Ocean City police are encouraging citizens to closely examine currency by looking carefully at the money being exchanged. When receiving a $50 or $100 bill for a very small purchase, examine the currency. Often times, suspects will pass the counterfeit bill to exchange it for real currency, not necessarily to purchase big-ticket items. Also, business owners are reminded that counterfeit detection pens very often generate false results. Counterfeiters can use bleached genuine currency or coat counterfeit notes to prevent the proper chemical reactions.
In addition, the Federal Reserve Board offers these tips to detect suspicious or counterfeit currency:
- Feel the paper. Genuine U.S. currency has a unique feel. The note should feel slightly rough to the touch. If the currency feels different than what you are used to, examine it closer.
- Tilt the note back and forth to observe the color-shifting ink in the right-hand corner of denominations $10 or higher. Most bills will shift from copper to green.
- Check the watermark and security thread by holding the currency up to a light. A watermark should be visible from both sides and will match the portrait or denomination. A security thread should also be visible from both sides and match the denomination. When held to UV light, the security thread will glow a unique color.
4 comments:
Aquanet will fool the counterfeit pen, so will a lemon juice soak.
Counterfeit pen also will mark yellow on newspaper. Just saying...
A place in China is selling replica $100 and they look very real, paper is treated to fool the pens, and even have the strip and watermark in them. Ebay banned them, but they are still selling on the internet.
And be sure to check the pictures on the bills. If it's a woman's picture, it's either fake or the customer is a time traveler.
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