Not really though, are they? Inflation is the loss of value of a currency over time, while counterfeiting is a basic form of fraud where someone claims they have more money than they have.
You could say that money printing and counterfeiting are similar things on opposite sides of the law. But that is still a shallow, high-school level understanding. When a con artist pays for things with counterfeit money they don't typically invest this back into the economy and produce more value, so counterfeiting is virtually guaranteed to produce inflation if it is not curtailed.
But governments print money in huge quantities all the time with minimal inflation.
You could say that money printing and counterfeiting are similar things on opposite sides of the law. But that is still a shallow, high-school level understanding. When a con artist pays for things with counterfeit money they don't typically invest this back into the economy and produce more value, so counterfeiting is virtually guaranteed to produce inflation if it is not curtailed.
But governments print money in huge quantities all the time with minimal inflation.