6 trillion dollar conspiracy

[Olf]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17076378

Sorry but I'm not buying this at all. How could you seriously consider this to be a forgery type crime $6,000,0000,000,000 dollars FFS. Not exactly cash under the counter at the local Chinese restaurant is it? Or is it?

Surely something far dodgier going on here. And the US government say they are fake - can't imagine what they have to gain from them being fake can you?

Fooking weird.

[Pints]

As suggested in the article, they could have been sold to some unsuspecting soul who thought it'd be a good way to invest their life savings.

[Olf]

Pints said:

As suggested in the article, they could have been sold to some unsuspecting soul who thought it'd be a good way to invest their life savings.

Yeah sure - I often buy bonds in $1 billion dollar denominations - just to clear out the back of the sofas.

Edited by Olf on Friday 17th February 23:50

[pacman1]

So the crims tried a spot of quantative easing? Stroke of genius if they'd got away with it!

[davepoth]

Google "Treaty of Versailles Boxes" and you get to tinfoil hat websites very quickly.

Here's a good thing on the 2009 haul from Gawker.

http://gawker.com/5295490/the-billions-in-fake-tre...

[Haggleburyfinius]

pacman1 said:

So the crims tried a spot of quantative easing? Stroke of genius if they'd got away with it!

It is a very strange story though...

[Pints]

Olf said:

Yeah sure - I often buy bonds in $1 billion dollar denominations - just to clear out the back of the sofas.

Edited by Olf on Friday 17th February 23:50

I assume the reference to billion dollar deminations was in the video - I'm mobile browsing so am unable to watch the clip.

If that's the case, then I can understand your suspicion.

[Oakey]

These apparently;



There has to be more to this?

[Nuclear Biscuit]

I thought this was going to be another climate change thread.

[Oakey]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-18/no-one-kn...

[Odie]

They are real...

[Oakey]

According to that Bloomberg article apparently collectors will still pay for them. Maybe they should frame each bond and stick them on Ebay!

[pacman1]

Oakey said:

According to that Bloomberg article apparently collectors will still pay for them. Maybe they should frame each bond and stick them on Ebay!

'Reserve not met..'

[hornet]

Olf said:

Yeah sure - I often buy bonds in $1 billion dollar denominations - just to clear out the back of the sofas.

Edited by Olf on Friday 17th February 23:50

Who said anything about paying $1bn for them? There are greedy and/or gullible people out there who would undoubtedly part with amounts of cash for things like this. Doesn't have to be anything near face value for the scam to make money.