How To Detect Counterfeit Money

In what has to be one of the most ridiculous crimes in all of history, a South Carolina man tried to open a bank account with a fake million-dollar bill. The man, Alexander Smith is 31 years old and tried to open the bank account with the funny money on Monday, November 26, 2007. This isn’t the first time that someone has tried to open an account with fake money. However, there is only one problem that Alexander Smith failed to take into consideration. The largest bill that has ever been printed is a bill for $100,000. There has never been a million dollar bill printed.

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Murder on MySpace: Hoax Leads to Suicide

The Internet isn’t a safe place. First there was the news regarding the Craigslist murder of a young woman who answered an ad for a nanny, and now a MySpace hoax has resulted in the suicide of thirteen-year-old girl.

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Download Music — Pay $222,000!

A Minnesota woman was recently found “liable” for copyright infringement in the first case of its kind to go before a jury in United States. Twelve jurors found Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two, liable to pay $9,250 for each song she shared with others online — 24 songs in total, amounting to a $222,000 fine.

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