photograph you need lasers lenses and special film making these a

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popular security feature on ID cards credit cards and passports but of course

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Holograms can still be copied given the

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right tools so these days you might also

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see very fine engraving in the Hologram

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if you look closely enough which is even more difficult to copy if you don't have

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the same equipment that was originally used to make it but what about the stuff

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then that's a little less obvious and no I'm not talking about the ignorant and

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culturally offensive rumor that Canada made its $100 bills smell like maple

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syrup no wait a minute but rather the

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special inks that are used for printing money or other documents often times

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governments can defeat people that try to modify passports illegally by

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printing them with thermally sensitive ink when the forger tries to tamper with

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the passport a process that often requires heat the ink will change color

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letting officials know that passport is no longer kosher there are also inks

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that can be printed in 2 and A2 diens ions so you can actually feel a bump

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with your finger ones that shift color depending on the viewing angle this is a

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pretty neat feature of the latest US currency and even ones that shine under

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a black light you can learn more about that in this video here but there's more

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to it than just technology and owning the right equipment Sometimes the best

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defense can be simply attention to detail have you ever bought a Louis

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Vuitton purse that has the LV logo cut off by a seam or an iPhone with typos on

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the packaging well the agencies that print money and IDs can even outsmart

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counterfitters through similar means here's an example certain fonts that

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they might use look simple or unremarkable at first glance but might

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have subtleties that make them very hard to reproduce exactly and many times they

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aren't fonts that you can get from Google search but proprietary type faces

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only used by a certain country's government some of which contain

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intentional imperfections to throw counterfeits off the more you know of

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course many of us are using bank or credit cards a heck of a lot more than

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cash these days so stay tuned for a follow-up episode on those new fangled

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chip cards and how and why they are

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harder to copy than those mag Stripes that we're all used to swiping or if by

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