No Sale: Million-Dollar Bill Gets North Carolina Man Arrested at Walmart

[BrianBosworth]

Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?

Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart.

Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested.

The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.

Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday.

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[SealLion]

Can you expect anything different to happen if a person tries to pass on a forged million dollar bill?? It is probably not clear that he has an attorney b/c it still might be early in the charge laid for him to get one. It usually takes a few days to acquire one after a person has been arrested over a charge.

Also, the charged individual, if he were to pass on a forged document should have had the foresight to forge documents in smaller increments. It can't be said for sure but perhaps he could have had more success. I am only guessing here but do not forgers usually forge bill documents in smaller bills?? As can be seen this individual has little to no experience in forging documents. The article does not specifically state what methods were used in forging documents. For good reason of course. Investigators need to know what methods were used in the forging process. Most are complicated and are not really that easy. This is even true for professional forgers. A forging process takes time to implement using the right tools, paper, dye, and what-ever other instruments and methods are used. I am pretty sure that professional forgers will take the time to think out the entire process before wanting to hand out a forged document. Placing a real bill onto a photo copying machine does not give out what one would expect. Most photo copying machines will not accept a dollar bill for photo copying b/c the machine can identify it and give the person a message on the digital display of the machine that it cannot copy this item.

I am pretty sure that the sentence for him is not going to be a small one.