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(10,996 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)I suffered identity theft. Then, I was forced to draw all my money out of the bank - in cash - to pay my bills. Each time I withdrew money, Wells Fargo Bank gave me three odd looking hundred dollar bills. When I held them up to the light, the nearly invisible faces on the right part of the bill were radically different. When I cashed the $100. bills at a certain store - where cigarettes were cheap - I noticed the clerk was working from two different cash registers. When I held these twenties up to the light, the hidden faces were even more out of register. I told the FBI agent that I thought that I was being used to transport counterfeit money over state lines, since my bank was in Alabama, while I was living in Mississippi.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)PSPS
(15,321 posts)If you have bogus notes, call the local police or the Secret Service.
http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml
Note that if you surrender a counterfeit bill, you don't get a real one in return. That's why banks always make sure that any counterfeit bill a teller takes somehow always ends up in some customer's night deposit.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)The Secret Service, like the Coast Guard, was part of the Treasury Department. When founded in 1865, the job was to fight counterfeiting. Later on, duties expanded to fighting fraud against the government, the KKK and, in 1901, protecting the president.
Now, they're DHS, but the job is the same. Give them a call.
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICES
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)I know the only job of the Secret Service is to protect The Commander in Chief. There are no Secret Service offices in the Southeastern or Eastern regions of the USA. I AM GOING TO A PRINTER AND HAVE THEM PRINT OUT 1,000 COPIES OF THIS COMPLAINT TOMORROW ONLINE NSA IDIOTS AND LEAVE THEM EVERYWHERE! Check my record for "Love Letters to Kelly." I'm not bluffing NSA and FBI online idiots!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Also, the service was originally founded to stop counterfeiting; the Presidential security detail only came 50 years later.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Wasn't this posted already?
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)This should get a DUzy!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)a psychotic break. So it really isn't funny.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11359079
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025621379#post18
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and I'm not a horrible person, so despite the fact that I made an off remark, I hope they get the help they need.
I made an insensitive remark, and it was uncalled for.
I apologize for that.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Is worldwide economic collapse funny?
Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)I'll take two, please. One for now and one for later, because that has GOT to leave a mark.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)to Chinese satellite teams and organized crime syndicates, I will drive all over the place and distribute printed documents, which will destroy the economy of the USA! You online NSA and FBI agents have no idea what kind of support that I can muster for this activity.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,996 posts)marlakay
(13,282 posts)I work in a small shop, she said she has never got a bad bill before.
I did check when I had part time job at bank though.
when I worked in cashiering at AAA in CA they had us check all big bills.
So I am thinking bigger places in bigger cities check more...makes sense.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)I don't know why; but this trend is growing rapidly.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)than they've ever been?
It IS the job of the Secret Service to guard the country's money supply against counterfeiting. It's why the Secret Service was created.