Famous Counterfeits...
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Anatasios Arnaouti and the Counterfeit Money
How could a man who had recently been released from jail and was supposedly unemployed afford a house worth £250,000 and drive a £70,000...
Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale
Counterfeits can come in all shapes and forms. In the case of Frank Abagnale, virtually all his life has been counterfeit. He was the person on whom the movie Catch...
Han Van Meegeren: Famous Art Forger
Why would a painter who was very successful with his own work become a forger of old masters? In the case of Dutchman Han Van Meegeren, the answer would seem to have...
Morrall Magoon: Canadian Counterfeiter
For almost as long as money has existed, people have been counterfeiting it. When it was just coins made from precious metals like gold and...
Stephen Jory: Britain's Greatest Counterfeiter?
There are counterfeiters, and then there are super counterfeiters. Stephen Jory, who died at the age of 57 in 2006, was definitely in the latter...
The Bolton Forgers
Crime goes on everywhere, even behind the most respectable and unlikely facades. But in a garden shed in a council house in Bromley Cross in Bolton, one of the...
The Hitler Diaries
In 1983 a document emerged that astounded people, as the German magazine Stern proclaimed it had obtained diaries written by the late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. What...
The Ultimate Price for Fake Money
These days we expect those caught counterfeiting, even currency forgers, to receive jail sentences of no more than a few years. But it wasn’t always that way. Going...
Which Counterfeits Hit the Market Before the Real Thing?
Some counterfeit items are bigger business than others. Where there’s a great deal of anticipation for a product it can even happen that the...
