Who among us hasn’t wished we could print our own money at some point or another? In this story, sneaky customers actually do just that… and because an employee has been told to use a broken ...

Researchers present a novel framework that uses image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins. The researchers' framework uses fuzzy association rules ...

E-cigarette vending machines have been found to fail in detecting counterfeit IDs, allowing teenagers to easily purchase ...

Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience.

Like most people, you purposefully count your cash the instant the bank ATM spits it out. You won’t be shortchanged, certainly not by a machine. But what if the cash you receive is phony? You didn’t ...