From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	Cash, Credit and Crime
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:08:24 +1000

> > There has not been one recorded case of anyone forging
> > our polymer notes.
> >
>
> w00. Sounds like a challenge to me. =P I suspect that the federal
> government of Aust wouldn't release reports of polymer forgery if they did
> exist. Why encourage a crime that everyone "knows" is impossible?

Australia isn't the only country in the world to use polymer notes. And, for
the record: there have been lots of ATTEMPTS at forging the notes, but while
several pass the appearance test (at least at a cursory level), none have
passed the texture test... they don't feel right. All such attempts have
been made by domestic groups, mostly amateurs. International groups with the
resources to do successful counterfeiting don't tend to both with the
polymer notes... for about 1% of the investment, you can make quite passable
US$100 notes, you know. :)

> On a side note, does polymer money mean you literally have "plastic
> money"?

Yes, it does. Our money is plastic, and we don't have to spend ages figuring
out if that's a ten or twenty that we just pulled out. :) (In addition to
the multiple colours, different notes are different sizes... a hundred
dollar note is literally bigger than a twenty. Aids the visually impaired)

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