# You find a million dollars - How do you use it without attracting suspicion?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463 "2006-08-05T15:52:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463/81 "2006-08-09T14:01:41Z")

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[QUOTE=hajario]  
I also like **Shagnasty** ’s approach and it was immediately what occurred to me. It does have a slight flaw. After a while you are going to have a whole lot of noticably old currency, espcially nowadays that the design changes every five years or so. I know that old currency is still legal tender but will they guy who spends loads of old cash get noticed?  
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For the millions to be readily portable, I’m supposing it’s going to be in the form of large bills, I’m guessing hundreds. And old hundreds, at least in Canada, are not particularly remarkable (other than for being, you know, hundreds); since they’re so rarely used compared to smaller denominations, they wear slowly and stay in circulation for a long time.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463/82 "2006-08-09T14:39:41Z")

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A million dollars Canadian - what’s that, dinner for two in US? 🆒  
_Ow! Stop hitting me. I was just kidding. I love our northern neighbors. We need to get affordable pharmaceuticals from somewhere._

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463/83 "2006-08-09T15:27:40Z")

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[QUOTE=D\_Odds]  
A million dollars Canadian - what’s that, dinner for two in US? 🆒\*[/size]  
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At last report, the CAD was around 0.892 USD.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-million-dollars-how-do-you-use-it-without-attracting-suspicion/367463/84 "2006-08-09T15:56:25Z")

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[QUOTE=matt\_mcl]  
At last report, the CAD was around 0.892 USD.  
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Just ruin a little good-natured ribbing with facts, why doncha?

(Actually, I looked it up before posting on the chance that it was worth more than $1, although I was pretty sure it wasn’t - I got 1 CAD = 0.8898 USD)

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