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The Jordan Harbinger Show

489: Frank Bourassa | The World’s Greatest Counterfeiter Part Two

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 58 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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When I have to give them the money, they got the money out of it.

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And the parking lot at a hotel has been sitting there for two months.

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So we went to the truck and we got there.

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Well, there was this whole thing. It was came down here.

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There was a bomb squad.

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They got sniffer dogs and this.

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And then they came to me and they said, listen,

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you know, there could be some scenarios.

0:19.8

Could it explode on the highway or something?

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Would you be willing to drive the truck to the RMP headquarters?

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