PSA: Counterfeit $100 bill scams on the rise

[cribbit]

These are getting more common. Just had someone try it on me for the third time this year and I don't even sell much.

The scam usually revolves around getting change after buying a small item, but can happen on larger items as well.

If a $100 bill doesn't have the plastic/holographic blue line - the most modern design - it is quite often a fake.

They can make some very convincing fakes of the older bills. Be careful!

[ntb1001]

With all of the contactless payment now everywhere, I’m surprised that there an increase in counterfeit money.


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[TronnyJenkins]

Originally Posted by ntb1001

With all of the contactless payment now everywhere, I’m surprised that there an increase in counterfeit money.


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Theory- maybe because of so much digital payment, some become less familiar with the genuine article.

[TunaAndBikes]

Haven't seen a 50,100$ bill in years personally

[fiamme red]

I'm disappointed. Seeing this in Classifieds, I assumed it would be a PSA for where to get counterfeit $100 bills.

[duff_duffy]

Be on the lookout for fraudulent charges on cards too. Apparantly I just bought an iPad air for someone in Californua and Christmas tree. Credit card company indicated stolen credit card info on the rise.

[ntb1001]

Originally Posted by TunaAndBikes

Haven't seen a 50,100$ bill in years personally

Funny...I have 20 $100 bills in my wallet right now from selling a bike the other day...now I’m nervous!!



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[Ken Robb]

Are we talking about USA, Canadian bills or both?

[ntb1001]

Originally Posted by duff_duffy

Be on the lookout for fraudulent charges on cards too. Apparantly I just bought an iPad air for someone in Californua and Christmas tree. Credit card company indicated stolen credit card info on the rise.

I actually had my card compromised 2 weeks ago...online charges.


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[parris]

We had one of our cards get hacked this past spring. The credit card company called us and left a message. I don't trust any kind of message left from card companies etc so I called the CS number on the back of my card. It turned out that someone in the middle of the country was trying to buy about 2k worth of NASCAR stuff.

At work we take bail payments in cash or card. Last year we had someone come in to pay bail on a drug case. the bail amount was just shy of 40k and these people came with CASH! We had 3 different supervisors count, recount, and use the counterfit detection markers over the money. Shocker was that it was all legit and not 1 counterfit bill.

[zzy]

Originally Posted by Ken Robb

Are we talking about USA, Canadian bills or both?

Polymer CDN bills are impossible to counterfeit.

[Fixed]

100 is the new 20

[mktng]

Originally Posted by zzy

Polymer CDN bills are impossible to counterfeit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ct...1_5202841.html

[Peter P.]

I tried printing some $20 bills on my printer a couple years ago; no problem. I was stunned at the quality.

Why?

Tip: To protect against craigslist scams/robbery, etc. print copies of your bills prior to the meetup. Should something unkind happen, you'll have the S/Ns of the bills that the PD may be able to trace to the seller.

Recently I tried the same thing; the new printer recognizes them as dollar bills and refuses to copy them.

As to the $100 bill scams; they won't affect me- I don't carry such small bills.

[Veloo]

Use this trick to check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMGvTYDC5MA

Originally Posted by ntb1001

Funny...I have 20 $100 bills in my wallet right now from selling a bike the other day...now I’m nervous!!



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