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A recent surge in counterfeit money in the Nogales has area merchants looking closely at the greenbacks they accept from customers.
Officers from the Nogales Police Department confiscated the notes, which will be forwarded to the U. S. Treasury Department. NPD spokesman Lt. Octavio Gradillas said that no arrests have been made because the parties involved were unaware they were passing money that might be considered spurious.
“It’s not to the point where we feel it’s something specific that is going on, like someone is counterfeiting and passing bills out,” said Gradillas. He said that while the holidays are the usual times that his department sees surges in counterfeit bills, reports of two or three counterfeit bills discovered in a single day are not unheard of.
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The United States Secret Service was established in the 19th century at the end of the American Civil War to try to put an end to counterfeiting when approximately one-third to one-half of all the currency flooding the nation’s market was fake. Today in the 21st century, the Secret Service’s role has expanded to include aggressively pursuing American money counterfeiters and traffickers internationally.
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