• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Fun fact, it’s not counterfeiting if the denomination doesn’t exist, so the charge would be theft by deception. In the early 2000s, there were several cases of people using a $200 bill and getting change back on their purchases, and not able to be charged with counterfeiting.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6491668

    https://www.deseret.com/2001/2/1/19566991/phony-200-bill-with-bush-picture-used-in-kentucky/

    Police in Kentucky are looking for a customer who succeeded in paying for a $2 order at a fast-food restaurant with a phony $200 bill featuring a picture of President George W. Bush and a depiction of the White House with a lawn sign saying, “We like broccoli.”

    Authorities say the female cashier at a Dairy Queen in Danville even gave the culprit $198 in real money as change.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      5 months ago

      I’ve seen those Bush bills. I had one where he was visibly beaten up and the seal with the country name instead said “The Embarrassed States of America.”

      The only way I could see someone actually accepting those bills is if they literally didn’t even look at them because they were so obviously jokes.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah that sounds more like fraud (not saying it is because I have no idea, but it sounds like it would be fraud)