Internet Delivers Movie Money Directly to You – and the Criminals

If you have been enjoying a new blockbuster movie at the theatre or binge watching the latest series on your sofa, then you’ve most likely seen impressive piles of cash. This is actually fake cash, manufactured as a prop, especially for the camera.

This so called ‘movie money’ or ‘prop money’ can enhance any film production. Not long ago, movie money wasn’t very easy to get, much less even known about. The internet, like with so many things, has changed that. Today, movie and prop money is widely and cheaply promoted via the internet – and this has opened up whole new fields of opportunity for cons, criminals and counterfeiters.

‘We talk a great deal about security features for banknotes that are designed to prevent counterfeiting, but we need to talk more about how the internet is changing things,’ says Tod Niedeck, Marketing Director at Crane Currency.