In Which Gaki Runs Like the Wind

[XCashier]

Don't rely on the anti-counterfeiting pen to tell you if a note is genuine; it's only iodine that reacts to the starch in paper. A genuine note that's been through the wash might cause a black mark, and a counterfeit printed on high-quality paper might cause the yellow mark.

Here's a site to learn how to distinguish real from fake: http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml

I check the watermark and run a fingernail over the portrait. The ink is raised, so your fingernail hits each line and it's like ^^^^^ rather than -------.

[venroses]

I've caught a few fake 5s and 10s at my work, but in my safe and not from a customer. And I noticed a fake 10 in a customer's purse once and told her about it. And in a dollarama across town, I saw one worker telling someone else that this 10 he was holding was fake. They are all fake in the same way.

They're actually good fakes too... if you look at a lot of money all day you notice the colouring of the faces is a bit off (Canadian money..) But a quick glance, you can't tell! The paper feels close, and everything. But they're also missing the face in the window and the uv marker is just a stamp that says bank of canada. Like if you look at it under the light, you can tell it was just stamped on top. And they look pretty close to new, but the year on the bill is 2005 and bills don't usually look new for that long.

At my old work, I saw terribly fake 5s,10s, 20s, and an even worst down 100$ bill and all these things were accepted! The 100$ bill wasn't even close to looking real! I still can believe someone accept it.

[Magpie]

[QUOTE=venroses;753650]They're actually good fakes too... if you look at a lot of money all day you notice the colouring of the faces is a bit off (Canadian money..) But a quick glance, you can't tell! The paper feels close, and everything. But they're also missing the face in the window and the uv marker is just a stamp that says bank of canada. Like if you look at it under the light, you can tell it was just stamped on top. And they look pretty close to new, but the year on the bill is 2005 and bills don't usually look new for that long./QUOTE]

2005? So they have the holographic foil strips and everything? I can see with an old bill, but I'm scared that people can make good fakes of a modern bill.

[venroses]

For some reason I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have the foil strips...but most people don't pay attention to that for some reason. Like the lady who had it in her purse. I just looked it up and saw that they added the foil strips and face in the window in 2005. So when the new bill first came out, did not have the strip yet. Maybe thats why they don`t notice... These bill were in my safe too.. so someone else had to not notice as well.

But when I found these fakes, I didn`t notice the lack of foil at first, it was the colouring in the face, like it had bled from the lines.

I am glad they changed the uv markers though. They used to just be dots!

[hinakiba777]

I don't like paying at the pump. It drives me NUTS. There is one gas station I go to where you can pay inside before you pump, which I appreciate. Most others are pay before but they are only about 4 to 8 pumps so it's easy to see people the way they are set up. People who Pump'n'Run ruin pumping gas for the honest people >.<

Hooray for getting to talk to the hot cop.

I have nothing to say about counterfeiting.