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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