Counterfeit Money

JoeyA

JoeyA

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As in non-U.S. Treasury printed money.

Have any of you ever gotten stuck with counterfeit money?

I had a twenty dollar bill that a guy gave me for payment on a bet and I looked at it and told him that it looked and felt phony and he quickly exchanged the twenty.

I look even harder at one hundred dollar bills but so far, so good.

Occasionally, I get asked if I have change for a hundred but always say no. Why don't they ask the bartender for change?

JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
As in non-U.S. Treasury printed money.

Have any of you ever gotten stuck with counterfeit money?

I had a twenty dollar bill that a guy gave me for payment on a bet and I looked at it and told him that it looked and felt phony and he quickly exchanged the twenty.

I look even harder at one hundred dollar bills but so far, so good.

Occasionally, I get asked if I have change for a hundred but always say no. Why don't they ask the bartender for change?

JoeyA
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I don't accept 100's unless they are brand spankin' new and I can see Franklin when I hold it up the light:

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DAVE_M said:
I don't accept 100's unless they are brand spankin' new and I can see Franklin when I hold it up the light:

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I always check for the fiber strip. Had some attempts to get paid on non-pool deals with fake money, never got caught holding any.

It is usually bored college kids who get caught up in a felony of boredom.
 
JoeyA said:
As in non-U.S. Treasury printed money.

Have any of you ever gotten stuck with counterfeit money?

I had a twenty dollar bill that a guy gave me for payment on a bet and I looked at it and told him that it looked and felt phony and he quickly exchanged the twenty.

I look even harder at one hundred dollar bills but so far, so good.

Occasionally, I get asked if I have change for a hundred but always say no. Why don't they ask the bartender for change?

JoeyA
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I got stuck with quite a bit one time. This is pool related by the way. It was during a Jansco (Yes, one of the Johnston city Jansco's). tournament and I believe it was Jansco who was in back of passing it. I am sure some on here know more details about it.
 
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I did working in a Friends shop once. we dealt with a lot of 50's and 100's. We had a Black Light bill checker that would show up the water spots.

A lady went out of her way to give it to me. She ruffled thru a lot of bills, just to find and hand it to me. Radar went off right away. I put it under the Black Light, and it looked like
someone had spattered the entire bill.

At the time, a Canadian 100, also had a Gold Seal on it. It was impossible to scrape off.

I checked it and found that the Seal scraped off just like a Scratch and Win Card would.

So, I scratched the majority of it off, just leaving enuff for another person to see.

Her eyes were bulging out of her head as she watched me as she knew that I just blew her chances of passing it off on anyone else.

She said to me, "I got this from the Bank".

I said, "well, you should just take it back to that bank and they will replace it for you".

"Have a Day of Nice, only not around me".

We have plastic money now. I am sure that someone, somewhere is working on it, but it will be pretty dern tough to come up with anything.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
I did working in a Friends shop once. we dealt with a lot of 50's and 100's. We had a Black Light bill checker that would show up the water spots.

A lady went out of her way to give it to me. She ruffled thru a lot of bills, just to find and hand it to me. Radar went off right away. I put it under the Black Light, and it looked like
someone had spattered the entire bill.

At the time, a Canadian 100, also had a Gold Seal on it. It was impossible to scrape off.

I checked it and found that the Seal scraped off just like a Scratch and Win Card would.

So, I scratched the majority of it off, just leaving enuff for another person to see.

Her eyes were bulging out of her head as she watched me as she knew that I just blew her chances of passing it off on anyone else.

She said to me, "I got this from the Bank".

I said, "well, you should just take it back to that bank and they will replace it for you".

"Have a Day of Nice, only not around me".

We have plastic money now. I am sure that someone, somewhere is working on it, but it will be pretty dern tough to come up with anything.
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In the USA the bank just stamps it counterfeit and takes it from you-what else could they do? guys would just be printing money to take to the bank.

Have we been through this before or am i deja vuing all over again?

Anyway i did get one from a POOL PLAYER of course. (we so deserve our rep) who mixed one in among the 6 he owe'd me. I wanted to slip it back to him somehow but he made himself scarce after that.
 
Luckily never got a counterfeit bill, but I do own the filthiest dollar bill in existence. Looks like a crackhead shit it into a pile of meth, then a meth freak ate it and shit it out into a strip club toilet. Maintenance guy fished it out and got a minute of love from the tranny stripper before tucking it under her nuts, and then she bought a candy bar with it. From there, I got it in change from the vendor, and for the past 2 years my friend and I trick each other into betting on random things to force it on each other. Last time I ended up with $1301... 13 brand new legal bills and the scourge of the currency world. Win some, lose some.
 
One of my printing suppliers unbeknownst to me at the time, printed up some money for a mafia guy in the Northeast. At first it was a small supply to see if it was "good enough". It passed their test and so they ordered a couple of pallet loads of the stuff $.15 on the dollar as I recall. They started passing it around up north and the U.S. Secret Service agents zoned in on the distribution area, caught the guys distributing it, who squealed on the mafia guy, who squealed on the printing guy. Printing guy only served about 7-10 years as I remember since it was his first offense and he gave up the plates and told them everything about how he made them. (That was his story to me) That was probably 20 years ago.

The government doesn't mess around with locating the printing facility and the printer.

JoeyA
 
We had a spate of them not so long back in this region of the UK. All £20 notes. I came across 1 that I actually got from the bank. Took it back in the next day and they took it from me, gave me another and sent me on my way. They were as good as a fake could be apart from the queens face when held upto the light. Normally it looks just like the queen but the fakes looked like the queen had been dragged around a race course by seabiscuit. Who ever made them needed to employ a better artist. A few friends said they received some from pool earnings but didn't know what to do with them. One ripped theirs up the others spent them in a dark night club.
 
A member of a family associated to me by a marriage got 25yrs or so for making his own money. He was doing 20s and would go to drive thru fast food spots and buy something cheap, for the change. He got pulled over and the po-po asked him why the bed of his truck was filled with food. 25 yrs...told me he had been at it for more than half that.
 
When standing in line with racks of chips at casino cage I never give chips for cash to those trying to avoid a line for this reason. I have wondered when gambling in pool halls but haven't noticed it...
 
Off to the races

I was playing a guy twenty dollar nine ball in Pasadena Ca. in the seventies. My friend, who was handling the money said, "Alfie, these twenties all have the same serial number. It was quite a stack in our hands and his. I just knocked him on out of the rest of them and visited Hollywood Park. Hence, the expression, "Easy come, easy go." I'm not particularly proud of my life outside the rules. That's just the way it was.
Keep it honest. Alfie
 
This should be moved to NPR.

Being the reserve currency for the world, I don't understand why I don't take a simple countermeasure adopted by the majority countries in the world of making different sized bills. The higher the value, the bigger the bill.

Changing the design of our currency every few years is a stop gap measure, and in the short run increase the opportunity to pass fake bills. Especially if you're not up to date on the designs.

15 years ago when scanner copiers came out, I scanned a 5 dollar bill. It was scary at arms length you couldn't tell it was fake when held next to a real one. The only giveaway was the paper. I promptly destroyed.
 
About a year ago I stopped at a gas station and got $200 out of an ATM. The $20 bills were uncirculated but were old and dated 1935,

I stopped at a mcdonalds for a Moca and gave the cashier one of those bills. She immediately called the manager and they looked at me like they were waiting for me to run out the door.

The manager was not old enough to have ever seen one of these old bills and would not accept it.

He gave me my Moca for free and said "have a nice day"

Lol

Kim
 
DallasHopps said:
Luckily never got a counterfeit bill, but I do own the filthiest dollar bill in existence. Looks like a crackhead shit it into a pile of meth, then a meth freak ate it and shit it out into a strip club toilet. Maintenance guy fished it out and got a minute of love from the tranny stripper before tucking it under her nuts, and then she bought a candy bar with it. From there, I got it in change from the vendor, and for the past 2 years my friend and I trick each other into betting on random things to force it on each other. Last time I ended up with $1301... 13 brand new legal bills and the scourge of the currency world. Win some, lose some.
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Ha ha ha ha...

Please tell me you entered the number here: http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
 
In the late 70's as im exiting a porn shop, there's a guy up by the counter says Hey man i need to get one of these movies can you gimme change for a 20. I gave him the tens, glanced at the bill, saw it was a phony, pretended not to notice and put it in my pocket amd walked out the door. There was a cop 20 ft up the road. I showed him the 20 and told him what happened. We go back in there iand the guy is standing up by the counter still doing nothing.

Anyway the cop says "you ask this guy for change of a twenty?" The guy doesn't even deny it.The cop tells the guy give him back the two tens and if you have one more of these twenties on you, you're going to jail and searched him. He didnt have anymore as im sure the deal was the guy behind the counter had them and would hand them one at a time to his partner when they saw a mark. There was no real evidence connecting the two of them so the guy behind the counter didnt get searched. This was Westies territory with Mickey Featherstone at the helm and you can bet your ass that is where they came from. The hookers in the area were hit with them relentlessly.
 
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JoeyA said:
One of my printing suppliers unbeknownst to me at the time, printed up some money for a mafia guy in the Northeast. At first it was a small supply to see if it was "good enough". It passed their test and so they ordered a couple of pallet loads of the stuff $.15 on the dollar as I recall. They started passing it around up north and the U.S. Secret Service agents zoned in on the distribution area, caught the guys distributing it, who squealed on the mafia guy, who squealed on the printing guy. Printing guy only served about 7-10 years as I remember since it was his first offense and he gave up the plates and told them everything about how he made them. (That was his story to me) That was probably 20 years ago.

The government doesn't mess around with locating the printing facility and the printer.

JoeyA
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They should spend a little of that tax payer money on finding Mike Surber's killer.
 
Scanner money

One of the dumber things somebody did, I once got three counterfeit one dollar bills! I mean if you are going to counterfeit . . . It happened in the big metropolis of Gonzales LA. They looked good, had consecutive serial numbers, and the same squiggly wrinkle line up in the top right corner of what should have been the margin. Since the money is printed in huge sheets, no way consecutive bills could have the same wrinkle shadow marking. The fed's indeed have no sense of humor about such things and would have burned somebody down for printing those.

Back in about 1970 I was busy out front at a service station, remember those? I got a twenty that registered as looking a little funny but it wasn't until I took time to look at it after the rush that I saw what the deal was. A 1920 gold certificate, as good as gold, literally!

Hu
 
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