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The Jordan Harbinger Show

488: Frank Bourassa | The World’s Greatest Counterfeiter Part One

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Frank Bourassa counterfeited and sold $250 million in fake US currency until he was nabbed in an undercover operation. Now he runs a security company and works with the police to catch other counterfeiters.

What We Discuss with Frank Bourassa:
  • How someone creates a quarter of a billion dollars in American $20 bills that not only look genuine, but feel genuine even to experts.
  • The hours of research that Frank spent learning how to create counterfeit money that would pass most muster without immediately going to jail on his first attempt.
  • The catalyst that drove Frank to pursue a life of crime in the first place (and has probably tempted most of us to consider it from time to time).
  • It takes money to make money: Frank reveals the startup fees that went into his operation to literally print the perfect $20 bills en masse.
  • How much labor actually goes into a counterfeiting project at this scale -- once you find a crew you think you can trust.
  • And much more...

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0:00.0

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0:02.4

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0:10.2

Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:12.6

Doing it good 100% of the time and never failing.

0:16.6

Just us walking.

0:17.8

We do miss the steps falling to crack or something and we're good at walking.

0:21.6

We practice and plenty.

0:23.0

Even that we screw up sometime.

0:25.4

If you screw up one place, even if you've been good 4,000 times for four years, it's not

0:32.4

going to matter.

0:33.4

The outcome is going to be the same.

0:34.4

You're going to get caught, you're going to get arrested and then you know it can turn nasty.

0:38.8

You need to avoid that 100% of the time.

0:41.5

So why would you want someone risking pulling up your notes and looking at it?

0:47.8

There was scrutinized more than 50 than 20 obviously.

0:51.1

Nobody looks twice under 20 because that's just what we use.

0:55.0

So the more invisible, the better.

1:01.2

Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger.

1:03.2

On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

1:06.8

most fascinating people.

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