Could you spot a fake note?

Originally Posted by Viney

The easiest way to check if a note is real is to burn it. It will produce black smoke with a purple flame!

I wouldnt want to do that for fear of burning actual cash..!

Easy really! If you cant tell by touch try to remember bank notes are made from cotton not paper and dont contain any starch hence the UV tests carried out in shops and bars etc.

nb650

I do that as part of my current job, we get a fair few over a month, some are really good and some are so obviously fake it's untrue .

I have seen fake notes pass a UV test and real ones fail so that's no guarantee!

I'm very good at spotting fakes as I worked in a pub for 6 years, take-away for 4 years and in retail for 1 year. I also have some undesirable friends who MAY have come into contact with various fakes from time to time!

Regards

[dizzyblonde]

I've worked in many pubs, and handled many many fake notes. You can feel them. Fake ones don't have a raised print, admittedly there are good ones out there, but I can usually spot em

I was given a fake five pound note in my change when buying my lunch once. I couldn't take it back though because I had already walked out the shop so there was no way to prove it came from there. I didn't look closely at the time, but it was pretty obvious.

Anyway, I kept in in my wallet for a while figuring it could be good for a joke. Walking home from work when I lived in Hackney, this freaky, high off his t!ts, drug addict, comes running across the road, grabs my jacket and says "give us some money, bro". I try to keep walking, but he doesn't let go, instead starts shaking me, and constantly repeating "give us some money, bro" about 2 inches from my face. So I gave him the fake fiver and he ran off happy and presumably to attempt to buy his next hit!

Seemed like karma - reintroducing the fake currency back into the criminal industries that created it!

Prob already said but havent read it, on a new 20 in the rh corner of one side there is loads of little 20's, they are slightly raised, thats an easy way to tell