I bought some stuff at the Ford swap meet in Bellville,MI last week. Found out today that the change back included a counterfeit $50. Be carefull! They are washing $5s and copying $50s over them on a scanner. Hold the bill up and look for the Presidents picture in the right. The bad ones have Lincoln's pictureon them.
Whoa! I can't believe a vendor would do that intentionally. Be to easy to track them down. I think the FBI would probably like to hear about this. A bank once gave me a counterfeit $100. Yes a bank, and it was Bank of America too. I never even looked at it, and tried to spend it about 15 min. later. The cashier looked at me, then swiped it with a pen. It turned brown or yellow, can't remember, but whatever color, it was the wrong one. I told them I just got it from my bank and showed them the withdrawl slip. I was in a suit and tie, so they just gave it back to me. I went to the bank and they exchanged it for me. I was freaking out the whole time though because the cashier said she is supposed to call the FBI.
Wife cashed a check at the local 5/3 bank. When she tried to pay for a item the clerk swiped it and it was counterfeit. They call the police and of course they didn't know what to do, so took it back to the bank and exchanged it. Now every time we go to the bank see says make sure it good. It make you wonder if the banks ever check.
Reminds me of the story...... Two cons sitting in a prison cell. One con says to the other, "Yeah, I was making big money. 1/4" too big."
i got one of them swopy pens from the grocry store my wife works at i check 5 and up got hit once a guy bought some stuff from me with all fivers and all of them where fake real hard to tell with out pen scanner/printers are so good now. it think the washed 5s even fool the pen because the paper is legit money.
Great !, A guy paid me 1,500.00 for a mod A all in 50's,....... I better get them checked. thanks for the "heads up" ,.......I think.
I was told about the $50-over-$5s down here in Atlanta, too. The bank teller in our little town told my wife it's cropping up as a problem. Considering we run a swap meet once a month, and typically take in $20s, $50s and $100s... I always thought the Secret Service handled funny money complaints. -Brad
Butch, give me as much info as you can about the vendor. I'm pretty good friends with alot of the Ford-Mercury Restorers club guys that put on that event and with enough info they might be able to figure out who you got that from.
I'll be damned. I 've heard about crap like that on TV, but never heard of a firsthand report. I saw a crazy looking lady on Sunset try to pass a bogus $100 bill at a restaurant once. Walked in and just asked for change, wearing sunglasses and a trenchcoat at like midnight. The cops hauled her guilty ass off. A friend of mine got a bogus $1 bill, yes ONE dollar bill, at the rose bowl swapmeet one time. He kept it just cuz it was kinda neat, but the paper was all wrong. Yeah I'm sure with a bogus 50 like that, the pen will say it's OK since the paper is real. Sorry to hear that man thanks for the warning. I expect that stuff in LA, but not in the midwest. Ask me why we don't have those self-scanning thingies at supermarkets here (well, a few in some good neighborhoods hehe)
Yes, I think that's right. They handle bank fraud issues and alike. However, try reporting something to the Secret Service. According to my wife (who is in the financial biz), the FBI is usually the first to collect the info., but even local police can take the complaint. My incident happened in downtown Seattle literally a block away from the Seattle FBI office.
Well I just checked the ones I still have ( that wasen't deposited ),... every one had a little picture of good old U.S. Grant when I held it up to the light,... Did they say where the vendor was set up or what they were selling?, what did they buy ?
I know it's alittle off topic but I bought a wire welder from a guy there that claimed he hadn't ran a full roll through & it worked good...well I should of looked @ it better I get home ready to do some welding & the wire wouldn't feed! The cable had a bad pinch in it & won't let the wire through.Wish I paid him w/some fake $$ Bob
I don't know if this is relitive or not but when I went to the bank Friday to cash my check and get some money back the teller said she didin't have any 50's. I thought that was kinda strange.
Denise: It was a spot toward the East of the swap meet. Second row from the last one and just North of the middle of the row. I bought Radius Rods from him. Very early! But again He may have gotten it somewhere else?? Butch
Three years ago I cashed a check at a local bank here in Oshkosh. They gave me 6 counterfeit 20's in the lot. I paid a friend with some of the money and he passed them somewhere, that was when we found out they were fake. The cops questioned me like I was a crook, wonder if they treated the bank like they did me? I was pretty upset that a bank was not checking their inventory!
your lucky a friend and I cashed our checks and crossed the street to a lunch counter. He got bagged with a bad 50 and we went straight back to the bank to the same teller, fact is we never left her sight told her it was bad and it had the bank marking on it from counting or something.She checks it with a pen and says" your right I can't give this back!"thing is she also refused to replace it!manager also refused to do anything!Now my friend did do something he told her to close all his acounts there and he transfered about 25,000 to a different bank
I've seen one of the 50's, and to tell the truth, it looks kinda funny, kinda fuzzy-like. Plus it felt wrong, like it was too soft (the bleaching process, I'd bet.). And, yes, it had Lincoln's watermark. The pens do NOT work on these, you have to use other methods of checking, too. COsmo
Another thing to be aware of, is that older bills were printed on a different type of paper. The pens don't work on them, they mark as if they are fake.
I cashed my paycheck at a 5th 3rd bank in cincinnati about 30 yrs ago. went to the grocery store and one of the 20's was fake. cops came took the 20 and I was out 20 bucks. the bank said they didn't give it to me. I changed banks
FWIW one of the new counterfeiter tricks is to pass fake money at yard sales and swap meets. Most people who handle a lot of money every day like bank tellers can feel a difference, so the crooks take their fake $ to people having yard sales and stuff like that. That has been going on in this town for the last few years, also the washed out and printed over 5's are getting big around here.
I don't know anything about this fake money stuff, but while I was at the Belleville swap I picked up a fiberglass kit to make my VW look like a Rolls Royce. I guess there was a whole lot of faking going on last weekend. You think I'm kidding about the Rolls. Boy oh boy.
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