When you think of what kind of career, a rapist or a murderer might have, what comes to mind?

Do you think of a home security system installer like Dennis Raider, the BTK killer?

Or maybe a small business owner like John Wayne Gacy?

Or do you think about a chocolate factory worker like Jeffrey Dahmer?

Forget he did that?

I did.

Do you think of random normal jobs like these,

or do you think of the scores of jobless drifters we've covered here? Most recently, Sam Little,

people allergic to gain full employment. What you might not think of is a counterfeiter.

You don't think a counterfeiter as much at all, do we? In our digital age,

when we focus on financial crimes, I feel like we tend to think of scammers, Nigerian princes,

and random people texting and or calling you to let you know that your Amazon account was charged

$800 for a new IMAQ, but don't worry, they can sort out this fraudulent charge and refund

you if you just give them your banking

information. And yet, counterfeiters are definitely still around. They've been around for as long as there's

been some kind of money to try and copy. Before the introduction of paper money, counterfeiters such as the

English couple, Thomas and Ann Rogers, got caught shaving the edges off of silver coins

to decrease their weight and then repurposed those stolen silver shavings for their own monetary

game. Thomas was hanged, drawn, and quartered. I guess all of that for this crime. And was

burned alive. Some of the first legal tender, having just shown up in North America, Mary

Butterworth would be one of the first counterfeiters to allegedly exploit money's new paper

form, using starch cloth and a hot iron to transfer the pattern of a note onto paper and then

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