Charles Black (counterfeiter)
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Charles Black (born 1928 Lewisham, London) produced counterfeit British and U.S. currency together with traveller's cheques for a number of years before being arrested. As a testament to his skills, his techniques rendered the U.S Department of the Treasury's detection equipment obsolete.
It was while he was in prison, serving a sentence for car-ringing, that he was introduced to the art of forgery. Black's mastery of the subject could only be exclaimed at by those responsible for his arrest and conviction.
He was locked inside for a jail term for the forgeries.
Upon release, he married a Thai lady, and set up his introductions firm which was the first of its kind, starring in over 13 talk shows in the United Kingdom including Trisha and Vanessa talking about the subject of Mail Order Brides.
His book Counterfeiter: The Story of a Master Forger (ISBN 0-312-03805-4) was published in 1989.
In Scotland Yard's celebrated Black Museum of criminal artefacts, where over 500 items are preserved at a constant temperature of sixty-two degrees, a special place is reserved for a set of printing plates, a remarkable series of forged bank-notes, and a cunningly hollowed out kitchen door once used to conceal some of them. Currency counterfeiting can sap its confidence by undermining its economy, as Hitler realised when he ordered the production of famous "white fivers" with which he planned to flood Britain during World War II.
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