Shipped some stuff Friday afternoon and got a phony $10 bill. From the danged ol' USPS, of all places. Went back Monday AM with my receipt. Lady (she has always been a b.): hey, how do I know you got it here? Me: why else would I walk into the post office waving counterfeit money around? Her: how do you even know it is phony? Me: okay, wanna trade me one of those $10s in your cash drawer for mine? Her: uh, uh... And the topper: Her: Why don't you just go to Publix and buy something with it?
I got three fake 20s from Wal Mart a few months ago. Worst part was I paid a friend for a parts car and his wife got rejected at the Kroger gas pump with them. Wallyworld exchanged them for me after asking a few questions about which day, what register (I got cash back from a purchase in the electronics department). Patrick
I got a 20 from 1951 once. I was showing my hockey team it when we were drinking at the bar after a game. One guy was a cop. He laughed and told me it was fake. Evidently the older bills are easier to pass off since most folks forget what they look like.
All you gota do is scratch your thunb nail on any bills colar.you no the colared shirt every head on every bill is wearing. It should feel like a vinal record to your thumbnail
A lot of stores around here use a pen looking device that scans the bill. Pretty cool tech, not sure how it works.
And I collect fakes...and pay accordingly for them too. I bought a fake $100 for $2 a couple of years ago, it's a good fake too. I've also got a couple of fake $1 "Loonie" coins too; the RCMP initially thought it was an inside job done at the plant I work at, (we made all of the blanks) but they soon found out it was actually a machinist in Calgary who was making them. Reasonably good passable copies too; enough to fool a bank.
Hey if you collect them, I'll send it to you, assuming I am not somehow committing a felony. Plus you should never mail cash.
Ok; I'll bite; being that I'm Canadian and don't know a lot about American notes, what gives this one away as a fake? The devices look like they line up, it doesn't look like a re-purposed $1 or a $5, what am I not seeing?
I am holding it to the light because: 1) There should be a vertical security thread to the right of hamilton's head. 2) There should be a hidden image of hamilton in the blank area on the right. Other than that, no raised / rough printing (as noted by previous poster), and the whole thing is just a little blurrier than it ought to be. Finally, the paper just doesn't feel right.
Invest in a 10X eye loupe. On US currency theres micro printing all over it; usually borders on the ovals surround the the notes "head shot". It'll read UNITED STATES of AMERICA in REVERSE. Very hard to duplicate without the paper soaking up the ink. Also the silk threads in the paper unless ultra high quality currency paper was used. FWIW, that security thread can be pulled out with a sharp pair of tweezers; maybe used on a larger phony note? Just sayin'... ws https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...0i30k1j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1j0i24k1.0.94IxM5Lp3k4 https://www.google.com/search?q=cou....69i57j0l5.10488j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 See #3 below: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.123....0.ATWEXhNy1cQ
I feel like collecting fake currency would be setting one's self up for some sort of "possession of" charge??
Yeah, definitely not something I would even toy with. Especially shipping it. A kid in high school copied a $1 bill on the school's then new scanner as a joke and got into all kinds of trouble before they just dismissed it as being a stupid kid.
I don't use cash. I got $10 back at the grocery store yesterday. I have no idea where I put it? Maybe it's clean now?
True on all accounts, it's never a good idea to have fake currency. Technically in almost all countries possession is illegal. Yes, there are serious numismatists (coin collectors) who collect them and use them for educational purposes. Thanks for educating me on what to look for on American notes, we do see a few of them up here, and I think I've had a couple of bad hundreds after I sold a camera lens years ago. Luckily I was able to get rid of them. Possession of fake US currency is not illegal up here since technically it isn't legal tender. But, and it's a big "but", if you get caught trying to pass fakes of any currency off in exchange for Canadian currency then it becomes illegal. The bigger problem is fake collector or old coins, the market for them is huge and most are being made in China. If you come across a deal for silver coins that sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
