Stories like this show why it’s important to have a counterfeit detector. This guy used his computer to make 80 $100 bills and nearly 400 $10 bills and went around local stores in Hartford to buy small items and get change in real money.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct–counterfeitcharge0303mar03,0,3875952.story

  HARTFORD, Conn. - A Windsor man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for making counterfeit money.

Dwight Benjamin pleaded guilty in June to one count of manufacturing counterfeit obligations, a federal crime. The 24-year-old has already served 13 months in prison on state forgery charges, so he won’t have to serve any more time on the federal charges.

U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor says that between April 2004 and February 2005, Benjamin used his computer to make 80 $100 bills and nearly 400 $10 bills. He used them at stores around Hartford to buy small items and get change in real money.