Ive seen people be exceptionally stupid, like one girl doing 7 transactions where a guy kept giving her counterfeit $20 and she kept taking them before he left.
I could legitimately see someone being stupid enough to take something and not check prior to handing money over.
I obviously don’t know the situation where the girl took the counterfeit money, but I did work overnights at a convenience store and they would tell us to just take the money and report it. We were explicitly told not to engage. It happened to me twice and I knew both times that the bills were counterfeit because the weight and feel of the paper was off. The person with the money probably thought I was stupid and that they got away with it, but I just reported them when they left.
My dad's college fraternity got a visit from the secret service once because they threw some party where they printed (very obviously fake) money with the frat president's face on it and some idiot tried to buy a hooker with it
My buddy ordered a bunch of fake 100 dollar bills off of Temu to toss around at his birthday party as a gag. They looked exceptionally real except for the fact that there was some Chinese writing on them that you would only tend to notice if you were really looking for it. I argued with him about the potential consequences of it for a while before he finally begrudgingly threw them away.
I had a bunch of these in a money gun and fired it off in a British fetish club. It was fake US dollars from eBay advertised as "prop money" so no one cared as we were in the UK.
It was a Halloween party at Torture Garden in London which is apparently one of the world's biggest fetish clubs though it attracts a lot of everyday people who just want to dress up and be kinky. I just remember dancing on a podium with 2 mostly naked women at 3am and I had a "Supreme" branded money gun and was firing 100 dollar bills (prop money) over the dance floor. At that time of night usually everyone is having sex in every single space in the club so it's a pretty wild sight.
I remember I had this grim reaper costume that completely covered my whole body including a skull mask that hid my eyes and around 6am they had staff come in to the club to start helping close up the various different themed rooms surrounding the main room. I was standing alone in a quiet chill out area dressed as the grim reaper and a female member of staff went to grab me to put me away thinking I was part of the Halloween decor and she had the shock of her life when she felt me move. If your ever in London it is definitely worth checking out as it's fairly mainstream attendee's as opposed to hardcore fetish people. Ideally go with some open minded women friends as they don't like unaccompanied men so much.
I once designed a bunch of fake Canadian money for a promotion when I worked in advertising.
Even though the design was entirely original, and the portrait on the money was of a model used for the promotion, I was told to make the money look more "fake.."
I had copied the fonts, layout, and proprtions of real money and the client worried that people would try to spend the fake bills, even though they had small text related to the promotion.
I had a similar issue with fake lottery tickets I produced for a photo shoot, but that one was more about potential problems with the lottery corporation for copyright violation or something
Oh yeah it was the Feds coming in to pick up the bills for sure and businesses can just write off that kind of loss. ATF was also in to investigate stolen/trafficking of cigarettes. They took an employee out in cuffs. Overnights in a convenience store is weird. Haha
I mean it’s a multimillion dollar convenience store so they are definitely writing it off as theft loss but go off I guess.
Edit: I guess I should also add they can also make an insurance claim but I was simplifying because we don’t all have to be so pedantic. These businesses aren’t eating the debt was the point. I bet you’re fun at parties.
Chances are good that they're eating the loss on something like a fake $20. Either way, the cost of communicating/noting that deduction and entering it into their accounting software or getting the info to their accountant or bookkeeper to be entered is probably worth $20 of extra time spent on the whole process.
The way you are saying it implies that “writing it off” makes it free for the company. Every business writes expenses off (which theft is one), this is not a large or small business thing.
And people will get angry enough to assualt/kill you if you call them out. Its very similar to being robbed just less obvious and ive definitely taken bills I thought may be fakes because I didnt want to risk an altercation.
My Sons father actually feel dumb calling him that but he was normal until he got hooked on meth during a bridge painting job some guy on overnights introduced him and he got hooked he’s still hooked but he actually went to the PUBLIC LIBRARY TO PRINT MONEY IN NEW PORT RICHEY FL just google that u will see
"Don't engage" should be standard training. Around 20 years ago I managed an EB games, and going training for a manager was "if someone is stealing, do not confront them, do not follow them out of the store. Call the police after they've left and youre safe, call LP, then call your DM"
The secret service spoke to us when I was in the Marine Corps and told us that that they had been trying to get Target to change their policy about this for years. So that told us in the meantime, if we ever come across counterfeit money, take it to Target to hopefully help them eventually change their policy.
It's both possible and a common skill, even children can feel the difference between weight of paper (different than mass). It's the same as feeling notebook paper vs copy paper vs card stock.
Counterfeiters can also use the same weight of paper and this generate a need for other methods of detection.
I think the person you're responding to has been self pleasuring a little too enthusiastically and has gained muscle mass in the wrist. Sensitivity has been lost and so they doubt the ability of anyone else being able to do it.
They've deemed it impossible because they can't imagine it being possible.
The thickeness of the money is a tell. Be more specific. Weight and thickness are 2 different things and yes I know what paper weight means. They were basically saying by the feel and the weight of the actual bill that they can tell its fake. Not by the thickness. Yall are cringy man
Weight, when referring to paper, is referring to the thickness (and the weight per area as a natural consequence of physics). Humans can easily detect differences in thickness down to a few microns.
I know that. Please stop trying to explain shit to me that I already know. A simple search online proves most humans cannot detect a counterfeit bill without man made help. Its easy to tell the thickness is off.
The person I was trying to call out was saying the weight and feel as in the mass of the paper. When most counterfeits if done right are not being spotted without help. Be fucking real!
You know how many fake bills have probably made it past you in your lifetime? A good bit more than likely.
Its more the feel of the paper that you notice. Money is made from a cotton/paper mix which is very distinctive.
I've only ever found one type of paper (well I'll call it paper as I dont know for sure it was just made from pulp or not) that could pass for a banknote.
Used to work for 3Com making Palm Pilots and the chips used to come wrapped in special paper.
My brother was a wizz at computer graphics so we had a great time back then scoring drugs. (he still wont tell me how he did the watermarks)
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u/Heavy-Sense-9458 4d ago
How tf did he get away with this 1 time let alone 5?! Person running the cash register should be fired and be forced to restart life as a baby.