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Originally posted by sdy:
The Amazon money says "Not Legal Tender" "For Motion Picture Use Only"

And I’d say it is the most common “counterfeit” forged instrument in circulation today. Most of it is manufactured in China. Shipped from China.

Good ole fashioned funny money has gone the way of the “nazi” meth cooking. It’s been outsourced overseas.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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using the pen

Which is not a good way to to it.

No shit? I've used the pen for FTF transactions that have larger sums of cash figuring it was a legit way to check.

The pen is only determining the presence of starch or not. If you bleached a real $5 and printed a $100 on top of it, the pen would not detect that. Same as if you applied the proper treatment to other papers.

What is much more difficult to fake are the other security features visible by holding the bill to the light.

At Home Depot, cash is handled in a room called the "vault." It's just a locked room inside another locked room, its not like a bank vault. With cameras all over the store, every checkout, etc., I'd be really surprised if there are none monitoring the vault.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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Pineda is accused of ordering counterfeit bills from Amazon,

Every time you turn around there's another story about Amazon being involved in something that hurts American businesses.

That’s a tough argument to make as a gun owner!

I was a teller the first 5+ years of my banking career. I used to get them by sight and feel all the time from the local merchants making their daily cash deposits. They would get upset when I told them I had to confiscate it and mail it to the local secret service office. They would also often ask to have it back but nope. As a bank employee we were obligated to take it. Had. A few incidents where people got close to violent when I told them their money was phoney.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Gpbst3, your friend is a jackass.

That’s one of those monumentally stupid things to do.

Almost as dumb as that Amazon listing, if it’s real.

I must also be a jackass. I’ll wear out a Canadian quarter trying to get a Pepsi machine to take it.

An experienced cash handler should be able to tell a fake bill by feel alone. That is where the counterfeiters get cheap. I've stopped my share up front when the customer hands it over and they always blame the last store they went to where they "broke a hundred."

Fakes started with 100's, then moved to 20's, then 5's, and I have handled a 1. A fake $1 bill. It was routine to send them to the bank separately to forward to the SS. More often than not the original circulators would hit more expensive retail locations and finally try to pass some at the auto parts level. Most of the time they went thru other customers hands - upscale vendors apparently teach getting rid of them in the change quickly, the only thing that made sense. Those stores also have high turnover.

Why, thank you Big Retail Mall Stores. Once again the cheesiest are the ones telling you they run a superlative establishment and prove it by screwing over the working man. rant off

As for the counteerfeits it was typically a customer we hadn't seen much before and after calling around to the others in the metro they had been there, too, a very typical profile for a fraudulent refunder returning stolen goods from another store just an hour later. And they always try to appear middle class office worker.

The tells add up after working a year retail. It all becomes so tiresome.

Don't y'all realize this counterfeit money was being made in Georgia... big factory was bleaching $1 bills and then reprinting them into $100 bills. but Jack Reacher took care of that...

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Don't y'all realize this counterfeit money was being made in Georgia... big factory was bleaching $1 bills and then reprinting them into $100 bills. but Jack Reacher took care of that...

In Margrave, Georgia.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by sdy:
The Amazon money says "Not Legal Tender" "For Motion Picture Use Only"

And I’d say it is the most common “counterfeit” forged instrument in circulation today. Most of it is manufactured in China. Shipped from China.

Good ole fashioned funny money has gone the way of the “nazi” meth cooking. It’s been outsourced overseas.

Years ago it was the Middle East.
Iraq/Iran had the "Super Hundreds" they tossed into circulation. I was detailed to the USSS for a while, they were saying it was really hard to spot a counterfeit $100.

Now it's the Chinese...

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they were saying it was really hard to spot a counterfeit $100.

Now it's the Chinese...

And not only do the Chinese make fake modern currency, but they also make fake collectible currency. Overall it's pretty convincing. Some of this stuff requires sophisticated equipment to analyze and detect.