Have you ever been the victim of counterfeit money or products?

[Semple]

The people who refuse to use banks and technology mainly. The ones who don't trust the system.

Or more likely the ones dodging tax.

 

[n111ck]

What sorta plebs use bank notes and coins these days anyway

Drug dealers and money launderers

 

[Feek]

What sorta plebs use bank notes and coins these days anyway

My local bakers. I don't go in there very often these days because we bake our own bread now. I last went in during semi-lockdown when they were only allowing one person in at a time and I commented then that I was surprised they hadn't started taking cards. They said that Covid meant they were going to get it set up.

I walked past on Saturday and they still have a sign up outside saying Cash Only.

Crazy.

 

[GGizmo]

A friend was selling counterfeit jackets for a small amount of money. I bought one. Best jacket I'd had for years.

 

[mid_gen]

I bought a Bell & Ross watch for £20 in a market in Shenzen and it turned out to be a fake

I've had quite a few fake pounds coins, back in the distant past when I used to use cash. I just spent em, no-one notices.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've got done a couple of times but nothing major.

Bought a couple of Disney DVDs from eBay (Aladdin and Mulan) back in the mid-2000s and they turned out to be fakes.

Also, I got handed a 100 Spanish peseta (worth 40p) instead of £1 as change. The 100 Spanish peseta looks very much like a £1 coin so I only noticed it a couple of days later and could only make guesses on which shop short-changed me. This was back in year 2000 when the single €uropean currency was getting rolled out.

However I'm surprised they can photocopy it, I thought there was software in a scanner that stops it.
I know I can't copy notes on my printer and the works very expensive printer.

I didn't know that scanning software could suss out notes and prevent acquiring. A mate of mine showed me a print-out of a £20 note (just as a joke) that he copied from a real note.

 

[tom_e]

I didn't know that scanning software could suss out notes and prevent acquiring. A mate of mine showed me a print-out of a £20 note (just as a joke) that he copied from a real note.

Try taking a picture of one with your phone, I'm pretty sure it'll refuse as well.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Try taking a picture of one with your phone, I'm pretty sure it'll refuse as well.

Hmm, I started this so just tried my Epson and Samsung S21 with £5 and they both scanned!!!
I know I've tried in the past and it didn't work !!!