I'm made to feel by the bank that perhaps there are two layers of transgender people – the real ones who have a GRC and fakes like me who don't have a certificate".
It was a beautiful thing: no low-quality encodes, no fakes, no dupes, no movies, no TV shows.
Indeed, paintings known to be fakes by Han van Meegeren, whom you mentioned, were so good that a legitimate market for them flourished.Better qualifications to work in the art market would help, as both its size and notoriety increase.
Its goods are more trusted by mainland consumers, who are wary of the low-quality fakes that are common on their side.
But when users started challenging the suspicious charges levied on fraudulent transactions and buyers complained about the fakes, the company initially insisted that there was no problem and users had to pay up.
The work of many modern painters is easy to forge and while they may be sold originally as "honest" fakes, they can pass into the market and be taken as originals.
Rival warlords issued their own shillings for a while and there are a fair number of fakes in circulation.
Others accept the risk of holding a few fakes as a cost of doing business (shillings are often handed over in thick bundles of 100 notes).
That has also been the approach of the British government in response to the publication of photographs that may well be fakes but that could nevertheless indicate that genuine abuses have taken place (see article).
Part of the ransom money flows to local communities that provide services to pirates.Payments go to cooks, pimps and lawyers, who are increasingly sought after, as well as banknote-checkers with machines that can detect fakes.
Nacho Girón, a journalist who has written a book on the market, insists that this story is itself one of La Salada's fakes.
