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Post by msdemos on Jul 21, 2020 19:48:11 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 21, 2020 19:57:29 GMT
no BUT I was given outdated coins at a bank when I was in Paris, France. I found out when I tried to spend them in a cafe.... nice woman told me to put them in the donation box at the Cathedral because they would be accepted and exchanged for legit when the Church deposited them.
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Post by divtal on Jul 21, 2020 21:31:06 GMT
I once had a $10.00 bill that was terribly limp and faded. My initial thought was that it had been washed, in a load of clothes that had bleach added. After a few merchants wouldn't accept it, I took it to the bank to check it out.
The teller held it to the light, and ran one of those special "markers," across it. He told me that he didn't think that it was counterfeit, but he took the matter seriously. I had to fill out a form ... no surprise there. And, it was all sent to the U.S. Treasure, in D.C..
I was told that, if the bill was counterfeit, $10.00 would be charged to my account. A subsequent letter from the Treasure Department, confirmed that it wasn't counterfeit, and I still assume that the wash/bleach scenario was the most likely.
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Post by autumn on Jul 21, 2020 22:43:01 GMT
I once had a $10.00 bill that was terribly limp and faded. My initial thought was that it had been washed, in a load of clothes that had bleach added. After a few merchants wouldn't accept it, I took it to the bank to check it out. The teller held it to the light, and ran one of those special "markers," across it. He told me that he didn't think that it was counterfeit, but he took the matter seriously. I had to fill out a form ... no surprise there. And, it was all sent to the U.S. Treasure, in D.C.. I was told that, if the bill was counterfeit, $10.00 would be charged to my account. A subsequent letter from the Treasure Department, confirmed that it wasn't counterfeit, and I still assume that the wash/bleach scenario was the most likely. What sucks about that is that if the bill was counterfeit, that they'd want to deduct the $10 from your account as if you had a machine in your basement and intentionally made these $10 bills and then went to the trouble of bringing them to the bank and bringing it to their attention (which is what most counterfeiters do, right?) Wouldn't most people end up with them purely accidentally? By chance? Through no fault of their own? Isn't "intent" taken into account somewhere along the line? Oh, and my answer is: dunno. |
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Post by politicidal on Jul 29, 2020 18:49:24 GMT
![]() This is what they paid me after making a delivery to some factory.
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Post by moonchild on Jul 29, 2020 20:44:16 GMT
I would get them sometimes at work and I would just call a manager
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Post by autumn on Jul 29, 2020 22:07:11 GMT
But I still wonder how they get into circulation, and what about the innocent people who just end up getting them handed to them as change when they're making a legitimate purchase elsewhere? Why are they punished for a fake fin when it wasn't even their fault? Someone somewhere way down the line obviously was laundering it, sure.
But if I'm doing my groceries, and the cashier hands me change, and I use that to pay someone else, and go to break a bill and find out THAT bill is counterfeit, how the heck is that suddenly my LEGAL problem and my FINANCIAL problem when I'm minding my own dang business?
There's got to be some type of safeguards set up in place for the innocent victims, right? Right? Especially if it isn't like they've got a few grand on them of fake bills?
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Post by theauxphou on Jul 30, 2020 7:22:20 GMT
I haven’t even seen any AUD fakes let alone U.S. ones.
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Post by mecano04 on Jul 30, 2020 18:43:15 GMT
I do have a fake Canadian 20 dollar bills. A friend gave it to me, to add to my collection to display what real ones are and fake ones. He did tell me how he got it but I didn't pursue to get more.
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