Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Peru produces 60% of the world's counterfeit US dollars. Their fake hundreds are so perfect that they circulated through American banks, ATMs, and cash registers for years before anyone noticed.
In 2016, the Secret Service launched Operation Sunset - their largest counterfeit raid in history. What they discovered in Lima shocked even veteran investigators: techniques no one thought counterfeiters would ever attempt, innovations born from economic desperation, and a criminal operation that turned poverty into profit at an unprecedented scale.
This documentary reveals the step-by-step process behind the world's most sophisticated counterfeit operation. From an unexpected source of perfect paper to methods so labor-intensive they shouldn't have been profitable, discover how Peru became the unexpected capital of fake American currency.
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Peru produces 60% of the world's counterfeit US dollars. Their fake hundreds are so perfect that they circulated through American banks, ATMs, and cash registers for years before anyone noticed.
In 2016, the Secret Service launched Operation Sunset - their largest counterfeit raid in history. What they discovered in Lima shocked even veteran investigators: techniques no one thought counterfeiters would ever attempt, innovations born from economic desperation, and a criminal operation that turned poverty into profit at an unprecedented scale.
This documentary reveals the step-by-step process behind the world's most sophisticated counterfeit operation. From an unexpected source of perfect paper to methods so labor-intensive they shouldn't have been profitable, discover how Peru became the unexpected capital of fake American currency.
Join this 'Paper Pilot Club' to get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UCzgWZmqmKpmsr4oPWITusKA/join
SUBSCRIBE: bit.ly/beyondFactsSUB
#fake
#dollar
#beyondfacts
