NEW YORK — The next time you have a Lincoln in your hands, take a real close look -- he might be an imposter.
Thanks to high-quality, low-cost laser and inkjet color printers, counterfeit bills are turning up all over the country, and not just in large denominations.
"Technology has certainly had an impact on counterfeiting," said Marc Connolly, a special agent with the Secret Service in Washington.
"As recently as 1995, computer-generated notes (using a PC and a color printer) made up less than one half of 1 percent of notes passed domestically," Connolly said.
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