Joe speaks out

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(05-31-2020, 12:20 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Good point. Didn’t even think about this possibility. I’m not even sure I would realize if I had received counterfeit money because I rarely even look at it that closely.

And a lot of it is really good.  I found several in my restaurant days, as there are markers you can use to verify them.  And that generally only happens for big bills.  I don't think that any of the people that passed them off to me had any responsibility.  Generally people were pretty distraught by it because they are then out 20, 50, or 100 dollars.  And it was usually people who got paid in jobs like construction where you can get paid in cash that it happens to.  A few of the people it happened to would ask me to check all of the cash they had, as they were then worried about if the rest of their money was no good.  Smaller bills are almost never checked, which is why those denominations are counterfeighted more than bigger bills.  I know we had plenty of those come through, because the bank would call whenever any were found in a deposit.