Do You Really Need a Color Printer to Counterfeit Money?

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"It couldn't have been a more basic and kind of pathetic operation. And it was two kids in their 20s you know fucking around in Brooklyn and it worked," he says. "I mean isn't that what like there are thousands of people that just spend their whole lives trying to make sure that you can't just buy a color printer and start printing hundreds?" the actor adds.

With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. By the year 2000, there were 72 million of these homemade dollars in circulation. The real question is… who was behind them all?

Today, we talk to a woman who “made” her own money.

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