I am going to present a little, true, story about clerks/cashiers and counterfeit money.

[niyad]

Many, many years ago, when I was in Lake Tahoe, there was a counterfeit ring that started operating at one point. Casinos were always handy targets, because of the LARGE amounts of cash that flowed through them. Several stories ran in the papers about these counterfeit bills, including pictures of some of the bills. .in black and white, on newsprint. A few days later, there were follow-up stories. . .about the newspaper pictures of those bills showing up in cash registers in the area. People just shook their heads.

A number of years later, in Reno, still another counterfeit ring hit those casinos. The cashiers I trained never got a counterfeit bill, because I had drilled them in what to look for, and how to generally have the counterfeiters avoid you. (no, mickey mouse is NOT on the $20, and Harrison Ford is NOT on the C-note!). Of course, I also trained them in the various scams that the scumbags try to pull on cashiers.

I am guessing that some things don't change very much. Are cashiers/clerks even trained in these basics these days? It would be interesting to see just how many people were affected by this little sleazoid's disgusting scam. May he reap all the consequences.

[3Hotdogs]

1. Are counterfeiters able to duplicate the plastic strip in large bills?

what can't they duplicate?

[GarColga]

2. I assume you're talking about John McEntee?

The video in question is one of hundreds of short clips he makes and posts on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. Their only purpose is to "own the libs". I doubt he ever gave any of those bills to a homeless person, and I doubt they were counterfeit. He says he uses "Hollywood money" which I took to mean bills that are plainly marked "For Motion Picture Use Only". He's just looking for reactions, which he makes money from. He posts from a multitude of pages and profiles and he is almost impossible to block.

[Silent Type]

3. Totally agree. People say a lot of disgusting crud.

[niyad]

4. I had never heard of this scumbag before, so I have no way of

knowing what he does or why. The fact that he thinks such a despicable action is brag-worthy, true or not, tells me someone needs to take a close look at him.

[aggiesal]

6. John McEntee started as a Pendejo45 body guard ...

He became the director of the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, a job he wasn't qualified for, then proceeded to purge officials viewed as unsupportive of pResident Pendejo45.

[LeftInTX]

11. Yes, he said he buys Hollywood money. Not counterfeit. It's clearly marked that it's fake.

You can buy it on Amazon.
The newest fad with Hollywood money is to put it in church offerings, to get back at clergy.


Hollywood money is not counterfeit. It's play money, but it tends to look more real because it's used in movies. However, it's clearly marked that it's fake. Anyone trying to pass one in a legit store would likely be told, "Sorry, but your money is fake". I doubt they would be arrested. Retail is too busy trying to deal with real shoplifters and store security.

[applegrove]

5. When I worked at a health food store we were

trained to rub the bill on a clean sheet of white paper. If the colored ink rubbed off onto the plain white sheet of paper, but it didn't smudge on the bill itself, it was real. Special ink. Special paper. And of course Canadian money varies in colour. Now there is see through plastic window in the bills. Impossible to replicate.

[NanaCat]

13. Today, you can hold any $5+ bill to UV light

A security thread will show up on the left side of the dead history dude, and the colour of the thread is different for each denomination. Hold it up to a bright light, and a watermark will show up. The new currency also has something called microprinting. It looks like a solid line, but it's actually a super-tiny line of text. The line will look less solid when you put the bill under a magnifying glass.

It's exceedingly difficult now to duplicate the new bills; counterfeiters instead rely on clerks too busy or too inexperienced to do the checks--the morning and afternoon convenience store rush, garage sales, mom-and-pop businesses, and etc.

My cousin runs an estate auction business that of course has a dedicated cash clientele, and he got burned hard once with counterfeit money. Since then, his till isn't a fancy traditional register or a low-tech metal lock box. Instead it's one of those currency counter machines that banks use to count stacks of money...and also to detect fake currency. The machine's detector bells out about once a year.

Always some wanker trying to rip people off.

[phylny]

7. They have special markers now to write

on bills that detect counterfeit ones.

[mopinko]

8. the thrift shops here use to pen on 20's.

[mopinko]

9. my sil worked in a bank. they taught her to count the presidents, not the numbers.

long time ago but ppl used to cut the corners off and switch them w fake numbers.
thieves can b clever animals.

[HAB911]

10. For reasons not mentioned

I recently began using cash for some large purchases, and invariably each bill is checked with a Counterfeit Bill Detector Pen

[Passages]

12. I frequent the Trader Joes market near me and I have noticed

the cashiers ring the bell calling over management. They look at the bill, hold it up, and make a decision, so it seems.

I rarely use cash and don't know what denomination the cashiers are instructed to get an opinion from management.

Maybe it starts at $50?

[Fla Dem]

14. I don't think the issue is stores accepting these phony bills, it's that he was giving them to the homeless.

Many homeless are mentally impaired or suffer from the effects of alcohol and or drugs. THEY may not be aware some "kind" stranger gave them a phony $5 bill and they will then try to use it in a store. Whether that store decides to call the police or not is up to them, but if it was a hungry person and they thought they were going to get a hamburger at McDonalds and then didn't, that's the crime. Raised their hope only to be dashed.

[niyad]

16. And part of my point was that it may not have quite the effect he intended.

[LeftInTX]

17. Yes, it's cruel and mean.

[onethatcares]

15. this thread goes to show

there's always a repuke trying to outcruel the last repuke.