Fake Money

[Callie]

I work in retail, and today a customer tried to pay with two fake $50's. I knew something was off by the feeling. They also looked off. I checked for a watermark, and didn't see one. Then moved to the serial numbers which were the same. The lady pretended to be on her phone, and acting shocked something was wrong. She was telling the person to come to that door, and ended up leaving. I had told her I needed to get my manager. She did leave the fake money.


Now I wonder if this gets handed over to the police? (The money).

 

[usnuzuloose]

Depends on company policy. Excellent catch. And what really helps is the person is on video for police to identify. Did you call the manager?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Not sure but it may go to the FEDS.

DH has a coworker who has a kid that was doing counterfeit money and he went to federal prison for a couple of yrs.

 

[littlejimmy]

dang. I live in boring circles. I don't know anyone who has kids that do cool stuff like that. a little drinking, some pot and maybe some vandalism...just run of the mill stuff

 

[lauradis]

Happens at our hotel sometimes. We don't except fake money per management

Only happen once to me and it was business guy who stays all the time he tried using it to pay for his adult video charges (talk about embarrassing for him) it was gay porn too and he was married with kids

We keep fifty dollar fake bill and handed it over to the bank. He paid with his personal cc

 

[cassandrap83]

When I worked at the bank, we would occasionally receive counterfeit money. Most times the money would arrive in the night-deposits of retail stores. That money gets sent directly to the secret service.

Some fakes are better than others, but IMO you can always tell by the way it feels.

 

[njmom47]

I work in corporate for a chain that gets quite a bit of counterfeit money. We are reimbursed by our parent company who has insurance on it.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

dang. I live in boring circles. I don't know anyone who has kids that do cool stuff like that. a little drinking, some pot and maybe some vandalism...just run of the mill stuff

Just to give you some perspective, it is not "cool stuff", it is absolutely gut wrenching. The coworkers son in this story is a heroin addict.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Reported.

Although I have to say I'm impressed you actually added spam to a relevant thread.

 

[DopeyDame]

Reported.

Although I have to say I'm impressed you actually added spam to a relevant thread.

That was my thought too. Pretty impressive to pick up the fake money theme.

 

[BunsenH]

Reported

 

[Kogo Shuko]

Man, that is one persistent bot.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Man, that is one persistent bot.

Pretty sure it's the thread's title that's catching their computer's attention causing the multiple posts.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

Pretty sure it's the thread's title that's catching their computer's attention causing the multiple posts.

Judging by how many times it posted, I would also suspect that perhaps it was posting every time there was a new post in the thread.

Usually on the board I run and manage, the bot comes in and posts once never to be seen again. MAYBE it makes two threads on two different topic forums. Sad to see they're making the stupid bots more elaborate.

 

[bcla]

Sounds like whatever spam posted was removed.

That being said, I've noticed all the Target stores around here now have counterfeit detectors. Not quite sure what they look out for, but any $50 or $100 goes in immediately, and sometimes $20s.

I looked it up, and the most common detectors look for bleached bills. It used to be common for counterfeiters to bleach one dollar bills (and eventually five dollar bills) and then reprint anything from $20 to $100 on them. However, with all the latest tech like color shifting ink, plastic strips, and watermarks, that's not going to work unless it's counterfeited as an older bill. Still - apparently the five dollar bill bleaching still apparently worked sometimes because cashiers weren't checking carefully for the correct strip or, color shifting ink, or watermark. They saw something, which was "good enough".

And the trick of photocopying a bill simply won't work these days since the paper isn't anything close.

 

[SkaGoat]

Stopping counterfeiters is another reason some countries have moved to polymer (plastic) bills Australia and Canada are two big ones.

 

[bcla]

Stopping counterfeiters is another reason some countries have moved to polymer (plastic) bills Australia and Canada are two big ones.

The cotton/linen blend used in US bills is pretty hard to counterfeit. One would think that the specific watermark and UV plastic strip combo would work, as well as the color shifting ink. However, not everyone checks.

One type of business I've been to where everything gets the complete check is casinos. Anything over $1 gets thoroughly checked. They look for the strip, the watermark, and hold each bill against the light to match the proper watermark image.

 

[tvguy]

Stopping counterfeiters is another reason some countries have moved to polymer (plastic) bills Australia and Canada are two big ones.

They are are counterfeiting the polymer bills too.

http://o.canada.com/business/polymer-money-counterfeit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...unterfeit-50-notes-circulating-Australia.html

 

[LBIJim]

Sounds like whatever spam posted was removed.

That being said, I've noticed all the Target stores around here now have counterfeit detectors. Not quite sure what they look out for, but any $50 or $100 goes in immediately, and sometimes $20s.

I looked it up, and the most common detectors look for bleached bills. It used to be common for counterfeiters to bleach one dollar bills (and eventually five dollar bills) and then reprint anything from $20 to $100 on them. However, with all the latest tech like color shifting ink, plastic strips, and watermarks, that's not going to work unless it's counterfeited as an older bill. Still - apparently the five dollar bill bleaching still apparently worked sometimes because cashiers weren't checking carefully for the correct strip or, color shifting ink, or watermark. They saw something, which was "good enough".

And the trick of photocopying a bill simply won't work these days since the paper isn't anything close.

In May of 2013 a cashier at a souvenir shop at Fisherman's Wharf refused to accept my $5 bill for a trinket. I suppose they might get a lot of funny money there, but it seems odd that someone would counterfeit such small bills. (I realize this is not what you're referring to.)

I have no idea how I got the $5 bill; probably as change earlier in the day. It looked fine to me, and I didn't have any problem passing it sometime later that day.

 

[disney1990]

I work in retail, and today a customer tried to pay with two fake $50's. I knew something was off by the feeling. They also looked off. I checked for a watermark, and didn't see one. Then moved to the serial numbers which were the same. The lady pretended to be on her phone, and acting shocked something was wrong. She was telling the person to come to that door, and ended up leaving. I had told her I needed to get my manager. She did leave the fake money.


Now I wonder if this gets handed over to the police? (The money).

We have one of the pens that you color the bill to determine if it is real. If we do that, where I work, then we are not responsible if it turns out to be fake.