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Twenty Poond notes: investigation after ATM dispenses toy money
The Yorkshire building society is to investigate how two fake £20 notes were issued by a cash machine outside its Lancaster branch.
The investigation was prompted after the Guardian’s media editor, Jim Waterson, and a friend tried to use the cash to pay for breakfast in a London cafe last weekend. The waiter refused to accept the notes – which bear the words “Twenty Poond” on the reverse side and said they were “obviously fake”. Waterson’s friend had received the notes among £80 she had withdrawn from an ATM at the Lancaster branch of the Yorkshire the previous weekend.
“My friend got the cash out and didn’t think twice – after all, who closely examines banknotes when they come out of a high street ATM? But when we looked at them more closely we noticed it says Twenty Poond on them. It looks as though they were designed to be used in theatres, or as toys. It even states on them “This note is play money”,” says Waterson.
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Notes the same as those uncovered are for sale on eBay, listed as Party, Realistic Prop Money with the warning NOT FOR USE. They are sold in bundles of 10 notes for £14.99.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/12/twenty-poond-notes-investigation-after-atm-dispenses-toy-money
The investigation was prompted after the Guardian’s media editor, Jim Waterson, and a friend tried to use the cash to pay for breakfast in a London cafe last weekend. The waiter refused to accept the notes – which bear the words “Twenty Poond” on the reverse side and said they were “obviously fake”. Waterson’s friend had received the notes among £80 she had withdrawn from an ATM at the Lancaster branch of the Yorkshire the previous weekend.
“My friend got the cash out and didn’t think twice – after all, who closely examines banknotes when they come out of a high street ATM? But when we looked at them more closely we noticed it says Twenty Poond on them. It looks as though they were designed to be used in theatres, or as toys. It even states on them “This note is play money”,” says Waterson.
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Notes the same as those uncovered are for sale on eBay, listed as Party, Realistic Prop Money with the warning NOT FOR USE. They are sold in bundles of 10 notes for £14.99.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/12/twenty-poond-notes-investigation-after-atm-dispenses-toy-money
(Building Society = Savings and Loan)
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