I've seen all those
there's been some online chatter, downplay of the whole thing. Can you tell me if these gents have been charged with fraud? Has it been investigated properly? And why did the Italian police spend a week saying they can't tell if they're real or not, suddenly they're "shoddy fakes".

If they are fakes, why wasn't the biggest counterfeiting in history all over the TV news? not just confined to a few websites? What happened to the 2 guys?
(knackerz is skinning up, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 5:24, 3 replies)

you said
there was a complete news blackout. there clearly wasn't.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 5:33, closed)

I wouldn't consider that proper news coverage
have the guys been arrested? No.

If I had a fake 20 bob note, would I get arrested? Yes

Find me the names of the 2 guys and I'll admit I'm defeated
(knackerz is skinning up, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 6:21, closed)

Artist's Impression of the Bonds:

(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 9:05, closed)

Pffft! ^this!
And double ^^this!
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:38, closed)

Much better than the original post!

(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Fri 28 Aug 2009, 14:52, closed)

why thankyou
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 11:22, closed)

You.
have to admit, it is quite odd how the largest fraud or counterfieting operation the world has ever seen isn't on any major news network in this country. We have 'D' notices - the rest of the world doesn't.
(dchurch bah, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 6:53, closed)

Maybe the police spent a week unsure of their authneticity, because they don't see these every day. I for one would spend about a week before I knew if one of these was real or not. Then, when I discover it is someone's scrawling on the back of a napkin, I would, suddenly declare that they were shoddy fakes!
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Fri 28 Aug 2009, 14:54, closed)

but it leaves the big questions
why were there no arrests?

why was the story not covered? (that means it's new to 99% of the posters here)

Plus, tugueboy is a journalist, but all he's going by is google searches.
(knackerz is skinning up, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 3:04, closed)