A Million Dollar Bill Is The New Level of Financial Scam

Authorities have arrested a man who walked to the Regions Bank in Clearwater, South Carolina, presented a fake million dollar bill and said "I would like to open a bank account with this million dollar bill..."

What was he thinking?

The bank teller was not deceived with this and not captivated by seeing a fake million dollar bill. The long story short, the police came the arrested the man.

NBC reports: "The Aiken County Sheriff's Office arrested an Augusta man who tried to open a bank account with a counterfeit one million dollar bill."

"Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.

The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.

The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.

The federal government has never printed a million dollar bill, Frank said.”