Burglar knocked up counterfeit notes as plod pounced
US COPPERS could not believe it when they investigated a burglary to find a suspect still fiddling with the victim's home computer.
Apparently, the burglar saw the natty colour printer and a scanner and hit on a wizard idea to use it to counterfeit cash.
Goldonna Police Chief Kenneth Martin told Fox News that a passer-by had seen a suspicious vehicle parked in woods behind a house.
When the fuzz had a look inside the house they found a burglar frantically trying to make counterfeit cash by scanning it in and printing it out. He had managed to make at least one green back which meant he could be done for counterfeiting.
It seems he thought it was better to set up his forgery ring in situ rather than nick PC and try it somewhere safer.
Charles Chase Nobles, 28, was later charged with counterfeiting, unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling and a breaking probation.
Unfortunately for the victim, his printer and computer have now been seized as evidence. Tough on crime, tough on the victims of crime.
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... just an idiot for counterfeitting to begin with. 

All color printers sold have an invisible signature that the Secret Service (whose primary job, as set up by President Lincoln, is to investigate cases of coutnerfeit) can use to track down the owner of the printer. 

So if the bumbling intruder were to do this scheme, using someone else's printer and scanner was the best option. Just not the smartest crime considering the quite stiff federal sentences and ease of being caught.

Funny story though.
"...invisible code...to help track down owners..."

Woo. First of all, no, they don't have an "invisible code" - at best you could maybe rig a laser printer to micro-encode something on very special paper, but inkjets spraying onto generic copier-quality paper have nowhere near the acuity to do any such thing.

Secondly...unless you are really prepared to launch into some totally whacked-out Big Brother conspiracy theory, if I walk into K-Mart and buy a $50 printer on sale with cash, there is no defined (or available) trace of who purchased that printer.
Somebody got nicked in Phoenix, AZ for printing money, buying high-ticket items at a local Wal-Mart and returning them to a different location - as to filter it out.

They got caught when they sent the printer back to HP as the result of a malfunction. Paper jam....
Do a Google search for the 'Eurion' pattern. You can't copy banknotes - the scanner, printer and imaging software all recognise that the image is a banknote. This pattern is on the new $50s but not on $100s
Yes laser printers of many/most manufacturers print a code all over the page, but not regular inkjet printers as far as is known.
And about the story: I don't assume the guy had the right paper with metal lines and watermarks and embedded UV sensitive markers with him, nor had he time to try to 'spend' the printed nonsense so I don't see the how they could make counter fitting stick really if he has a half-way decent lawyer or a decent judge, although he probably won't get such.
I know this man. Went to school with him, hell he was my childhood "boyfriend" in the 5th grade!LOL This is just incredibly sad. I moved away years ago and was googling the little brother of a high school friend to find her and see he just arrested someone else I knew! 

Chase was a really sweet kid with the biggest heart. He wasnt a bully or a mean person at all, if anything he would take up for others and stop kids from doing the wrong thing. He told me once years and years ago that if someone made fun of my walking disability ( thank God I outgrew that ) to tell them I would pray for them because obviously someone who would do so a wrong thing needed prayer.

I dont recognize this man who would be so desperate and foolish. I dont know what happenned in life to change him so much, be it drugs or whatever. But theres nothing funny about this to me.

And someone will be in MY prayers now.