Billion Dollar Bills

If you're determined to be a counterfeiter, it seems to me there are smarter ways to do it than trying to create bogus $1 billion bills. But apparently there are a lot of suckers out there. “You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fakes, but some people are still taken in,” says James Todak, deputy special agent in charge for the Secret Service in Los Angeles. (In case you're considering this line of work, the largest real bill ever produced was the $100,000 Series 1934 Gold Certificate featuring the portrait of President Woodrow Wilson.)