What to be aware of regarding forged notes?

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What sort of things should you look for when checking to see if cash is 100% legitimate? Any checks one can do other the holding it up to the light to see if there's a line?
 
The silver strip down the side...it shud weave in and out of the paper, not just run straight down like someone has stuck the line on, rip in over the line slightly, ul see what i mean...
 
hologram, raised text, feel of the note are the first things i check.
Then if it's suspect i'll check the watermark and foiling check it isn't a light surface print.
After that you can check microlettering, print quality - compare it to another note which you know to be genuine.
If they handed you more than one of the same note, check the serial numbers are not the same.
And you also have the UV feature (with a 365 nanometre note checking light) although you must note the £50 note doesn't have this feature nor does it have a hologram but it will have extra foiling on the front with e red E-R and the foiling weaving on a £50 will be on the front instead of the back.

There are 21 security features on the new £20 note, but they reckon there are forgeries so good the only way to tell the difference between them and genuine is the foil breaks easily.

Why the interest though?
 
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the 'bank of england' should be raised. If you run your finger over it you'll feel what I mean.

You can also use a UV pen and write on the note. Fake ones show up as a different colour because they used a different type of paper.

You can also check the serial number. Fake ones tend to use the same number and on some bad fake ones the serial number will come off when rubbed.

The watermark is the easiest thing to check (apart from the sliver line running through the note).

Hope it helps.

;)

oh, just remebered, some fake notes are slightly different in size, so watch for that as well.

Just had a thought, maybe the OP is trying to fake some notes and we've all just told him how to do it!!! :o
 
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Watermark of the queen,
Silver strip should run down one side, weive in/out but only come out of the not on one side.
There is something else to look for but can't remember....
 
When i was working in tesco, i accepted every note i was given. I don't care not my company. One person once paid for a £300 shop all in £50 notes, didn't check a single one lol.
 
Just had a thought, maybe the OP is trying to fake some notes and we've all just told him how to do it!!!
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If he doesn't know the slightest about security features he won't have a clue how to forge them.
It is notoriously difficult to forge notes nowadays, a lot of printers and scanners will refuse to print/ scan money. Carding is the best kind of fraud to do as you can buy all the parts off the internet readily.

I don't really care about my company but I refuse to allow someone to commit fraud through my till. And I love saying to a customer "do I look like i was born yesterday" when they hand me photocopied vouchers or a fake note/ card.
 
On a £50, lick your finger and wet the little red/orange triangle at the bottom.

Then rub the triangle on clean white paper. A red smudge should come off onto the paper. If it doesn't, it's fake.
 
Back when I was working at Tesco before uni, some rather suspect character tried buying a chicken with a forged £20 note. It was so bad he was trying to prevent me from looking at it by trying to ask me daft questions like "Is that the price?" whilst shuffling about on his feet. I responded "No, that's the weight conversion. Look, the KG gives it away." and glanced down at the note to see the worst forgery of my life. He might aswell have tried to pay with monopoly money. The Queen's head was literally drawn on in pencil. I just burst out laughing and told him to do one. :p
 
blastman said:
tried a few have you??? ;)
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If u try fake notes in gambling machines, and then request ur money back, when u get the receipt u take to the counter in a bookies, they can question it as the machine alerts staff that someone has put cash in and took it straight out without player...i worked in a bookies for about a yr and constantly got dodgy lookin customers come up and the machine was flaggin an alert behind the counter...cant do much but ya know lol
 
A mate of mine used to scan and print money, possibly the least convincing forgery ever and yet still got away with it in pubs D:
 
I get around said:
If he doesn't know the slightest about security features he won't have a clue how to forge them.
It is notoriously difficult to forge notes nowadays, a lot of printers and scanners will refuse to print/ scan money.
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I was only messing around. :)

The fact he had asked the question on a public forum would (I hope) mean that he wasn't about to go into the fake note industry!!
 
GeForce said:
On a £50, lick your finger and wet the little red/orange triangle at the bottom.

Then rub the triangle on clean white paper. A red smudge should come off onto the paper. If it doesn't, it's fake.
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Where did you hear/get that from ? I have never ever heard of that - And I'd be more inclined to say the opposite. Fakes usually smudge a lot more easily.
 
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