Having worked as a bank teller in my early days and in the money room at a couple of large race tracks (Gulfstream) I've seen pretty much everything. I used to be able to spot or feel one a mile away. It was easier way back when, alot of giveaways like the little "pen marks" in the paper.
One really good trick that got by once in awhile was not a counterfeit, per se, but I've seen a $2 bill with the corners pasted over with $100's. 2's were pretty uncommon and they got by. The 4 100's were still very useable as only one corner on each had to be cut off.
I remember one in particular because the head money room man went absolutely berserk as he had to eat the $98 .See, if the money room clerk caught it coming in, you could charge the particular line clerk for it. But if you miss it coming in it will go into the general pile of cash that came in and no way to charge it back to anyone. Well, there is a way(s) but that's for another day/story.
When I was a bank teller, it was a lotta fun to catch a counterfeit coming in as the rules were different. At the track, you did whatever with it, usually just sent it out again to a cashier who gave it out to the public, no harm, no foul. But, at the bank, by rule you got to confiscate it and send it in to the Fed.....without reimbursing whomever brought it in. Lotta fun when a prick customer got caught with one and would lose it. Really tons of fun.
One really good trick that got by once in awhile was not a counterfeit, per se, but I've seen a $2 bill with the corners pasted over with $100's. 2's were pretty uncommon and they got by. The 4 100's were still very useable as only one corner on each had to be cut off.
I remember one in particular because the head money room man went absolutely berserk as he had to eat the $98 .See, if the money room clerk caught it coming in, you could charge the particular line clerk for it. But if you miss it coming in it will go into the general pile of cash that came in and no way to charge it back to anyone. Well, there is a way(s) but that's for another day/story.
When I was a bank teller, it was a lotta fun to catch a counterfeit coming in as the rules were different. At the track, you did whatever with it, usually just sent it out again to a cashier who gave it out to the public, no harm, no foul. But, at the bank, by rule you got to confiscate it and send it in to the Fed.....without reimbursing whomever brought it in. Lotta fun when a prick customer got caught with one and would lose it. Really tons of fun.
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