“legal” tender or a counterfeit 10?
i went to the atm and pulled out 0 in twenties. i used 2 twenties to buy lunch for me and a friend at a national restaurant and get and coins as change. 1 hour later, i went to a regional convenience store/gas station and make a purchase with the bill i got in my change earlier. they use a counterfeit pen and declare my ‘bad’ and ask me where i have been shopping. they keep the 10, ask for my name and address AND i still have to pay for my items.
as i surf for info, i learn a couple of things… these pens are not completely accurate (between 80% and 98%) and can give a false reading… and yet, a merchant can retain the "suspect" bill. if the secret service deems it is not counterfeit, they return it to the MERCHANT… what about the innocent consumer passing LEGAL tender.
it’s not the $$$$… it’s the principle.
i don’t get it… the secret service doesn’t recommend (or even mention) using these pens as a means of identifying bad bills on their web site.
first of all, the secret service site actually instructs merchants who suspect a bill is phoney to confiscate it… so, i couldn’t get it back (part of my frustration)… as a law-abiding citizen who has already called the secret service to get their sunday answering service… i am not worried either… but when a bill is returned to the merchant, who holds them accountable to return it… let alone acknowledge they got it back (sorry, i did not get the serial number)… sounds like the honor system.
i SHOULD have gotten a receipt…. but i was a little rattled… being innocent, i had never researched my rights as potential couterfeit-passer…
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The merchant should have turned it over to the cops. If you want your ten back, follow up with the merchant and the cops.
If some store clerk told me I had passed counterfeit currency, I’d immediately call the Secret Service myself. I have nothing to fear; I’m a demonstrated good guy.
I would NOT leave the store without the bill in question, or a signed receipt for it. I turn such things over to law enforcement officers, not officious cash register jockeys.
A store clerk isn’t law enforcement, and has no right of confiscation. They could also take their request for my name and address and shove it into a private orifice of their choice.
For all I know, the guy got a counterfeit detection pen at Staples and put a regular marker point on it.
I had not heard of this one yet, but nothing shocks me. we see all around us the things that are happening. This is the last days ppl. LEts all be forwarned about whats Going on.
Stay with God, keep praying, and keep your eyes opened and stay in prayer. God is the only protection we have.
Sorry about what happened to you. This is incredible. If they want to investigate whre that money started at, ok, but in the meantime, give me my money back with their own money. How would they ever learn where this bill originated from? Not only that, by the time the govt makes new money, the bad guys already have a way around it and it goes on and on and on. costing us a fortune. I saw when they do catch the ppl who do this, then make them pay, not everyone else.
I dont say be cruel to them, as a Chrsitian I dont believe in that. But do more than some little fine and six months in jail.
Make the punishment fit the crime. We the american public have compassion for those not of God and we pray for them, but we the american public are also tired of having to pay for what others do> Lets hold only the criminal responsible and let their punishment fit their crime, and stop harrassing the rest of us that are innocent. A few years ago I remember reading that a guy went to pay for a very spendy item with cash and they wouldnt take it. Need a way to trace that kind of money. Well, is this all predicted in the Bible or what??? YEP LETS STAY ALL PRAYED UP FOLKS>>> thanks for the warning about this one. something new every day..