Pob

I asked my mam to get some of my savings out of the bank yesterday. 60 quid in 20 pound notes. Two of them are fake.
I only found out as my local shop, took one of the notes off me. Saying its a fake.
Ive phoned the bank and they won't give a refund, saying they check all the money that goes into cash points.
Does anyone know how to spot a fake note? I'm pi@@ed off because i can't afford to have this money going missing!
Anyone experienced this, also?

Christian and Beccy

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Your Mum scammed you. She had a couple of fakes and did a snidey swap.

fuzzy

do you trust your mum?has she swapped a couple of duff notes from her purse?
if a shop spotted them its unlikely a bank wouldnt have imo.

RichieST

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I agree, kick to the cunt!

C4llyT

Cash points often have fake notes, bit off really.

fuzzy

imagine getting skanked from your mum

mechanic28

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spend them somewhere else

Pob

No, she hasn't had any money since monday. She's waiting to get paid next week.

ballin

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CAB ?

Ginge !

theres loads of fake 20's about, seen a few of em, there drenched round london at the moment !!! fucking loads of em ............. i heard

turbolee

get a cab for £2 or £3 pound n change the note with them put the note in to a change machine in a arcade in town are order a sandwich from snap van at work and give it them

OldDan

Banks don't check em. They go through a machine and even those arn't too great.

You won't get a refund either.

Best way to spot is to feel the paper - rip through the silver line (it will go thru if fake).

Fake notes are now coming with UV reactive light on so look just like real - but if you compare the note to a real one, the quality is shite.

Oh, check if the queen has a tash.

999

theres quite a few about down here, i held one in my hand and a real one in other i can honest say i couldnt tell the difference, paper felt the same it even registered on my money counter same weight

dojj

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i'd tell you a tale about fake notes, but it would get me arrested

tell the bank the money they gave you was dud and you want proper money in return, kick up a fuss, it will be sorted

Big G

Go into the bank and see them,
I got some duds a few year back from the machine at Asda, I went upto the Halifax who's machine it was and although they said the machine was Asda's concern, after me making abit of a rumpus in the branch they gave me a refund and I got on my way,
I didnt even bank at the Halifax either.

mrjenrst

the counterfeiter's can reproduce every security measure bar
2 of them.

Anyone know what 2?

The foil can be done and the watermark is child's play but what's the 2?

Big G

Use a sensor exel instead of a Mach3 for Lizzies tash?

mrjenrst

Erm.. ok so there's 3!

Ginge !

the paper is cloth and not paper so will feel different and also its a powder rather than a in so rub it on paper and it should mark the other paper

also serial numbers should be checked too

if seen the super notes and they are good but not that good after they been folded a few times,,,, they start to look like suger paper

Cragrat

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different serial numbers,microtext messages,latent images,optically variable ink or holograms ??

biggiejody

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the old people smell, and raised letters?

**Claire**

Apparently it's the £20 watermark above the queens head and the raised £20 in the bottom right of the note

Diamonds.

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just spend it elsewhere. keep em for a busy night out in the pubs. i used to get rid of all mine in a pubs

D16PJM

impossible i work on these machines and they dish money out by the thickness of the note, i £10 note is a different thickness to a £20, so fake money on crap paper can not come out the machine as its rejected as a bad note.

Pob

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bankn...ecurity_20.htm

I still can't tell!

I was born a muppet

Andy_R

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we had perfect looking ones floating about a few months back, the only tell tale was in the feel of the paper - it wasnt quite perfect, they were £20's too.

**Claire**

Also, if you put a new £20 note under an ultraviolet light at the top there is a harlequin mark on it and on an old £20 note it will show a £20 sign under the ultraviolet light in the left hand side of the note

Less.

Shit loads around here too

bigchez

The ink in the block at the bottom will leave a trace on white paper when rubbed if its a real note and............

Ginge

For some reason i have seen a huge influx of old style Genuine £5 notes recently the amount i have turned away from people is silly.

Ginge

mrjenrst

Yes indeedy and the raised bank of england on the top.
Everything else can be forged.

Everything else has been done successfully enough to convince the pro's.

And i'll give my next lesson tomorow in money forgery tomorow by showing you how to file down 50p pieces and turn them in 20p pieces

Psycho Warren

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Personally i would have refused to let a shop take the money off me if they are claiming its fake!! I wouldnt put it past some shops to say its fake just to screw you!!

What legal authority do retailers have to hold your money like that??

mrjenrst

It's the law mate. All retailers should check and retain any forged bank note while they call the filth.

Ginge !

paper cant be faked either

never noticed the raised letters before but the dry powder is one that ive always used to test

i used to rip the note for the foil till i seen a fake do it !

dojj

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if you were handed a fiver, you wouldn't put it through the same scuritiny as a twenty would you, so they tend to get faked much more often

i've seen bundles and bundles of fake notes, literaly bundles of them like they dish out to banks and stuff and tagged and everything, so if they are bunched and tagged like that it's very easy to pass them off as new

tenners look better crumpled up by twenties tend to look much more realisitic if they are crisp and not scrunched up to fuck when you hand them over

col cos1

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get into a shop where polish work,they wont know the diffrence

fuzzy

thatll be 90% of the shops in the town then

Stephen_B

mate of mine reckoned he could get hold of these really good fakes that pass most tests. He reckoned he could get them for 12 quid note

Big G

Has anyone ever checked a note given them by a shop,
It did it in an offy once as the guy used to check and double check your notes, so I checked the 1 he gave me with change with a pen, he threw a proper wobbly

orionmojo

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I hade a note refused in a pub a few weeks ago and she wouldn't give it back to me and threatened to call the police! WTF! i told her to cos she'd robbed me of £20.

basically i told her in no nice way to shove her pint, pub, £20 and i'll never darken her doorway again. i cant afford to loose £20 so some old splitarse just cos she says so