To completely prevent burglar by eliminating the values of paper money which is vulnerable to burglar, and to preliminarily prevent burglar by making the function and system widely commonly known by solving the problem that since the decision device of authenticity is on the market for counterfeit currency at present, any countermeasures to illegally acquired paper money due to burglar is not facilitated in a status now, and most of the purposes of the burglar of an ATM lie in cash accumulated in the machine, especially, a large denomination of paper money.

This crime prevention system includes a device and method for bringing effects to eliminate the currency values of existing paper money to paper money stored inside a machine when burglary happens, a mechanism for discriminating the authenticity of the values of the existing paper money when paper money receiving the action is used, and for notifying an institute of the use of the existing paper money whose currency values are judged to be zero, and for making the illegally acquired existing paper money invalid and a mechanism for returning the stolen existing paper money to the victim.