Matthew Cox

They weren't transitioning over to the big-face bills and

As that went on, people started to really look a little bit closer when they would see the old non-big face bills.

So it was these counterfeiters would start trying to play around with how do I get past the pen?

How do I get past the color shifting ink?

How do I get past the watermark?

And I ran across a case right when I started that an individual was trying to do that.

And it was literally the first case I got with the Secret Service.

I was on maybe two months after training.

And it was put on my desk.

And it was one of these things where for the next year and a half, I just kind of tried to put these pieces together.

And we would always find people that kind of had an idea.

Hey, he's six foot tall.

He's about 200 pounds.

Basically, they felt like they were describing me.

I thought, you know, are you putting me on?

And...

So this was the guy that that guy gave up.

Some of them did.

So what would happen is I would say go out to the south side of Chicago, and I'd interview that guy that tried to do that.

And then he would give me a guy that gave him that money.