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Counterfeit $20 bill in the Tip Bucket?
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Any pictures you can post? Get one of those marker pens from a cashier and give it a test?
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Spend it and you could end up getting charged. Take it to the bank or police and check.
Tack it up in your rehearsal space as a trophy.
Clip it to the tip jar, and leave it there as a suggestion..,
Give it back to your clueless BL and make him give you a real 20.
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Cops or bank.
But just FYI, if it IS counterfeit the person who put it in the jar likely was unaware that it was. Because they didn’t get any real money in exchange.
I was on a gig where we got paid in cash, hotel bar in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. One night guy comes in, sits at the bar. Buys a drink, talking to the bar tender. Pays with a $20, gets change. Orders another drink, pays with a $20, gets change. Does that twice more. So he ends up passing 4 counterfeit bills getting about $40 in real money in change for an hour and a half’s work.
But just FYI, if it IS counterfeit the person who put it in the jar likely was unaware that it was. Because they didn’t get any real money in exchange.
I was on a gig where we got paid in cash, hotel bar in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. One night guy comes in, sits at the bar. Buys a drink, talking to the bar tender. Pays with a $20, gets change. Orders another drink, pays with a $20, gets change. Does that twice more. So he ends up passing 4 counterfeit bills getting about $40 in real money in change for an hour and a half’s work.
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No need to violate federal laws to put that bill to use.
Leave it in the tip jar so other people see it and are encouraged to tip good.
Just hope it does not encourage them to put more counterfeit bills)
Leave it in the tip jar so other people see it and are encouraged to tip good.
Just hope it does not encourage them to put more counterfeit bills)
I used to work for Xerox in the early 90's when very high quality color print engines were coupled with high dpi digital scanners to make full color copiers.
Once a year, we'd have a meeting with field agents of the Secret Service. The SS is part of the Treasury Department and is always involved in counterfeit operations, whether some hack in a bedroom with his HP, all the way to tremendously sophisticated worldwide schemes: North Korea is one of the largest counterfeiters of US currency in the world.
These copiers would make really good looking money. Essentially you were legal if it was the wrong size, or the correct dimensions in an obviously wrong color. Right size, right color(s), and depending on the amounts you made and circulated, you would go to jail for a longer sentence than if you murdered somebody. They're SERIOUS about this stuff.
No problem with you winding up innocently with a random bogus 20, but if there's a lot more of them showing up in your area, there's Feds with their ear to the ground.
One day, I had a brand new 20 I got at the bank, and I made an enlarged copy of it, about the size of a license plate. I took it home, gave it to my wife and said, 'See, I told you I'd make Big Money working for Xerox!'
Once a year, we'd have a meeting with field agents of the Secret Service. The SS is part of the Treasury Department and is always involved in counterfeit operations, whether some hack in a bedroom with his HP, all the way to tremendously sophisticated worldwide schemes: North Korea is one of the largest counterfeiters of US currency in the world.
These copiers would make really good looking money. Essentially you were legal if it was the wrong size, or the correct dimensions in an obviously wrong color. Right size, right color(s), and depending on the amounts you made and circulated, you would go to jail for a longer sentence than if you murdered somebody. They're SERIOUS about this stuff.
No problem with you winding up innocently with a random bogus 20, but if there's a lot more of them showing up in your area, there's Feds with their ear to the ground.
One day, I had a brand new 20 I got at the bank, and I made an enlarged copy of it, about the size of a license plate. I took it home, gave it to my wife and said, 'See, I told you I'd make Big Money working for Xerox!'
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I tried to deposit cash in an ATM. 2 bills were rejected. Someone screwed me. I wouldn’t try to spend it.
Apparently someone didn't find your performance to be authentic enough 
Bank will mark your bill with one of those pens if you take it in. If it’s counterfeit they’re not giving it back.
