Dive into the extraordinary life of Frank Bourassa, the audacious counterfeiter who printed $250 million in fake U.S. currency. A thrilling tale of deception, meticulous planning, and international intrigue unfolds!
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The USA is the biggest counterfeit 😂
This is a tale of a mere annoucer who lost a beard trimmer and looks unkept.
Ummm American Currency is printed on a cotton linen blend, not paper.
What a legend…and he is only did what Governments are doing every day with "quantitive easing"
lol, Trois-Riviere is not a suburb of Montreal. It’s a 2 hour drive
Damn, if only i had 300k
So, crime that didn’t physically hurt anyone, he made sure no one but him would face any consequences and he managed to outsmart Johnny Law. Bloody legend. Oh, and he has probably managed to launder a healthy amount of his gains through these online courses.
WoW!
Great story
😂😂😂 👏👏👏
His LinkedIn is gold
Be curious how perfect these bills were, there are supposed to be several checks that the Fed Reserve banks use to catch a lot of the fake bills and sort them out of circulation, that they don't usually announce to the world at large.
US currency is not printed on paper.
Brilliant criminal. Worst thing he did was maybe screw, a few banks and possibly a few unsuspecting people.
I can't believe I haven't heard this story. This is one of those "I am not even mad, that's amazing " stories. And I was surprised at how recent. But despite the complex steps he took for secrecy, did he not factor in American extradition or was that conducted more in a grey area?
Bravo frank 👏🏼
Do you speak that fast?
Luckiest guy in the world trust me
US "paper" money is printed on CLOTH Unlike traditional paper made of wood pulp, the "paper" used for currency is made of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. BEP specifications require this blended paper to have special red and blue fibers woven throughout. therefore CLOTH.
This is also why when you forget to take it our of your pockets in the laundry it does not just deteriorate into INKLESS sludge.
Sooooooo, I should do this
free palestine
What is it with guys named 'Frank' There's this guy who's arguably one of the most brilliant counterfeiters ever. Then there's Frank Abagnale who posed as a commercial airline pilot and flew around the world free for years while forging checks. He got caught eventually and eventually ended up working for the FBI.
Now I find that very interesting, very interesting indeed🤔
The US was definitely trying to set him up amd listening to h8s phone
He got super lucky 😂😂
This is one big fuzzy feel good story.
“I’m too stressed out you know what I should get into, Crime” 😂😂😂
40+ years experience in the printing industry here… a lot of the details may be ummm… watered down.
How did he figure out the ink, and the printing plates? None of his history provides experience in detailed jewelry metal work (the plates), or artistic understanding of painting/ printing (the ink). My brother was a printer for over 25 years mainly on German presses. You don’t just buy one and go to printing. Theirs settings you have to work out (plate pressure, ink application to fit the receiving surface, etc), that takes time and not to mention experience on that particular equipment. Not to mention they do breakdown and require a lot of maintenance. I’m going with the police on this one, he had accomplices from the printing press and jewelry business.
You really need a catch phrase inserted at the conclusion of your story, such as " Frank is now off into the shadows, with a possible thirteen million left untapped buried in a ditch somewhere.” I concede; Lacks a tad bit of drama or flavor so to speak. Thanks for the video !! Keep up the good work.
Trois-Rivières isn't a suburb of Montreal -where I live-, it's more than 1 hour and a half north but for the rest, as uge, great video! 👌🏻
This guy is my new hero😊
Brilliant mdfkr😂😂😂😂
Good for him. It's probably not good how much on his side I am in this, but seriously, good – for – him. This should have a movie made about it. It would be so entertaining. No one would believe it was true.
What a great story without all the non-sense interjected
Amazed this wasn't on Casual Criminalist instead!
The word is saga, not sager
This is brilliant…! 😂
Canadian currency is worthless.
😮whoa!!!
If the money was perfect them why sell it and not use it as cash ?
Well done Frank, this is proof that not all hero's wear capes.
I was selling at a festival in Wisconsin a dozen years ago.. and there I met a guy selling peanuts, an American fair staple. Over a few events we became friends (ish). But he told me of one of his many scams, this one involving a trip to Mexico in a U-Haul, buying a color xerox machine with a money order he had tampered with to make its value 300,000 instead of $3… So why goto Mexico for the Xerox machine, well it’s about the software. At the time if you bought that Xerox in America its software would distort money scans and prints, but the same machine in Mexico didn’t have the software for this. So Mexican machines would do a perfect color print of US bills.. and he moved the machine “swiftly” back to Chicago and cranked up the presses.
The start of Hit Em Up
fake money fake money fake money 👍
16:42 Franks instinct and intuition are second to none 😮 and his intelligence
Well considering how the federal reserve is privately owned paying a 6% dividend and it literally creates money out of thin air and doesn’t even need positive equity I’d say the federal reserve printing federal reserve I owe yous is the largest counterfeiter on the planet that and Wall Street banks. But Wall Street banks own the federal reserve.
Hmmm and to think this whole time I thought the kings of counterfeiting sat up in Washington..
fair play simon you are smashing it a new one of your pages i havnt come across before with 800k subs i mean fair play