Alleged fake note

shaun_from_Africa

What I would be tempted to do is to ask a friend or relative to go back to the shop when the same person is working there and make another purchase using a £20 note and see if the same thing happens.
I know that it's unlikely to, but if it does then it's certainly worth getting the police involved.

hollydays

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

What I would be tempted to do is to ask a friend or relative to go back to the shop when the same person is working there and make another purchase using a £20 note and see if the same thing happens.
I know that it's unlikely to, but if it does then it's certainly worth getting the police involved.

Yes-make sure you have the serial number noted-although this in itself is a known scam.

WannaBLoaded

you can't trust shop keepers, they always seem to short change, over charge or palm fake notes off on to you.

Everyone is a money grabbing so and so these days.

I got a fake tenner palmed off to me from some small shop, the woman did it on purpose too because she never took it out of the till. I never noticed until the next day. If i didn't think i would end up in jail i would have returned and chinned her, for having the gall to be such a disgusting person.

Too many crooks work in corner shops. Blame tony blair.

London50

Marktheshark wrote: »

This is a very common way forged money gets in to circulation.
By people working on tills palming real notes and handing customers back forged notes in change or claiming them to be fake.

I would not have it as well, check the notes before the sale and giving change out is basic shop practice, anything else is extremely dodgy.

If they hand back the "alleged " fake note to the customer they are breaking the law as they should recharge the customer or take the goods back and report the fake notes to the police.
Even {as far as I understand it} banks have ended up through the ATM's giving out these fakes that are in the system and it is the general public that ends up suffering.

hollydays

London50 wrote: »

If they hand back the "alleged " fake note to the customer they are breaking the law as they should recharge the customer or take the goods back and report the fake notes to the police.
Even {as far as I understand it} banks have ended up through the ATM's giving out these fakes that are in the system and it is the general public that ends up suffering.

Obviously they are breaking the law if they deliberately hand the note out .

A shop is allowed to confiscate a fake note from the customer.

hollydays

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

you can't trust shop keepers, they always seem to short change, over charge or palm fake notes off on to you.

Everyone is a money grabbing so and so these days.

I got a fake tenner palmed off to me from some small shop, the woman did it on purpose too because she never took it out of the till. I never noticed until the next day. If i didn't think i would end up in jail i would have returned and chinned her, for having the gall to be such a disgusting person.

Too many crooks work in corner shops. Blame tony blair.

Don't quite see the Blair connection meself

WannaBLoaded

hollydays wrote: »

Don't quite see the Blair connection meself

He can be blamed for all the countries ills. :money:

hollydays

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

He can be blamed for all the countries ills. :money:

I thought that was thatcher.

daytona0

I was tempted to send someone else up and test that theory...

hollydays

Daytona , were you dressed like a tramp..?