Pisses me off when cashiers look at my money like it's fake. If I could counterfeit I sure as hell

[Floyd R. Turbo]

wouldn’t be eating at McDonald’s!

[PoliticAverse]

1. Next time use these...

[Paladin]

2. A clerk at a cigar store eyeballed a $20 bill I gave her. For way too long.

I found a new place to buy my smokes.

[katmondoo]

3. The cashier is responsible if money is fake, to protect her job she checks

[mercuryblues]

4. In the US

the 20 dollar bill is the most counterfeited. So yeah they check.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I had a guy at a bookstore refuse my "new" 20 once when the currency was redesigned.

A Sunday morning and he was working alone. I gave him an old bill and he took it.

I have had people try to pass counterfeit bills to me. Once a fellow gave me 1600 dollars (in a bank envelope) for a used car, and it was definitely fake. Looked real, but felt too heavy. He left in a hurry. I called cops but never heard any more about it.

[kozar]

6. What we do,

the seller marks our bill with the magic marker and gives us change.
We ask for the marker and check their change,,you dont trust me,, we dont trust you,,,

Love the look on their face

Koz

[Stuart G]

7. You are not alone..I have thought about counterfeiting often....but knowing me,,,

I would get caught right away...

[onethatcares]

8. was visiting Arkansas and

some guy was trying to pass $100.00 bills that were blue in color. The guy got lucky at one convenience store before he was arrested. Same serial numbers too.

[FSogol]

9. That's exactly how a counterfeiter would act.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Happened to me today in Seattle

At Dick's hamburgers. After the cashier checked out my $20 by holding it against the light and scrutinising it, I did the same with every single $1 I got back in change. It seemed to annoy everybody involved, which is all I wanted.

[Kaleva]

11. It took ten years for the Secret Service to catch Mister 880

"But this is a tale of a counterfeiting investigation that went against that norm, as it unfolded with anything but clockwork precision. This one case bedeviled the Service for a decade and came to a close only through a series of fortuitous events rather than via dogged and effective police work.

In New York City in 1938, very poorly executed counterfeits of dollar bills began appearing in that city’s money supply. Turning up at a rate of no more than forty or fifty a month, these bogus bucks were produced on a small hand-driven printing press from a set of plates that could best be described as abysmally crude. And, as crude as they were, they got worse in subsequent editions as their maker sought to improve his product. One of the overhauls of his plates rendered the spelling of the surname of George Washington (whose portrait appears on the one dollar bill) as “Wahsington.”"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mister-880/

An inept counterfeiter of $1 bills, Emerich Juettner was sentenced to a year and a day, eligible for parole after 4 months, and a fine of $1.

[Flaleftist]

12. I wouldn't trust anyone who eats at McDonald's either.

Donald Trump eats McDonald's.

[Xolodno]

13. Many moons ago...worked at a bank...

We were always being brought up to the latest "bill security" features. And if a counterfeit bill did get past, it was never held against anyone. Because chances were, it defeated the latest security.

But at your McD's, local market, etc. They are lower paid and don't get such training, so they often get dinged for that happening. Most of them probably check anything $20 and above...but pass over anything less, which makes them the perfect simple and easy currency to counterfeit...but also less feasible to reaping any rewards. Local market I go to has several 10 dollar and a few 5's posted as fake. Some are quite impressive..some others..yeah, the cashier wasn't paying attention.

[RLC1]

14. Not sure I would take it personally.

Not sure I would take it personally. Some of the cashier training is mindless. But yeah, make ones and fives. Don't get greedy and probably no one will find out!

[retread]

15. What is "cash"? n/t

[DFW]

16. I once had a cashier screaming at me for trying to pass fake money off on her

It was about a year and half after Jean-Claude Trichet had replaced Wim Duisenberg as head of the European Central Bank, so a few hundred million banknotes with Trichet's signature were already in circulation.

We have a branch of a bio-health food chain in our town where we regularly used to shop. About fifteen years ago, I went in there, bought about €35 worth of stuff, and didn't have enough small bills to cover my purchase, and so paid with a €100 bill. The woman at the cashier started yelling about how I was trying to pass off a fake bill on her, and she was having none of it.

I said that detecting fake money was part of my job, and so wanted to know what was wrong with my €100 bill. She pointed to the signature (Trichet) and said there was no such signature. Furthermore, she then yelled, "I don't know where you get your paper money from." I.e. "you dirty foreigner, don't think you're going to get away with this here." I said "from the Belgian Central Bank," but looked for an older bill with Duisenberg's signature, and she accepted this.

On the other hand, I was absolutely furious. I walked down to the local police station and swore out a complaint (only time I have ever done that in my life). I also wrote to the head of the office of the health food store and complained about being treated like crap by a neo-Nazi cashier (I gave details). This was a Saturday, so the next Monday, I went to the local bank, got one of the sheets available to the general public with copies of all bills and signatures, and walked over to the health food store to hand it to the cashier. She commented that "the affair had been cleared up." I'll bet. However, I said "noch lange nicht (not by a long shot)."

Now, being in a health food store, I figure she was probably a Social Democrat or a Green, but that does NOT give her the right to start screaming at me in front of everyone else, indirectly calling me a dishonest foreigner, and accusing me of trying to pass counterfeit money. If a couple of complaints came down via both the cops and her employer, admonishing her for acting like a right-wing extremist insulting a customer, well, she WAS. If you're going to work in retail, and the signatures on the local paper money changed EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, then it's your responsibility to know that before you accuse people of importing counterfeit money to pass off on the unsuspecting locals.

[MicaelS]

17. Get some $2 bills and $1 coins and use them.

that really fucks up some cashiers.

[Aristus]

18. About twenty years ago, before I got into medicine, I was working as a bank teller.

A woman who owned a dry-cleaning business came in to make her deposit. I was counting out the bills, and felt one that seemed funny. It was a $50 bill; I checked it with the marker, and sure enough, it was printed on regular bond paper, not the special currency rag-paper.

I told her it was counterfeit and that I was required to confiscate the bill. She looked upset and wanted me to give her fifty dollars for it. I told her that reimbursement must come from the customer who passed it, whether or not he/she had been the one who printed it. I had a devil of a time trying to convince her that the bank didn't owe her anything for her lost fifty dollars.

The sad thing for her is that it was a pretty poor rendition of a $50 bill; or reall any kind of bill. She hadn't bothered to look closely at it. $50 is worth potentially offending a customer by checking the authenticity of the bill before accepting it and giving them their merchandise.

[Laffy Kat]

19. Many, many moons ago I was a teller.

If we let any counterfeit bills pass it counted against our teller's difference. Just because they look at the bill doesn't mean they don't trust you, it means somewhere down the line, someone you trust might have given it to you. Don't take it personally.

[dembotoz]

20. Saw on Facebook u can order a Harriet Tubman stamp

So u can update the currency portrait ahead of time....that should make the currency inspector pause

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I had a $20 bill returned to me recently when I bought gas

I regularly get gas there so the woman cashier knows me, but she followed me back to the parking lot and asked me if I could exchange the bill I'd given her - and she warned me to take it to the bank. When I looked at the photo, it looked much smaller, turns out it was from 1950 and missing all the bells and whistles they have now. It would sure be interesting to know where it's been since then, it didn't look worn at all. I later told the cashier what I'd discovered and she still insisted I should take it to the bank. She's pretty tough so I've tried to be friendly - turns out that was a good thing.

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. There was the Barney Miller episode where they caught a counterfeiter.....

And he had gotten way with it for years just making one dollar bills. He got caught because he decided to make a $5 note, but put Lincoln in a leisure suit!

[Steerpike]

23. if you are gonna use cash

in larger denominations it will be vetted...it's the 21st century...counterfeiting is a thing and the cashier eats it if they take a bad bill...so if you use cash suck it up...