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I was just reading another thread. It seems people love getting cash or using cash. I don't, because I've received a lot of counterfeit money. I've received both cash and counterfeit money. One time, I even received counterfeit bills from a bank. Have you ever received counterfeit money?
I've never had knowingly had counterfeit monies and it's not currently enough of a problem for me to worry about it. It does suck if you are hit with it because you own the loss
I've never had knowingly had counterfeit monies and it's not currently enough of a problem for me to worry about it. It does suck if you are hit with it because you own the loss
It is the worst part. I kept getting counterfeit money (bills and coins) from a store by where I used to live. I noticed my neighbors saying the same thing. We couldn't prove the store was a part of it/making it, the authorities don't care. They're too busy looking for the people making it. How are you going to find them when you ignore the hotspots for dumping it?
I've only been given a counterfeit bill once in my entire life and it wasn't even a good one. A really fake $20 bill and the paper didn't even feel real. I was at a bar in Phoenix a few years ago and I am convinced that the bar was being used to get rid of counterfeit bills since I got it as part of my change after 1am, the lighting was not very good in the bar and I was wasted. I'm guessing they only got rid of them to customers that were hammered since I didn't notice it with my change. I pulled it out of my jeans the next day in good lighting and actually looked at it and it was not even close to being a real bill.
I saved it and threw it on the stage at a strip bar a couple of weeks later and it landed on top of a pile of $1 and $5 bills. The stripper 'Autumn' let me pull the string off her thong went she saw it and then bent over in front of me. So in the end, it was money well spent. I'm sure the next day she looked at it and was probably like WTF?
A couple of weeks ago, some guy dropped a twenty. I called out to let him know he dropped his money. He declined and said that it was counterfeit. It looked authentic until you felt how scratchy the paper was.
When I was a little kid I found a lead ball about the size of a marble on the sidewalk and began throwing it up in the air and catching it. I noticed it got flattened on one side when it hit the concrete so I took it home and started mashing it with a hammer and saw that it was the same size as a penny. I then went to the gas station and put it in their gumball machine and turned the handle, it worked. That was the end of my counterfeiting career, only because I had no more lead balls.
I'm generally cash only and fortunately have never gotten a counterfeit bill--most of the stores around here use the highlighter to check bills.
But I'm a lifelong coin collector and I'm saddened by the huge volume of counterfeit American collector coins being made in China and shipped here to rip off collectors.
I've had a 5 dollar bill passed to me that was counterfeit. Pissed me off but fortunately that's the only case I know of.
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Originally Posted by smommaof3
It is the worst part. I kept getting counterfeit money (bills and coins) from a store by where I used to live. I noticed my neighbors saying the same thing. We couldn't prove the store was a part of it/making it, the authorities don't care. They're too busy looking for the people making it. How are you going to find them when you ignore the hotspots for dumping it?
I would have gathered the neighbors and discussed it with the store owner. It is in their best interest to make an effort to stop the flow of counterfeit money; or else they risk people not shopping there. You as a group have identified your source; the store. Its time for the store to identify their source; and so on.
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