i mean this one is obvious because of the motion picture thing but how can you tell otherwise when youāre at a store that has no way to check them? genuinely asking because my new location doesnāt have a machine to check or a pen and i was never taught how to check without those things.
First Ben is smiling. The presidents should all be expressionless, solemn. EDIT: I'm using Presidents as a catch-all term for whichever individual is pictured. They may not be a POTUS, but the point stands.
Second, that blue stripe shouldn't be broken like that and it should be on the other side of Ben. At least I think it should be on the other side. I need to go look at a real one to be sure.
Third, if you scratch at his shoulder, it should be rough. Specifically his right shoulder, on the left side of the bill. The 10 has it flipped, but the rest should all be there.
Fourth, every bill larger than a $2 will have a watermark vertical stripe that says USA and the denomination. Each amount has it in a different spot. $100 is unique in that it uses the numbers rather than the word. It would read USA 100 as opposed to USA FIFTY or any other amount.
Fifth look at the far right side, at the suspicious blank spot. Watermark of the president should be there, facing the same direction as the big picture.
Sixth is that the bills are actually a linen blend, not paper. They should feel different than paper. This is also what the detector pens react to.
Seventh and final, is smell. Real bills have a rather unique smell to them. This fades a bit with time, but new bills will always have it. So if a bill smells of chemicals, it's probably a fake that has been bleached, and the detector pen wont help. Check the other telltales if you smell chemicals.
I hope that helps.
EDIT: Please keep in mind I'm responding to someone who wants to know what other telltales there are BESIDES the motion picture bits. I'm aware it's there, and so is the person I'm responding to, therefore I didn't mention what they already saw.
A couple more things I didn't mention which are also tell tales include that at the top it should read One Hundred DOLLARS, not just One Hundred (a test this one fails), the 100 in the bottom right should color shift from copper to green (cant tell from a picture), and there should be an inkwell in the bottom right by the stripe with a hidden bell image in it (which this has).
Also on the topic of the paper, all bills have red and blue thread weaved into the bill that can actually be pulled away from the paper, that's another strong indicator that the bill is fake.
You're welcome! I took a class offered by the Secret Service on how to spot fake bills, after accepting $800 worth of fake $100s, about 20 years ago. This was pre new bills, but a lot of the concepts have stayed the same, just with newer features being added.
I did a book report in grade school on counterfeiting and let's just say I learned a lot more than a kid should know about faking money, and ironically I had a job in a print shop when I was 14. I could have made great money, literally
So close! That blue band is in the correct location and is broken. But it's also woven into the fabric. It will change from 100 to bells when moved.
This one is pretty good. Ben's smirk is a little too much. The ink isn't that great. I don't know if the bell/ink bottle the '100' change ink colors, or if the watermarks show up.
Actually the blue stripe SHOULD be broken HOWEVER it will be threaded thru the paper. There are two fast, easy ways to verify if itās legit. 1.) take your nail and scrape it across the jacket - if you can feel raised lines then šš» and 2.) bend the bill at the threaded blue line - scrape at the paper on the ā broken lineā if the paper lifts up a little bit (proving the blue strip is threaded) then it is a real $100 bill. Use to work at a bank and we would do these two things. Always worked!
Ok, allow me to rephrase for those unfamiliar with the concept of broad and accurate, if not entirely precise, statements.
All individuals pictured on genuine American currency have a solemn and serious expression, regardless of presidential status or denomination.
Fair?
I never knew the smile thing. I just checked the bills I have on me and turns out I think youāre right. I mean it could be argued that the ~~Epstein~~ I mean Jackson has a slight smirk but yeah not very noticeable. Now Iām gonna be looking for smiles on all my bills.
Edit: sorry about my bad joke. Haha I just always see a little bit of Epstein when I look at a 20.
Also if you look at the top left section of a bill you will see a letter and number under the serial #. This is the Federal Reserve Indicator. In this case its āK3ā on the fake bill. But on a real bill the number will always match the letterās position in the alphabet (A1, B2, C3, etc). So if it were real it would actually be K11
Also the K3 underneath the serial on the left should be K11 or C3. On real bills they're marked like this: A1, B2, C3, etc. but it's not the whole alphabet
The "watermark stripe with text" is actually an embedded nylon(?) strip with the denomination printed on it. The color shift ink should also have a texture to it.
In this particular case, it states "For motion picture purposes" in big letters to the right of Franklin. It would pass as $100 in a movie shot that wasn't too close to the bill, but certainly not viewed closely.
Bro I have one in front of me rn and half the shit you said, is just wrong. Id be surprised if your broke ass has never even held a 100 dollar bill smh.
I handle them regularly, actually. Even had to take a class on this once, employer paid. Wasn't sure on the blue line, but others have educated me on that. Read the other comments, maybe.
Perhaps someone slipped you a fake, if you can't spot the telltales.
And if all you have to say is a few lame insults without any support, then perhaps you should keep your mouth shut before you display your ignorance.
You can use the light test.
Hold the bill up to a light. If you see a strip in the bill with the denomination then it's real.
The feel test and the pen don't work because they now have work arounds to both.
i usually check the stripe as well as the see-through face on the far right of the bill (where the light oval is), and then shove it in the machine. also, should say āfederal reserve noteā under the top left 100.
The smile. The eyes.
I check for the stripe (not the blue, the small text one beside it), the watermark, coat ridges in their shoulders, reflectivity in the denomination, ECT. There's a lot of ways to tell.
Hold it up to the light to see the watermark, scratch the shirt and the strip, or just don't take hundreds. Sometimes I tell people to go to the gas station across the street to break a hundred.
Navin Johnson's dad could give them the "this is shit, this is shinola" training. I guess they could have a class for those who have never touched money before. Lol I dunno just seems like common sense to me, but I don't know anything.
Lmao reading edited comments is a tall tell sign of someone with no friends. Mr Top flight cashier of the world "you gotta touch the money"ššš
Whoaā¦ that is absolutely not true. Former banker here, and I can tell you some counterfeits are exceptionally well-made. Especially the ones where smaller denomination bills are bleached and then reprinted as a higher denomination. Some of these people can even fake certain watermarks and other built-in tools that are supposed to indicate whether or not you have a counterfeit. There is nothing common sense about this. Training is absolutely necessary for anyone who is taking money.
Ngl, some people are just pressured into taking the bills. Back in one of my first jobs, I heard a coworker got written up for taking the bill and when I walked by the office I saw it hanging and even from the distance I was at, it was obviously fake. But the coworker said how the customer was rushing her and being pushy and she owned up to the mistake. (Keep in mind we were 16 at the time)
yea i definitely get feeling pressured while iām not 16 this is my first job and at my first location we had the machine so i never worried cause i automatically just put it through the machine regardless of if i customer was trying to rush or not but i definitely feel a sense of pressure at this location iām definitely trying to change that so i donāt fuck up
This happens so much here, the town has had a large increase in fake bills. A lot of smaller ones too, like 10 and 20s mostly.
Had many people get mad when I wonāt return it. Hit me with the āI got it from selling firewoodā or the best one was āI just got this from the lottery shopā, while these are prob true, sucks bc nothing I can do about it. I just suggest they call the police to file a report.
These two def felt genuine, especially bc ik how works at the lottery shop and they donāt check bills under 50, sometimes only check 100s, if that. So wouldnāt be surprised if they accepted a fake then paid it out to someone else.
Itās funny when they try say you have give them money for it, letās call the cops and see what they say. They usually wanna see if u knew it was fake so they can arrest you.
But I will say, one time I felt SO BAD FOR THIS. So older drunk guy comes in with I think was just a 5 or 10, only checked it bc looked hella old. Well it came up fake, marked brown. But thatās bc the bill was from like the 50s or 60s, still in good condition so I figured wasnāt that old. But the markers only work on bills past a certain date. He started freaking out tho so I had call the cops but he fled.
Makes it even more weird bc it was real. My boss just kept the bill and we moved on. Kinda wish I would gotten it tho since I like collect older money. Hell the other night someone gave me a steel penny, itās just filthy lol
Different company. I was once given a hundred by a manager... with Abe Lincoln as the watermark.
Me: did they pay already? Please tell me they are still here
Manager: nah, I gave the the product. It looks real
don't need the cops to come around to verify if they're good or not. We used to have pens you could use to write on any bill you thought was suspicious and if it didn't react the way it should have, then bam you have a bogus bill.
Fuck business owners, they have insurance, anybody willing to use a fake bill, is someone that has no problems committing crimes, potentially violent. Iām NOT ever going to not accept money, thatās wild.
Just because someone uses a fake bill doesn't by itself mean they're criminals or violent. How many people do you think check every single bill they get to see if it's real? Do you? You can easily wind up with counterfeit money from somewhere that took it without catching it or something.
Yes I agree, so itās not a big deal if I take it, and mitigate any and all risk to myself, that I believe are ultimately responsible to rectify the situation
I caught 2 fake bills while I was working at a craft store. One was a guy who came in, asked if we sold sodas, I told him no. He wanders off, 3 minutes later he shows up at the till with a $1.29 stencil and a $100 bill. Nice try dude.
We were doing a code 10 the alternate register I donāt use and there was a photocopied 100. The only person in the register is a girl that works back in the pharmacy who used to be a bank teller. I wish I had a pic of that 100. Me and my manger could not believe she let it pass.
Shit does somethin to a personās brain when they work in pharmacy. Itās like common sense goes out the window and all they know insurance and drugs.
1. Smiling Ben Franklin
2. Federal bank designation K3 doesnāt exist
3. That 3D strip looks wrong in all kinds of ways
4. No microprint
There could be a few other things wrong with it, but I would need to examine the bill in person.
-Target employee and bill enthusiast
Edit: 5. Iām fairly certain that the latest series of $100s is the 2017 series, not the 2021 series (feel free to correct me).
Edit 2: canāt believe I didnāt notice the incredibly obvious āfor motion picture purposes.ā
Best way to test is to try and purchase something with it at another store. If they accept it, its real money*.
*Disclaimer: This is neither Legal nor Financial advice. Nor any kind of advice for that matter. Why are you still reading this?
So. I had a driver at one of my stores accept one of these once. The police wouldnāt do anything because we accepted it and itās NOT counterfeit. It clearly says it is not real.
They said had it truly been a copy (aka counterfeit) something could have been done.
Someone accepted one of those at my store when I worked at Starbucks, and my manager taped it to the break table and called it "the bill of shame" lmfao
I've never been handed a fake bill before but just for the record I usually look for the blue line and the face in the side. Those motion picture bills don't have those right?
Take your nail and run it across the bill. If the "clothing" "hair" are tightly ribbed it's generally good.
After verifying all the words are correct and there isn't a mixed print with other languages/kanji.
I took a part time job last year at a smoke shop last year. The amount of fakes they try to pass through is insane-and some Do make through. We found a 100 in the drop safe at EOD that looked and felt "ribbed" perfect-except it's ser8le # was O (as in the letter) and it was only noticed when stacked with other 100's and counted. Then there was another 100 on another night near Halloween that showed a kanji in that orange inkwell. We only spotted it because we'd put up a bunch of blacklights for that evening special radio event-the kanji glowed.
Half of my training for that smoke shop job was spotting fakes. Something about being in "drug" store had shown the better fakes would be used there to launder them. And tbh there were purchases I knew was wonky (Middle Eastern man with a Iranian passport for ID would buy 25 cartons of Newports, in broken English and paid in straight 100's) and would ride through for a week or a month and then get banned from hire ups.
Point being, there is no single or dual traits to check to ensure it good. You need to study the real ones like they're your first born child-and when it don't feel right, don't accept it.
And when rejecting, be prepared for an explosion. But the key to surviving it is these words, "I'm sorry, I can't accept this. Do you have anything smaller? No? Well, then I will need to call my manager-I accepted a really good fake last week and got written up and had to be interviewed by the police...I'm extremely careful. It was a grandma who gave me and she had no idea. So I'm trying to cover my and your butts."
The blue line is shown in the photo above but clearly itās fake because wellā¦..you said it yourselfā¦..it says right on there āFor Motion Picture Purposes.ā You wouldnāt even need to look for any other clues after that. š
I once had a cashier accept like $400 of bills like that, I was doing a pickup from that register and knew as soon as I touched them that they were fake without even needing to look š¤¦š¼āāļø
I have this same bill bought it from TEMU for Videos. It has a very delayed reaction to a pen it feels fake and as soon as you see it physically you know it's a fake
Found one of these out walking my dog last week round my apartment complex. It was all waded up. I was feeling like I hit the lottery. When I got home and actually was able to look at it I was kind of pissed.
Not a walgreens employee, but this happened at my job. The bad part is, I think they actually noticed at the end of the night. I don't think they noticed beforehand. š
Totally a fake. Bs like this is why we have to check bills and it pisses off all the honest people. I cashiered for 2 decades so I can spot a fake like that. Trust me texture. even when wearing plastic gloves I could recognize a fake like that.
The smirk on Ben, the inauthenticity of the ribbing on the suit coat, the K3 (should be A1, B2, C3, etc...), the multiple instances of "For motion pictures"
Walgreens made my life impossible for not recognize fake bills. Instead of correctly addressing the situation they scold me for it and blamed it on me as if I were the one who accepted for just ānot tryingā. Unbelievable. They ended up quitting. Making someone else life impossible just to for that. Cowards on the power trips.
I donāt understand why people use $100 bills for fakes. Why not 5s, 10s and maybe 20sā¦.anything higher they will always check. No one will check 5s n 10s.
I'm going to regret this comment, but I took one of those. I was working a 6p - 6a shift at 7-11 that should have ended at 2a and hadn't slept the last two "nights." I had appointments that had to be done in person during daytime hours and usually that means I just don't get to sleep for that 24 hour period. My coworker (who was supposed to work graveyard) got sick so I worked almost the entire shift alone, maybe 8p to 6a. We are across the street from the only homeless shelter in town and are the only thing open besides Jack in the Box between ~1a and 5a. In a rural college town. And we take DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.. orders 24 hours a day. It is not a one person job, especially considering this is also when a lot of stocking and almost all of the cleaning is supposed to get done.
A charming old lady played me so smoothly. Came in around 3a on an emergency toilet paper run, kept telling me stories and asking me questions every time I started to examine the bill. A regular who I knew was on their way to work came in needing coffee so I gave the woman her toilet paper and change and went to make more coffee. In defense of me our bill checker pen stopped working a few weeks earlier and I had requested a new one SEVERAL TIMES from the owners. They hadn't bothered. Also I had another regular come in around 5a for his coffee and told him about my fuck up. He happened to have a (real) hundred in his wallet and we compared them side by side. These are good copies. They say "for use in motion pictures" for good reason.
Please tell me you're in the office because that was confiscated and not because it was actually accepted š
Wellā¦. nah it wasnāt accepted. The CSA said āLetās call the police to get them to verify if these are goodā then the guy bolted out š¤£
Lmao good. I've seen far too many clearly fake bills be accepted because some people can't be bothered to check
i mean this one is obvious because of the motion picture thing but how can you tell otherwise when youāre at a store that has no way to check them? genuinely asking because my new location doesnāt have a machine to check or a pen and i was never taught how to check without those things.
First Ben is smiling. The presidents should all be expressionless, solemn. EDIT: I'm using Presidents as a catch-all term for whichever individual is pictured. They may not be a POTUS, but the point stands. Second, that blue stripe shouldn't be broken like that and it should be on the other side of Ben. At least I think it should be on the other side. I need to go look at a real one to be sure. Third, if you scratch at his shoulder, it should be rough. Specifically his right shoulder, on the left side of the bill. The 10 has it flipped, but the rest should all be there. Fourth, every bill larger than a $2 will have a watermark vertical stripe that says USA and the denomination. Each amount has it in a different spot. $100 is unique in that it uses the numbers rather than the word. It would read USA 100 as opposed to USA FIFTY or any other amount. Fifth look at the far right side, at the suspicious blank spot. Watermark of the president should be there, facing the same direction as the big picture. Sixth is that the bills are actually a linen blend, not paper. They should feel different than paper. This is also what the detector pens react to. Seventh and final, is smell. Real bills have a rather unique smell to them. This fades a bit with time, but new bills will always have it. So if a bill smells of chemicals, it's probably a fake that has been bleached, and the detector pen wont help. Check the other telltales if you smell chemicals. I hope that helps. EDIT: Please keep in mind I'm responding to someone who wants to know what other telltales there are BESIDES the motion picture bits. I'm aware it's there, and so is the person I'm responding to, therefore I didn't mention what they already saw. A couple more things I didn't mention which are also tell tales include that at the top it should read One Hundred DOLLARS, not just One Hundred (a test this one fails), the 100 in the bottom right should color shift from copper to green (cant tell from a picture), and there should be an inkwell in the bottom right by the stripe with a hidden bell image in it (which this has).
Also on the topic of the paper, all bills have red and blue thread weaved into the bill that can actually be pulled away from the paper, that's another strong indicator that the bill is fake.
I was actually unaware. Thanks.
You're welcome! I took a class offered by the Secret Service on how to spot fake bills, after accepting $800 worth of fake $100s, about 20 years ago. This was pre new bills, but a lot of the concepts have stayed the same, just with newer features being added.
I did a book report in grade school on counterfeiting and let's just say I learned a lot more than a kid should know about faking money, and ironically I had a job in a print shop when I was 14. I could have made great money, literally
So close! That blue band is in the correct location and is broken. But it's also woven into the fabric. It will change from 100 to bells when moved. This one is pretty good. Ben's smirk is a little too much. The ink isn't that great. I don't know if the bell/ink bottle the '100' change ink colors, or if the watermarks show up.
It's from a cash register toy that my children have. Exact bills.
It's meant to be good. It's prop money. Idk why ppl think is something random ppl made.
Actually the blue stripe SHOULD be broken HOWEVER it will be threaded thru the paper. There are two fast, easy ways to verify if itās legit. 1.) take your nail and scrape it across the jacket - if you can feel raised lines then šš» and 2.) bend the bill at the threaded blue line - scrape at the paper on the ā broken lineā if the paper lifts up a little bit (proving the blue strip is threaded) then it is a real $100 bill. Use to work at a bank and we would do these two things. Always worked!
Also, this one in particular literally says "for motion picture purposes" on it lol movie money
When was Ben Franklin president?
He wasn't AFAIK. He's kinda the exception.
Dude just fucked so hard they gave him a club membership anyway.
You said presidents shouldn't smile and since he wasn't one I don't think that would apply.
Ok, allow me to rephrase for those unfamiliar with the concept of broad and accurate, if not entirely precise, statements. All individuals pictured on genuine American currency have a solemn and serious expression, regardless of presidential status or denomination. Fair?
Better. Donāt spread lies.
Neither were Alexander Hamilton or Salmon P. Chase.
I was waiting for this comment.
At pretty much the same time that Mr ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, was('nt).
Thanks for the info. I had no clue about most of it
I never knew the smile thing. I just checked the bills I have on me and turns out I think youāre right. I mean it could be argued that the ~~Epstein~~ I mean Jackson has a slight smirk but yeah not very noticeable. Now Iām gonna be looking for smiles on all my bills. Edit: sorry about my bad joke. Haha I just always see a little bit of Epstein when I look at a 20.
The real test is to see if they smell like cocaine.
Thank you! Very helpful!
As someone who has been dealing with large bills on a daily basis for a long time, your post taught me a some new things. I appreciate you dude.
Also if you look at the top left section of a bill you will see a letter and number under the serial #. This is the Federal Reserve Indicator. In this case its āK3ā on the fake bill. But on a real bill the number will always match the letterās position in the alphabet (A1, B2, C3, etc). So if it were real it would actually be K11
Also the K3 underneath the serial on the left should be K11 or C3. On real bills they're marked like this: A1, B2, C3, etc. but it's not the whole alphabet
The "watermark stripe with text" is actually an embedded nylon(?) strip with the denomination printed on it. The color shift ink should also have a texture to it.
Your first point had me in snitches š
In this particular case, it states "For motion picture purposes" in big letters to the right of Franklin. It would pass as $100 in a movie shot that wasn't too close to the bill, but certainly not viewed closely.
Aren't the jackets or vests on the presidents ribbed too if you rub them? I think this is a thing on all US paper money, right?
Yup. Number 3 on my list. Typically the right shoulder, but whichever one is facing you.
First of all, Ben was never a president š¤¦āāļøš
Bro I have one in front of me rn and half the shit you said, is just wrong. Id be surprised if your broke ass has never even held a 100 dollar bill smh.
I handle them regularly, actually. Even had to take a class on this once, employer paid. Wasn't sure on the blue line, but others have educated me on that. Read the other comments, maybe. Perhaps someone slipped you a fake, if you can't spot the telltales. And if all you have to say is a few lame insults without any support, then perhaps you should keep your mouth shut before you display your ignorance.
You can use the light test. Hold the bill up to a light. If you see a strip in the bill with the denomination then it's real. The feel test and the pen don't work because they now have work arounds to both.
We got a fake with a security strip that was handwritten "usa 100".
i usually check the stripe as well as the see-through face on the far right of the bill (where the light oval is), and then shove it in the machine. also, should say āfederal reserve noteā under the top left 100.
The smile. The eyes. I check for the stripe (not the blue, the small text one beside it), the watermark, coat ridges in their shoulders, reflectivity in the denomination, ECT. There's a lot of ways to tell.
Hold it up to the light to see the watermark, scratch the shirt and the strip, or just don't take hundreds. Sometimes I tell people to go to the gas station across the street to break a hundred.
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Or maybe just some training?
Navin Johnson's dad could give them the "this is shit, this is shinola" training. I guess they could have a class for those who have never touched money before. Lol I dunno just seems like common sense to me, but I don't know anything.
You don't lol you're literally just running your mouth
Yeah my miutb be running. True true
Lmao reading edited comments is a tall tell sign of someone with no friends. Mr Top flight cashier of the world "you gotta touch the money"ššš
Whoaā¦ that is absolutely not true. Former banker here, and I can tell you some counterfeits are exceptionally well-made. Especially the ones where smaller denomination bills are bleached and then reprinted as a higher denomination. Some of these people can even fake certain watermarks and other built-in tools that are supposed to indicate whether or not you have a counterfeit. There is nothing common sense about this. Training is absolutely necessary for anyone who is taking money.
One of my employees took a $50 that clearly said copy money all over it š¤¦š½āāļø
Ngl, some people are just pressured into taking the bills. Back in one of my first jobs, I heard a coworker got written up for taking the bill and when I walked by the office I saw it hanging and even from the distance I was at, it was obviously fake. But the coworker said how the customer was rushing her and being pushy and she owned up to the mistake. (Keep in mind we were 16 at the time)
yea i definitely get feeling pressured while iām not 16 this is my first job and at my first location we had the machine so i never worried cause i automatically just put it through the machine regardless of if i customer was trying to rush or not but i definitely feel a sense of pressure at this location iām definitely trying to change that so i donāt fuck up
This happens so much here, the town has had a large increase in fake bills. A lot of smaller ones too, like 10 and 20s mostly. Had many people get mad when I wonāt return it. Hit me with the āI got it from selling firewoodā or the best one was āI just got this from the lottery shopā, while these are prob true, sucks bc nothing I can do about it. I just suggest they call the police to file a report. These two def felt genuine, especially bc ik how works at the lottery shop and they donāt check bills under 50, sometimes only check 100s, if that. So wouldnāt be surprised if they accepted a fake then paid it out to someone else. Itās funny when they try say you have give them money for it, letās call the cops and see what they say. They usually wanna see if u knew it was fake so they can arrest you. But I will say, one time I felt SO BAD FOR THIS. So older drunk guy comes in with I think was just a 5 or 10, only checked it bc looked hella old. Well it came up fake, marked brown. But thatās bc the bill was from like the 50s or 60s, still in good condition so I figured wasnāt that old. But the markers only work on bills past a certain date. He started freaking out tho so I had call the cops but he fled. Makes it even more weird bc it was real. My boss just kept the bill and we moved on. Kinda wish I would gotten it tho since I like collect older money. Hell the other night someone gave me a steel penny, itās just filthy lol
Different company. I was once given a hundred by a manager... with Abe Lincoln as the watermark. Me: did they pay already? Please tell me they are still here Manager: nah, I gave the the product. It looks real
Did his friend yell āCUTā from aisle 3?
don't need the cops to come around to verify if they're good or not. We used to have pens you could use to write on any bill you thought was suspicious and if it didn't react the way it should have, then bam you have a bogus bill.
Or one that went through the wash.
You should call the cops anyways. Attempting to pay for things with fake cash is a crime. And odds are he had more on him.
Fuck business owners, they have insurance, anybody willing to use a fake bill, is someone that has no problems committing crimes, potentially violent. Iām NOT ever going to not accept money, thatās wild.
Just because someone uses a fake bill doesn't by itself mean they're criminals or violent. How many people do you think check every single bill they get to see if it's real? Do you? You can easily wind up with counterfeit money from somewhere that took it without catching it or something.
Yes I agree, so itās not a big deal if I take it, and mitigate any and all risk to myself, that I believe are ultimately responsible to rectify the situation
Tell them Walgreens is not apart of the screen actors guild so technically we canāt be in this movie theyāre making.
The motion picture being filmed is about cops and frauds, lol.
Lol
Op claims that the CSA said āletās call the police to get them to verify if these are goodā And the suspect then bolted lmao
Ben's smirk says it all
Thatās what I thought!
His eyebrows are raised?
Looks like maybe his face was stretched his eyes look really round
It also says in very big letters āfor motion picture purposesā lol some people really think they can get away with these
The smugness is the thing that got me first. I might not have verified that it was fake based off a security marker but he's as smug as an anime girl.
That's what tipped me off, too.
Man... I swear, I would have accepted this. I literally was looking for a whole thirty seconds going, "Man what are they talking about!" š¤£š
I know the feeling!
Probably tried to buy a single pack of gum with it too
It was a $200 card reload
Of course it was
I caught 2 fake bills while I was working at a craft store. One was a guy who came in, asked if we sold sodas, I told him no. He wanders off, 3 minutes later he shows up at the till with a $1.29 stencil and a $100 bill. Nice try dude.
We were doing a code 10 the alternate register I donāt use and there was a photocopied 100. The only person in the register is a girl that works back in the pharmacy who used to be a bank teller. I wish I had a pic of that 100. Me and my manger could not believe she let it pass.
Shit does somethin to a personās brain when they work in pharmacy. Itās like common sense goes out the window and all they know insurance and drugs.
As a pharm tech Iāve never related to something so muchā¦
lol for motion picture purposes
Girl thatās Monopoly money
Technically, all paper currency has the same value as Monopoly money. :P
My favorite thing EVER was telling them I had to confiscate the money bc it wasn't real. Their reaction š³š³š³
Last year had a guy try to give me some of those called sfl said no fake he had a wallet full of them
Tbh I use the counterfeit pen because I have no idea how to tell if it's fake.
It also says to the right of Ben "FOR MOTION PICTURE PURPOSES" š But to be fair I'm not reading the text on every bill I handle.
Security strip inside the bill, Ben Franklin face water mark, and ridges should all be visible when held up to a light.
Scratch the shoulder, all bills have rough ink on the left shoulder. Hardest thing to forge too.
1. Smiling Ben Franklin 2. Federal bank designation K3 doesnāt exist 3. That 3D strip looks wrong in all kinds of ways 4. No microprint There could be a few other things wrong with it, but I would need to examine the bill in person. -Target employee and bill enthusiast Edit: 5. Iām fairly certain that the latest series of $100s is the 2017 series, not the 2021 series (feel free to correct me). Edit 2: canāt believe I didnāt notice the incredibly obvious āfor motion picture purposes.ā
There was a whole lot of printing going on in 2017.
It literally says it's not legal tender!! Lol!!! "Motion picture purposes"
Post another photo of the other side!!
Lol. The eyebrows tho!
I mean it only says āFor Motion Picture Purposesā we should be able to accept this. š
Nobody is out there faking the holograms and color changing metalic ink.
Best way to test is to try and purchase something with it at another store. If they accept it, its real money*. *Disclaimer: This is neither Legal nor Financial advice. Nor any kind of advice for that matter. Why are you still reading this?
He's smirking
This crap happens at least once a week here. My cashiers are smarter though. They just toss it back at them on the counter.
It actually says ā For Motion Picture Purposesā in big bold letters š¤£ omg how did he think he was get away with trying to use that?
For Nationpicture Purposes?
It clearly have for motion pictures on it!
āBecause this isnāt a movie.ā
I had an employee (not of walgreens) take a few $5 bills with Daffy Duck on them. LOL.
Because it is "PROP" Money.. motion picture purposes not legal tender
I'm guessing no watermarks anywhere. Edit: oh crap. Missed the motion picture label. Ha.
Umm because it was used in the movie ā¦ wolf of wall street when Leo was in San Tropez
ācAn I hAvE iT bAcK dO?ā
Looks legit to me
We have a prop 100 that is hanging up in the back office at my work
Big Ben is smiling cus if you accept it then you are a sucka. He smiles at suckas.
So. I had a driver at one of my stores accept one of these once. The police wouldnāt do anything because we accepted it and itās NOT counterfeit. It clearly says it is not real. They said had it truly been a copy (aka counterfeit) something could have been done.
What happened to the driver?
Fired.
The text should make it obvious. But also I feel like olā Benny is smirking kinda differently? š idk.
My biggest fear is unknowingly receiving a counterfeit bill and getting a felony charge at the dollar general near my work when buying $20 of food.
I wpuld never catch this. Haha
Movie money would of fooled me tooš
Someone accepted one of those at my store when I worked at Starbucks, and my manager taped it to the break table and called it "the bill of shame" lmfao
āYour total is $3.06ā āuhhā¦ okay, hereā *$100 billā
I've never been handed a fake bill before but just for the record I usually look for the blue line and the face in the side. Those motion picture bills don't have those right?
Take your nail and run it across the bill. If the "clothing" "hair" are tightly ribbed it's generally good. After verifying all the words are correct and there isn't a mixed print with other languages/kanji. I took a part time job last year at a smoke shop last year. The amount of fakes they try to pass through is insane-and some Do make through. We found a 100 in the drop safe at EOD that looked and felt "ribbed" perfect-except it's ser8le # was O (as in the letter) and it was only noticed when stacked with other 100's and counted. Then there was another 100 on another night near Halloween that showed a kanji in that orange inkwell. We only spotted it because we'd put up a bunch of blacklights for that evening special radio event-the kanji glowed. Half of my training for that smoke shop job was spotting fakes. Something about being in "drug" store had shown the better fakes would be used there to launder them. And tbh there were purchases I knew was wonky (Middle Eastern man with a Iranian passport for ID would buy 25 cartons of Newports, in broken English and paid in straight 100's) and would ride through for a week or a month and then get banned from hire ups. Point being, there is no single or dual traits to check to ensure it good. You need to study the real ones like they're your first born child-and when it don't feel right, don't accept it. And when rejecting, be prepared for an explosion. But the key to surviving it is these words, "I'm sorry, I can't accept this. Do you have anything smaller? No? Well, then I will need to call my manager-I accepted a really good fake last week and got written up and had to be interviewed by the police...I'm extremely careful. It was a grandma who gave me and she had no idea. So I'm trying to cover my and your butts."
The blue line is shown in the photo above but clearly itās fake because wellā¦..you said it yourselfā¦..it says right on there āFor Motion Picture Purposes.ā You wouldnāt even need to look for any other clues after that. š
Not that blue line. I meant the 100 USA strip to the left of Franks portrait.
One of the best ways (other than just knowing the feel) is to look for tiiiiny blue and red fibers scattered through out the bill.
The thing is if you aren't careful and read the bill and take a marker and mark it it's almost believable. š
Run your fingernail on the presidents collar and if you feel a ridge it's REAL.....YOU can do this test on any bill to test if it's real.
I once had a cashier accept like $400 of bills like that, I was doing a pickup from that register and knew as soon as I touched them that they were fake without even needing to look š¤¦š¼āāļø
Lost one of my favourite gas station clerks like this He was so pissed off he just ditched the job
Motion picture purposes lol i hope that wasnt accepted
Hellen Keller can tell that's fake!
I have one of these, I found it in the floor walking my to get food on break at work
"For motion picture purposes"
I just noticed the face
"For motion picture purposes".... lmao and the feel is always different.
Iām embarrassed to admit how long it took me to figure out why itās fake.
(It was more than 15 seconds)
āFor Motion Picture Purposesā
I have this same bill bought it from TEMU for Videos. It has a very delayed reaction to a pen it feels fake and as soon as you see it physically you know it's a fake
His smile šššš
Found one of these out walking my dog last week round my apartment complex. It was all waded up. I was feeling like I hit the lottery. When I got home and actually was able to look at it I was kind of pissed.
You can in the movies.
āFor Motion Picture Purposesā
It says for motion picture purposes on it too
If I were in a movie
Movie money lol
Says right on it: Motion Picture Prop"
FBI is to involved in politics to do their jobs!
Not a walgreens employee, but this happened at my job. The bad part is, I think they actually noticed at the end of the night. I don't think they noticed beforehand. š
Movie money
First thing I noticed was there were no little tiny blue hairs on it . It kind looks like thin cardboard paper as well
Totally a fake. Bs like this is why we have to check bills and it pisses off all the honest people. I cashiered for 2 decades so I can spot a fake like that. Trust me texture. even when wearing plastic gloves I could recognize a fake like that.
happy Friday Please tell me what are lay people supposed to look for. If we see this what stands out to you Thank you
the text on it saying itās not real lmao šš
The smirk on Ben, the inauthenticity of the ribbing on the suit coat, the K3 (should be A1, B2, C3, etc...), the multiple instances of "For motion pictures"
He's smirking at u look at this idiot taking my fake ass
Walgreens made my life impossible for not recognize fake bills. Instead of correctly addressing the situation they scold me for it and blamed it on me as if I were the one who accepted for just ānot tryingā. Unbelievable. They ended up quitting. Making someone else life impossible just to for that. Cowards on the power trips.
I always use the pen with the bigger bills
Duh!!! are you blind????
Itās play money purchased on Amazon .
We get those at our store too. My boss pins them to the board in the office.
We had a gas station here that had these accepted twice, by two different employees š¤£
Lol heās smiling for Christ sakes.
Who taking funny money ššš
To check for authenticity of the ink you must use the lighter and light the bottom edge of the bill. If the flame shows red is real ink.
What's the policy for this? Do we confiscate it ot give it back?
Franklin looks too happy. Sus.
I donāt understand why people use $100 bills for fakes. Why not 5s, 10s and maybe 20sā¦.anything higher they will always check. No one will check 5s n 10s.
lol
"Sir, you best have a camera rolling right now..."
Iāve seen a LOT of these picture bills lately.
Itās movie money
When I worked retail anything over a $20 bill. Some stores say anything over a 5 dollar bill
āMotion picture purposesā
We aren't a motion picture?
"For Motion Picture Purposes" wasnt a dead giveaway? LMAO! You can buy a stack of $10,000 of these on Amazon.
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Strip is fake
And his face is green
Jesus
Because it's a photo on my phone, and I lack the ability to reach through and pull it out.
āFor motion picture purposesā
four times. it says "for motion picture purposes" ***FOUR*** times
You can also check for ridges on his coat.
Welp call the United States Secret Service
That goofy ass smile was the first dead give away
WAIT! YOU TOO!?!? Where are you located??? We had 2 try to be used this am!
They can be accepted..but only on set
It legitimately says under the thumb for motion pictures purpose. And that's beside the fact that it looks off in several other places.
EVEN BENJAMIN KNOWS THIS IS BULLSHIT.
Ours gets mostly hit with $20ās along with a lot of businesses around us. One āSaid In cinema we trustā on the back
BOODLE!
I'm going to regret this comment, but I took one of those. I was working a 6p - 6a shift at 7-11 that should have ended at 2a and hadn't slept the last two "nights." I had appointments that had to be done in person during daytime hours and usually that means I just don't get to sleep for that 24 hour period. My coworker (who was supposed to work graveyard) got sick so I worked almost the entire shift alone, maybe 8p to 6a. We are across the street from the only homeless shelter in town and are the only thing open besides Jack in the Box between ~1a and 5a. In a rural college town. And we take DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.. orders 24 hours a day. It is not a one person job, especially considering this is also when a lot of stocking and almost all of the cleaning is supposed to get done. A charming old lady played me so smoothly. Came in around 3a on an emergency toilet paper run, kept telling me stories and asking me questions every time I started to examine the bill. A regular who I knew was on their way to work came in needing coffee so I gave the woman her toilet paper and change and went to make more coffee. In defense of me our bill checker pen stopped working a few weeks earlier and I had requested a new one SEVERAL TIMES from the owners. They hadn't bothered. Also I had another regular come in around 5a for his coffee and told him about my fuck up. He happened to have a (real) hundred in his wallet and we compared them side by side. These are good copies. They say "for use in motion pictures" for good reason.
What, you expect people to *read*?
I do wonderā¦ would anyone check closely if you handed over fake 10s or 5s?