Florida man finds fake $100 bills on U.S. Highway 98 in Mary Esther.

NW Florida Daily News ^ | Posted Aug 1, 2019 at 3:38 PM | By Heather Osbourne

[Red Badger]

MARY ESTHER — At least one early morning driver was shocked after seeing thousands of what looked like $100 bills scattered along U.S. Highway 98.

Jorel Fountain, who was headed toward Fort Walton Beach at 8 a.m. Thursday, said he was near Tommy Lane when he saw paper scattered along the road. As he drove closer, he realized it was $100 bills and turned his car around and began to pick them up.

“It looked real except there wasn’t a Benjamin Franklin in the right hand corner,” Fountain said. “On the back, there was a Japanese stamp, but it was so faint that you couldn’t really see it.”

Fountain said a man on a motorcycle also was picking up the cash and said he didn’t think the money was real. Fountain said he picked up nine of the bills and called the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office to report what he also believed to be counterfeit cash.

Sheriff’s Office Spokeswoman Michele Nicholson said they received two reports about the incident. One caller said there were people on the side of the road picking up the bills.

Fountain said there were more than four people picking up the cash near him. He estimated the number of bills on the ground to be anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000.

A deputy was on scene by 8:23 a.m., but did not see any bills, Nicholson said.

[Red Badger]

Mary Esther - Fort Walton Beach - Destin areas!.................

[_Jim]

Reports are a garage sale ‘scored’ a fake 100 US note here locally (to me) about a week or two back ... found out when they went to the bank to make a deposit ... said garage sale person said they are not accepting any bills that large in the future!

[rockrr]

A deputy was on scene by 8:23 a.m., but did not see any bills, Nicholson said.

Oh I'm sure they'll turn up...

[subterfuge]

I’ve got plenty of bills they can have.

[Red Badger]

You would think the Asian writing would have been a dead giveaway!................

[VastRWCon]

I’ll give you $200 for that paddle board...

[woodbutcher1963]

Last week a guy in my office here in NH had a fake $20.
He received it from a friend of his for payment for something.
He went to deposit it in an ATM and the machine would not take it.
We all looked at it. The color was slightly off. It did not have the USA Twenty strip in it either. It also did not have the little colored flecks in it. It also was slightly smaller in length when compared to a real $20. About an 1/8 inch. However, at a quick glance you could easily pass it off in a bar or something like that.

I think it was a $1 bill that someone had bleached and reprinted.

[lee martell]

Did anyone check the Deputy’s pockets?
Well, hey, you know, we are all just human, prone to our mistakes!

[Cvengr]

First reported 2 years ago on the epochtimes.

Appears they are sold on ebay as novelties and originally used to train cashiers on how to ...er...count bills in China...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Florida Man,but of course.

[Kickass Conservative]

They were recently shooting a Movie here in Natchez, MS.

In one scene the Actor was throwing fake $100 Bills out the Window of a Car while being chased by the Cops.

People stopped and picked them up thinking they were real. They were pretty obvious fakes. The Cops were all over the Media telling people they were fake and to turn them in.

Big Kabuki. One of the Bills ended up in Vicksburg, supposedly at a Casino.

[Red Badger]

Counterfeiting used to be a Death Penalty offense! Time to rethink that!......... 🤑

[rockrr]

I would want one just as a souvenir but wouldn’t dare keep it.

[Red Badger]

[Boogieman]

“A deputy was on scene by 8:23 a.m., but did not see any bills...”

You’ve got to be quicker out of the donut shop when there are counterfeit hundreds lying about!

[John S Mosby]

“Thank God for Hard Currency”.....

Part of the “advance test team” for Election year “walking around money”...or... just the same old H dealing Asian mob with convertible currency.

For a smile— “Rupees!!”...” James Bond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl3n2qQ-iQ

[_Jim]

Another thing that one has to be mindful of ‘down here’ (in Tejas) when conducting any open ‘garage sale’ event is the arrival of the ‘clown car’ full of “XEs” (AKA Mescans; XE is the callsign prefix for radio licenses in Mexico) ... while half the groups distracts the seller and any helpers, the others work to steal the valuables ...

[Red Badger]

I heard it on The X!..........

[bigbob]

Watch for the YouTube video titled “Florida Dumbasses Fall for Fake $100 Bill Ploy!”

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In my early career I worked as a typesetter and for quite some time worked on a prominent numismatic journal. I enjoyed reading the stories of counterfeiting in the nineteenth century. One of these involved the proprietor of a busy restaurant. One day a ragged-looking tramp walks into the restaurant and gives the owner a sob story about being down on his luck and begs for something to eat. The owner, feeling sorry for him, sits him alone in the back and gives him a meal worth about a dollar at the time. When he's finished eating, the vagrant walks up to the owner with tears in his eyes and starts weeping with gratitude as he thanks him profusely for his generosity. His face streaming with tears, the vagrant pulls out a handerchief, at which point a $20 bill falls from his pocket to the ground.

"Why you dirty ...!" exclaims the owner. "You've had money all along!" He snatches up the twenty and heads for the register, where he rings up the $1 cost of the meal, then angrily throws the bum his change while ordering him out of his establishment.

So now the bum has a $1 meal and nineteen good dollars, while the owner is left holding a counterfeit twenty!