On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 [email protected] wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:41:09 BST, Drsolly said:
> > I just got a moneygram. There's this cute thing thats a pink stop sign, 
> > it's heat sensitive, if you touch it, it fades and the reappears. It tells 
> > you so on the moneygram, and it's true.
> 
> It at least proves that if you're being scammed, somebody went to the
> effort of getting suitable paper with the heat-sensitive ink on it, and
> didn't print it off on their personal laser printer.
 
> (Similar to any anti-counterfeiting stuff on paper money - stuff like
> watermarks and color-changing ink don't *prove* the bill is genuine,
> but it significantly raises the bar)
 
No, it doesn't. The channel delivering the info about the paper, is the 
same channel that's delivering the paper. It's *exactly* like a piece of 
paper that says "This piece of paper is genuine, here's a picture of an 
elephant, and that proves it"

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