22 replies to this topic

[Kyle]

We were looking at fake bills today at work, and I was curious if anyone had ever actually had someone try to pass a fake bill on you.

[Jxo]

nah but i fooled a pharmacist here in mexico, gave him a fake dollar, he never suspected

[Hawk]

No, but my friends have gotten a Pepsi machine to take a fake bill, lol!

[Rikku]

the shop i go to for all of my diving stuff like BCD's and regulators and to get my taks filled had a guy pay them intirely in $100 bills about an hour before i came... and they were all fake.. so they had to clal the cops and evrerything... and they said that the marker things didn't work on it... but the only way to tell the diffrence was by touch, they said it felt very diffrent then normal $100 dollar bill

[ShadowLink64]

Canadian bills have too many security features on them now, so it would be very very difficult to make counterfeit currency here... so never had one passed on me. New Zealand's is even harder since there's a transparent section on the bills.

[ShadowLink64]

You here they're introducing a 5 dollar coin to replace the bill? A friend of mine told me about it.. but I don't see anything about it anywhere. Any idea?

I haven't heard anything about that. I'll do some research and see if I come up with anything.

[DudeOnline]

ive never heard anything about the 5 buck coin

[pyke]

nah but i fooled a pharmacist here in mexico, gave him a fake dollar, he never suspected

You're so typical

I probably have fake bills given to me all the time. Oh well, less money for the dollarama to make (evil company that it is)

[Melchoire]

Canadian bills have too many security features on them now, so it would be very very difficult to make counterfeit currency here... so never had one passed on me. New Zealand's is even harder since there's a transparent section on the bills.

Ya some guys at school sell 50's for $20 but they hardly ever work. But damn transparent bills that so cool

You here they're introducing a 5 dollar coin to replace the bill? A friend of mine told me about it.. but I don't see anything about it anywhere. Any idea?

That would be interesting is it because there aren't many anti-counterfeit features on the bill?

[Rikku]

Ya some guys at school sell 50's for $20 but they hardly ever work. But damn transparent bills that so cool
That would be interesting is it because there aren't many anti-counterfeit features on the bill?

what kind of ani counterfit precautions will be taken if the coin is realeased??? if anything they would be easier to make..

[Melchoire]

what kind of ani counterfit precautions will be taken if the coin is realeased??? if anything they would be easier to make..

No, I mean our $5 bill doesn't really have any good anit-counterfeiting features. But all the other ones are really secure.

[Stephen]

Canadian bills have too many security features on them now, so it would be very very difficult to make counterfeit currency here... so never had one passed on me. New Zealand's is even harder since there's a transparent section on the bills.

Same with Australian Money.

[joe malki]

Someone tried to give me a 100 dollar bill for 6 dollars worth of stuff, so I got that marker thingy and swiped the 100 and also looked up in the light with it and I could see it was fake. Cops kept the guy in jail for like 5 days or something. idk

[Stephen]

Isn't the Australian and New Zealand currency waterproof? (Like the notes?)

Yep. I think so. They're plastic.

[Christopher Robin]

Looks like a no.

Bah... I wouldn't mind a 5$ coin

[Charmender]

Most currency should be waterproof, i know the British notes are as i've washed tons of money over the years

[Bryan]

Americans aren't advanced enough to use waterproof bills. It's amazing how many slightly green wads of paper I have in my pockets :'(

[lookie1st]

I used to work for a bank when I was younger. We got training in how to detect fake money. The currency you encounter most being fake is actually the $20,- bill. If you touch money all day long, you will feel it when one is just not right, but it doesn't always mean it's fake. For example if you leave your money in your pocket and wash it, it will also have that fake feel.
The things we had to do if a bill was suspected fake, feel it, smell it, use marker and hold it under a special light. Most people that gave us fake money, had no clue it was fake.

Personally I love the Euro's, they look great and have some very good safety features. (Only thing that sucks with countries that use the Euro is the amount of coins you get in your wallet, imo)

[Big Joe]

I got jipped 250 dollars off of paypal! The money was counterfiet for some reason. I sold a guy my level 126 in runescape.. LOL. But then I get fake money...

[nox]

i've always been interested in doing the tape&washing machine trick, but just never bothered.

also, you be arrested&charged if they catch you but have no proof you had any idea/knew? cant imagine they'd do that..

[KeithM]

I've never gotten a fake bill before (that I know of).

When I worked in an insurance agency office many years ago, and the redesign of the $20 bill came, apparently I was the only one in the office who knew about it. A couple of my co-workers were about to call the cops on a new customer who was paying with all $20 for their down payment. I said let me have a look since I had dealt with lots of money in my previous job (cashier/night manager in a grocery store).

When I saw it was the new $20, I said, "It's not fake, it's the new $20 the gov't has started distributing." At first non of my co-workers believed me - they thought I was kidding. I told em to call our agency's bank and ask about it. They did and they finally believed it. I think our rep at the bank laughed at em too.

Sometimes I hate being the only one in the know on things. LOL

[Tyler.]

Americans aren't advanced enough to use waterproof bills. It's amazing how many slightly green wads of paper I have in my pockets :'(

ROFL. But money's a thin cloth... it shouldn't be so bad you can't use it. (In the US)