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wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:

>There was a  story  a year or two ago  about people  being convicted  of
>counterfeiting  BART  tickets.  How  could  this  be detected since  the
>individual tickets aren't serial numbered, are they?  What difference is
>there  between a  ticket that BART  added $10 to, and a  copy  of such a
>ticket?

I know one of the people convicted of all that (he did the technology) and
this is his story:

This is Bill Squire and I will say you are right.  Yes we took old five cent
tickets and put $7.95 in "virtual cash" on them, and then put them in an add-
fare machine, added a nickel and got a BART issued eight dollar ticket--total
cost: ten cents.  It was only when my friend (who was a minor at the time)
got involved with "free" donuts at the "safe hollidays program" ran by the
BART cops that a cop set us up to "make money" with $32 tickets printed on 
blanks.  Note that the cops created the crime!  Oh ain't that America!!!

Send any replies to Bill through me.....


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