In the past 6 weeks there has been 2 incidents of clients passing off fake money to providers. One in Philadelphia the other in Washington DC.

Are things getting that bad in the economy that clients have to resort to dirty tricks for free service ?

Providers you should take your donation to the bathroom and count and make sure the currency is not fake before providing service. It think this problem goes on more than it is reported.

Apparently in the DC incident the provider checked the money afterwords and the ink came off the fake currency....

Who is to say the hobbyists knew the money they were donating was counterfeit. How many of us scrutinize every bill larger than a $10 we put into our wallets or purse.

   FR.

If one of a stack of Jacksons is counterfeit, a presumption of innocence is certainly appropriate. If all, or a substantial majority, of the bills are fake, the opposite presumption is equally appropriate.

Anyone who got their money from a bank teller or ATM should not have had a donation that was all fake money.  Financial institutions do a reasonably good job of screening money before putting it back into circulation.  The two clients who passed off the fake money knew what they were doing.  Even if the service was crappy, their acts are disgraceful.

I am mouth from toronto. I have had two times a 100 dollar bill that was fake given to me by bank intessa--(an italien bank) at the counter.  So it is quite possible for a bank to put phony money back in the system

start carrying around those brown markers to check those twenties and hundreds, eh?

Hugs,
Ciara

the point, I think.  What do Italians care or know about U.S. money?

Having worked the wrong side of the room for a while I say ay contraire.

Illegal transactions are a great place to spread bad money and will continue to be used by rings.

Hard to complain to the SS about the 3Mill in fake $100s you just accepted for thosse kilos of horse....

It's been terrible for a couple of years now.

Not that the bad economy has anything to do with passing counterfeit bills though. As another poster already stated, what better place to pass them?

I in no way condone this.

I had the same experience in Boston... providers should be really carefull, as it's no the firt time that happens there