Given counterfeit money for Private sale - any advice?

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  • soolin
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    ricdan83 wrote: »
    Absolutely - They are determining right now whether it should be the Laptop or the money that should be replaced. If it is the latter it then does not become worthwhile with the excess I have.

    The problem is that regardless of what they pay out, or even not at all, you need to declare the claim in future, so be careful when renewing insurance. Make sure whichever company you go to is aware that a claim has been made.
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  • ricdan83
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    RFW wrote: »
    It may be a dumb question but have you contacted the buyer? I doubt it would help but anything's possible.

    The profile was deleted within a couple of hours of the sale. Again, my own fault for being naive!
  • wishuponastar
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    I posted earlier and gave some advice about a pen, if you have read it, I hope it was helpful?


    Was it paper or plastic notes? And what denominations of notes were they?
  • foxy-stoat
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    soolin wrote: »
    Supermarkets would also retain the note , just as the bank did.

    Agreed - thats why you "test" one note - if thats a fakey then you will only lose that note.

    The OP paid in all of them and had the lot taken away.
  • mandy44d
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    foxy-stoat wrote: »
    Agreed - thats why you "test" one note - if thats a fakey then you will only lose that note.

    The OP paid in all of them and had the lot taken away.

    And what could you do with a load of fake notes? I'm guessing you'd look to pass them on to some other poor sod.
  • Stoke
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    ricdan83 wrote: »
    Thanks Everyone. The Police have said its a lost case, understandably.

    Trying to make a case to claim it back through insurance, but that isn't proving easy!
    Why understandably? Counterfeit money is a serious crime, that causes innocent people and businesses huge amounts of stress and complications. Shouldn't they have at least had a look at the notes to see if there was any resemblance to previous fake notes they've come across?

    Too much hard work for the boys in blue that, what with common sense being so uncommon amongst the British police.
  • T-G-C
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    Stoke wrote: »
    Why understandably? Counterfeit money is a serious crime, that causes innocent people and businesses huge amounts of stress and complications. Shouldn't they have at least had a look at the notes to see if there was any resemblance to previous fake notes they've come across?

    Too much hard work for the boys in blue that, what with common sense being so uncommon amongst the British police.

    The police will often refuse to investigate fraud and fraudulent currency of a low-level / low-scale nature. The financial loss would have to be substantial enough to warrant an investigation.

    Action Fraud UK was created to filter such reports based on their gravity score. The National Crime Agency will pass cases to the police, where there is sufficient grounds for it.

    In terms of these fake notes, the circumstances of the OP's case wouldn't have been enough to warrant an investigation by CID or SCD 1.

    On a personal level, I am disappointed at the lack of resources, however this seems to be the current framework until more funding is put into policing these types of crimes.
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  • Stoke
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    T-G-C wrote: »
    The police will often refuse to investigate fraud and fraudulent currency of a low-level / low-scale nature. The financial loss would have to be substantial enough to warrant an investigation.

    Action Fraud UK was created to filter such reports based on their gravity score. The National Crime Agency will pass cases to the police, where there is sufficient grounds for it.

    In terms of these fake notes, the circumstances of the OP's case wouldn't have been enough to warrant an investigation by CID or SCD 1.

    On a personal level, I am disappointed at the lack of resources, however this seems to be the current framework until more funding is put into policing these types of crimes.
    The problem is, I'm not convinced more funding would help low level crime.
  • Emmia
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    mandy44d said:
    foxy-stoat wrote: »
    Agreed - thats why you "test" one note - if thats a fakey then you will only lose that note.

    The OP paid in all of them and had the lot taken away.

    And what could you do with a load of fake notes? I'm guessing you'd look to pass them on to some other poor sod.
    I think knowingly using fake money is in itself an offence - so if the OP had used it in a shop to pay for goods, they would be committing an offence too.

    There is also the point that their use of fake notes might have been detected at the point of sale, which might be a bit embarrassing... or possibly worse.
  • soolin
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    As this thread is over 2 years old I’m going to close it to avoid confusion. 
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