fake money

[jackie131073]

I have been given a �20 that is fake by either cash-back at the supermarket or the cashpoint! What can I do about it?

[Ethel]

What you should do is hand it in to a police station.

This means you have lost �20. You cannot prove where you got it from.

But a busy bar on a Saturday night....

[Lingam]

Think hard about it and you will convince yourself that you got it from the supermarket. Go and confront them most strongly and you stand a slight chance of not being out of pocket. Good Luck!

[Iz66]

you have a chance of loosing it if going back to supermarket, there word against yours

I even got a load of fakes from a building society once...and that wasnt from a hole in the wall!!

Busy bar on a friday or sat night sounds excellent......its what i did!

[Mrs_Pegasus]

Chances are that it was cashback.

On one hand I think putting it back into circulation is wrong but after being ripped off in a similar circumstance I wish I hadnt taken it to the Police because they took it from me and I never heard another thing about it!

[Hammer]

Just spend it. Morally you are doing nothing wrong because money itself is just a piece of paper that represents value. You accepted it in good faith, therefore it was worth �20 to you at the time, so it has a real value to you. Or something.

It's only the scumbags who make them who are cheating the system, not those who innocently acquire them.

[Gevs1966]

Hammer, what a load of rubbish. If you know it to be fake and continue to go ahead and spend it you are breaking the law!

Just out of interest, how do you know it is fake?

[Hammer]

Whatever. I just don't see why you should lose out because the shop/bank broke the law by giving it to you in the first place.

[BUDDY HOLLY]

I was a Sub-Postmaster for 23yrs,we often used to get fake notes sent with our weekly cash, we just sent them back and got credit,We could spot a fake straight away, we would sometimes get people trying it on by saying that we had given it to them over our counter, in EVERY case this was not true, The post Office rule was this, if we took a fake note from someone we did not give them good money in return, the customer lost the money.

In this chain there is one winner and one loser, the winner is the scumbag who is printing them, the loser is the person who ends up with it wether it be the individual or the business man, in each case they all want to pass it on to someone else.

We also used to get lots of fake �1 coins, they were even easier to spot, usually made from gold painted lead.

[jason1980]

I would say that if you think about it even harder, you aren't really sure its fake and put it back in your purse accidentally until you are sure. Nearly everyone has an ice cream van, avon lady, neighbour who will swap 20 for two 10's, relative up the line who needs money in a birthday card, but it was accidental.