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Got A Counterfeit At The Bank
This morning I went to the bank and made the weekly withdrawl. One of the $100's just didn't quite look right the ink was a bit off. I looked at it up against the overhead light, and sure enough, it was Abraham Lincoln's watermark, not Ben Franklin's. Someone had apparently bleached a $5 and printed the $100 over it. The crazy thing was handing it back to the teller and telling her it was a counterfeit, she did not believe me and used the counterfeit detector pen on it. Of course it appeared authentic according to the detector pen, because the paper was real. I had her look at the watermark, and sure enough she verified she saw Lincoln too. The pen thing would have thrown her, because this was a bleached $5 bill that was used, so the paper was good, but not for a $100 bill. If it had been up to a $20 I would have kept it as a curiousity, but a $100 is a bit much to swallow. I subsequently found out that there have been a rash of them circulating in our area lately. The teller had purchased it from another teller earlier whom had taken it in from a deposit. Somebody was not careful when they took in money today. I have always thought counterfeits were something I woudl never find - surprise! |
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