For anyone who knows about this, I received one of these in change today at a Vietnamese Banh Mi shop. (A US dollar bill)
The purpose of the effort is to track paper currency as it travels through the system. It appears to be more of a private venture, not government sponsored.
The bill is clearly identified that it is part of the survey and the idea is to go to the website and enter the info, then you get back data as to where this bill has travelled. Each additional time it is turned over and a new owner registers their find you will receive an e-mail telling you where it next ended up.
Since there are many more Canadian readers here, I shall add that there is also a link for a similar site for your currency.
http://www.whereswilly.com/
Please do not flame me for asking this question, but who is Willy? I do not have any Canadian currency at this time so I can not look for myself. And for those who are unfamilar with US currency, George is the guy on the US dollar bill.
The purpose of the effort is to track paper currency as it travels through the system. It appears to be more of a private venture, not government sponsored.
The bill is clearly identified that it is part of the survey and the idea is to go to the website and enter the info, then you get back data as to where this bill has travelled. Each additional time it is turned over and a new owner registers their find you will receive an e-mail telling you where it next ended up.
Since there are many more Canadian readers here, I shall add that there is also a link for a similar site for your currency.
http://www.whereswilly.com/
Please do not flame me for asking this question, but who is Willy? I do not have any Canadian currency at this time so I can not look for myself. And for those who are unfamilar with US currency, George is the guy on the US dollar bill.
