Counterfeit banknote detection pen: Difference between revisions

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|publisher= [[The Daily Collegian (Penn State)|The Daily Collegian]]

}}</ref> Randi claims to have contacted a [[United States Secret Service]] inspector and asked whether the pen works as advertised, to which the inspector replied "it is not dependable."<ref name="swift_2004-12-03"/> The Secret Service does not include such pens in their guidelines for the public's detection of counterfeit US currency.<ref>{{cite web

|url= http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/money_detect.shtml

|title= Know Your Money - Counterfeit Awareness

|accessdate= 2007-11-06

|publisher= [[United States Secret Service]]

|archiveurl = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20071023030937/http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/money_detect.shtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->
|archivedate = 2007-10-23}}</ref>

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US counterfeiters bleach small denominations and print more valuable bills on the resulting blank paper to evade this test,<ref>{{cite news