I wonder how many of us have unknowlingly paid for something with a counterfeit bill

[Siwsan]

I know I don't scrutinize any paper money I might get in change or from the bank (who I ASSUME has already checked the validity of what they are giving me). And even if I did, some counterfeiters are so good, I'd likely never catch on. Most places habitually use one of those markers to check the money, but not all.

I've never heard if they checked any other paper money George Floyd had on him, or at his home.

[tritsofme]

1. Coming across fake bills many years ago it was very obvious.

These days I use cash so infrequently that I doubt it.

[Siwsan]

2. I use cash at the gas station and cannabis store

I worry about 'skimmers' at the gas pump, and cannabis stores only take cash.

And when I used to go out and eat, I always used cash if it was a place where I'd have to hand over my card to pay for the meal. I've read too many stories about people who had their information purloined.

[CrispyQ]

7. Years ago I had a friend who worked at a restaurant & she told me to pay cash when you can,

but if you have to use a credit card, always check your card when they return it & make sure it's your card.

I don't use my smart phone for much more than games anymore, but I love that I can get text alerts whenever any of my cards are charged.

[ratchiweenie]

3. That's what I keep wondering. Do they know that he knew it was a counterfeit bill?

He's dead so they can't ask him.

[soothsayer]

6. They scan 'em

[ratchiweenie]

15. Yes, but did Floyd know it was a counterfeit bill? I don't think they know for sure

and he's dead so he can't tell them.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Doubtful

If he willfully passed a bad bill, why would he have hung around for the cops to get there?
It's plausible that he stayed because he assumed the cops would ask him where HE might have gotten it.
I think it's likely Floyd was a victim(!) of a phony bill, not a perpetrator.

[ecstatic]

14. He didn't leave the scene immediately, which is a good indication that he didn't.

Who would linger around the scene after that?

[PCIntern]

4. I have

I had a counterfeit 20 many years ago. I got it out of my bank’s atm and went back to them with the bill because it felt funny. Apparently it’s very common. They gave me a real one in exchange. At least they said it was real....😄

[Ocelot II]

5. Apparently it was, not that it really matters at this point.

But the store had been given a counterfeit $20 just before Floyd came in, so they scanned the bill.

Mr. Floyd often visited the store to buy cellphone credits. In an interview, Mr. Abumayyaleh provided new details of the moments before Mr. Floyd’s fatal encounter with four Minneapolis Police officers, saying that another man had tried to use a fake $20 bill minutes before Mr. Floyd walked into the store.

The first man handed the bill to an older employee who had worked at the shop for several years and used a special marker to determine that the bill was counterfeit, Mr. Abumayyaleh said. The employee refused the sale and handed the bill back to the man, who left.

A few minutes later, Mr. Floyd walked in and gave a $20 bill to a teenage clerk, who did not immediately recognize the bill as fake. After a machine scan determined that the bill was counterfeit, the young clerk followed Mr. Floyd outside, asking him to return the items he had bought, but he refused, according to a transcript of the clerk’s call to 911.

“He’s only been in the States for about a year,” Mr. Abumayyaleh said of the teenage clerk, who is no longer working at the store. “It’s his first time probably ever calling the police.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/cup-foods-minneapolis-george-floyd.html

Whether Floyd knew it was counterfeit is another question. I never check bills to see if they're counterfeit, and I don't know if I could even tell.

[MichMan]

8. What are the odds two customers in s row would have counterfeit bills?

[Midnight Writer]

10. A couple of years ago, I found $1600 in cash in a public park.

I was walking my dog, and it was just past dusk. I saw some paper scattered on the ground near a trash can, so I went over to pick it up and throw it away. The first piece i picked up was a $20 bill.

I gathered up the rest, looked around, and didn't see any other people in the area.

My brother lives near the park, so I walked over to his house to show him what I found. We laid it all out on his kitchen table and counted it. $1600.

Then he said "This doesn't feel right. The paper doesn't feel like money". He pulled out some bills from his wallet, and they were clearly not the same feel.

I took the money to the police station, and they sent a cop in to talk to me. I handed him the money, he looked it over, and said "Yeah, this has been run off on a printer. We've been seeing a lot of this lately."

Then he took the money, folded it, put it in his pocket, and said "Thanks for bringing this in. I'll send in a report to the Feds".

He didn't even take my name, didn't ask me where I found it, didn't seem to consider checking it for prints or anything like that.

After I left, I got to wondering. He stuck it in his pocket? Didn't take my name? Didn't ask questions? Did I just hand a guy $1600?

Anyway, he was very nonchalant about the whole deal.

I wonder what would have happened if I were black?

[ecstatic]

11. I rarely use cash, so I'd probably get conned and unintentionally con

someone else. My sister paid cash for items at a Walgreens and was given counterfeit change. When she realized it, she went back and the employee quickly gave her a real bill. I can't remember if it was 10 or 20 dollars. SMH.

[dsc]

12. I haven't been told that I have

but other than lately who could be sure. I pay for nearly all with debit or credit card.

[Siwsan]

13. I do, now, for the most part

But I always pay cash at the gas station and the cannabis store takes cash, only. And I never hand over my card at any restaurant. Unless they have a card swipe at the table, I pay cash.

[roamer65]

16. I have been fooled only once.

Was in a hurry and threw the cash in the passenger seat. Later I saw the $10 note was obviously a printer note.

NO ONE should die over a possibly counterfeit note. NO ONE.