Posted on 04/21/2021 9:01:37 AM PDT by Meatspace
In the latest fraud-related news, two women in Tennessee were caught trying to pay for items using a fake $1 million bill earlier this month.
According to WREG Memphis, the incident occurred at a Dollar General store in Maryville, a suburb of Knoxville. The two women reportedly tried using the bill to pay for numerous gift cards, and, when confronted, they claimed they not to have known the bill was fraudulent.
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“they claimed they not to have known the bill was fraudulent.”
I don’t think the author of this article has much room to accuse anyone of being stupid.
3 registers?
In a Dollar General?....................
An eighth-grade student found herself in hot water for buying chicken nuggets for lunch - using a $2 bill.
Danesiah Neal, an eighth grader at Fort Bend Independent School District’s Christa McAuliffe Middle School outside of Houston, Texas, attempted to pay for lunch with a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother, Sharon Kay Joseph.
However, cafeteria workers at the school didn’t believe that it was real - they never see $2 bills, apparently - and she was sent to what Neal called “the police office.” The school district has since clarified that the Fort Bend ISD has its own police department.
According to Neal, the police officer told her that she could be in “big trouble” for using the bill which they believed to be counterfeit.
How much trouble? Under federal law, a person who intentionally uses counterfeit money can be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and subject to a fine.
Some semblance of sanity eventually took over and school officials called Joseph, who confirmed that she had given the bill to her granddaughter to pay for lunch.
In the meantime, the police (who apparently didn’t have much else to do that day) went to the convenience store where Joseph was given the bill.
They also took the bill to a local bank where it was eventually determined to be real. Phony crisis averted.
I was sure this was the Bee...
Tell me again why we do not have some kind of IQ test before letting people vote??
Inflation I guess. LOL
Hilarious! My brother in law was detained by Massachusetts State Police because a teenage cashier in a shop had never seen an old $100 bill before and reported it as counterfeit.
Collective IQ = ?
Obozo legal tender—accept it or we riot!
From the article:
“The pair was not charged for any crime but, as punishment, they were “issued with a verbal no trespass warning prohibiting them from coming back to the Dollar General store,” says UNILAD. The so-called $1 million bill was also confiscated by authorities.”
UNILAD is a British media company.
I’m surprised not to read the Dazzling Duo demanded that the cashier give the fake bill back to them. Maybe they were taken aback, because it’s worked for them before. That’s a scary thought.
“We don’t accept any fakes bigger than a twenty”
LOL! Now that right there...
I had a fake $1 Million Dollar Bill once.
I remember when the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. had to escape from a prison in Mexico and they made a million dollar bill by slicing and pasting 1s and 5s and 0s from various denominations to the ends of a bill.
This is based on Mark Twain story.
how in the world could the store tell the note was fake?
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