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Amanda Moffitt

Amanda Moffitt

Supervisory Document Analyst for the U.S. Secret Service Counterfeit Forensics Division, featured on the Red Book Podcast discussing counterfeit currency detection.

Sep 24, 2026

11:54
So can you tell us a little bit how you detect counterfeit currency and then kind of maybe also what can the public look for when they're, you know, handling currency that's kind of you see in what's going on now?
12:04
Yeah, so I'll start with the counterfeits.
12:07
You are correct.
12:08
We do have a little over 28,000 specimens, and that's for each counterfeit of record within the Secret Service.
12:17
We have specimens for each of those.
12:19
And the reason it's important to have representative specimens for these counterfeits is because as technology evolved, if you think about our database way back, Pre-1980s, we're not very digitally inclined.
12:34
So some of those older counterfeits, we don't have images in our systems.

14 MINS LATER

26:10
They don't really, I don't know if they get contacted that often, but I know they've been brought into the conversation before about counterfeits.

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