Counterfeit £20s from a cashtill

withabix

You must tell the Police and your Bank Manager, as the implication of you getting forged notes out of the cash machine is that someone working in that bank branch, or the security company that refills their machines, is swapping fake notes for real ones.

I suspect that your bank will probably give you £40 if you ask nicely, as you've potentially alerted them to what could be a major fraud being operated within their company.

wannabedebtfree_2

dawnydee73 wrote:

If you are trained to spot forgeries then how come she got them from the bank?? If staff are so well trained then they would not been taken in the first place

I believe the notes were from a cash machine, in which case the cashiers at the bank would not have even seen the notes, they would have come in a huge pack ready to go straight into the machine..........at some point they must have been handled by human hands, so somewhere along the line they have been missed, because on the couple of occassions when we had counterfeit notes at our branch (one of them in a wad with a bank stamped paper wrap around it!!!) I spotted them immediately, they looked very good, quite high quality, but the paper used is totally different, I would have noticed it with my eyes shut!!!

C_Ronaldo

if the OP got the notes from a cashpoint then how come the notes were in there in the first place, dont the banks check the notes that are put in the atms

speedyjoe

iainkirk wrote:

I suspect that your bank will probably give you £40 if you ask nicely, as you've potentially alerted them to what could be a major fraud being operated within their company.

Yeah sure, they will take the notes, hand them to the police and say "sorry hard luck, major fraud being operated within our company? Most certainly not!"

I'm afraid if you end up with forged notes you either have to be honest and hand them to the police and lose out or play the criminal and pass them on. It's not a nice thing at all.

angelatgraceland

Its tempting to "pay them" into your account along with a few others. Maybe not the right way but none of this is at all fair. I can't see you getting reimbursed for them-people would be printing their own money to swap at the bank if that worled.

ben500

wannabedebtfree wrote:

Having worked in the banking industry I can tell you that if you knowingly try to pass them off to someone else, be it in a shop, or in the bank it will be you that is committing fraud, and regardless of how you came across them you could end up being charged for it!!

Unfortunately you will have to pass them to the bank or police, and will have to swallow the £40 loss, (which if it was me would be totally devastating) I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I wouldn't want you getting in trouble over it!

x

Not quite, I had a forged twenty passed to me by the bank and immediately refused it, she (it was a she honest) replied I'm sorry but I will have to retain this note as I cannot lawfully pass it back into circulation and cannot be sure it's one of the ones I gave you, I replied you didn't give it to me I refused to accept it, she just kept saying sorry but I have no choice, no problem says I, pulled out my phone and called the police myself, on their arrival they duly instructed her to hand over a legal note in place of the forgery or I would be able to make a report for the THEFT of my money unless of course they wished to deduct the amount from the withdrawal total. I got my money, how the hell they thought I wouldn't is beyond me.

It was Barclays by the way.

ben500

wannabedebtfree wrote:

ooops, forgot to add that we are also trained in how to spot forgeries, and its usually fairly obvious even just the feel of the paper is different, so the bank teller SHOULD spot them a mile off!!

So can I assume the teller in my case KNEW she was passing me a duff note??

mclaren_2

ben500 wrote:

So can I assume the teller in my case KNEW she was passing me a duff note??

yes i would assume so - there are bad forgirys and good ones. you have a few choices - you can

A: put them in a frame
B: try forget about them being in your wallet and, well, corner shop owners who are on the phone oops, i never put that lol.....
C: talk to the bank manager, explaining the circumstances
C1: he will tell you to hand to the police - you can if you wish
C2: he will give you a £40 good will credit
go in to a bank, as said above, and withdraw £200 - and then say, wait, ive just taken too much, and hand the £100 back over .... if spotted - she just handed you it..... (but not worth the risk imho)

Personally, i think the only 2 viable options are there above...

but in future, check ya change and notes

mrmajika

I used to work in a supermarket. When we got forgeries we used to bank them and hope for the best. More often than not, they weren't picked up.

It's just luck. At the end of the day, it's a human that's going to check the cash, so they could miss it.

One option would be to go to your local branch when it's busy, find the dopiest looking teller, then try and pay it in with some other notes.

This of course would probably be illegal.:o

V.Lucky

Are you sure they are forgeries??

Unusual to get forgeries from cash machines.