bank gave me a fake $20 bill
 

So I went to buy a pack of smokes yesterday, give this lady the bill and she's like, you have any other bills. I'm like, excuse me?
She goes, I don't trust this one and throws it back at me.....so I figure the bitch is a moron and pay with the credit card. Then I went for a coffee with a couple of friends, and while I'm telling the whole story to my friend, the counter girl hears me and offers to take the bill to the back, where there's a special machine that checks the bills and what do you know, IT IS FAKE. The funny thing is I took out that bill from a bank machine the day before that.....can this really happen?

FUCKED. :feels-hot I want my 20 bucks back

you should keep it and hang on to it

After she refused your fake $20, she took your credit card? That's pretty funny...

What bank did you get it from?

TD

Strange...

You should contact the branch. They may exchange it for you.

i would keep it as a souvenir to remind me to never trust banks

thats fucked, go see them asap and explain what happened!

Get your receipt from the bank - go to your branch and tell them to check the bill - tell them you got it from their bank machine & that you want it changed since more than one person has told you it's fake: they will take it back, send it to their central cash and then the RCMP - your information will also be taken in order for the RCMP to contact you if necessary.

I generally count my money in front of the machine - so their cameras (when they have one) can get a look at the serial numbers before I go - JUST IN CASE - don't want to be accused of anything nor fucked over my hardearned cash.

The bank just may call the secret service on your ass if you try to exchange it, thinking you may be trying to scam them. Depends how fucked they are. Just forget the 20. Move on with your life.:2 cents:

fight the bank for 20 dolla !

yeah

I don't think the Secret Service would be of much help to a Canadian bank...

lol prolly not

Dont waist your time with the bank, go to a small gass station and buy a pack of gum...

exactly

great idea. just pass the fake cash on to some other sucker.
that would be the asshole's way out.

literally passing the buck, eh?

If you didn't realize it was fake, then someone else will think the same. :2 cents:

thats probably what i would do, but im a dick :1orglaugh

dude, he got it from an ATM. Its not like he has a factory printing the shit...damn you have to be guilty of something lol!
besides secret service isnt an issue in canada

i once got a fake $50 bill from TD as well.

That's strange... :mad:

Go to the nearest police station and ask for change for a 20.

Either that, or throw the thing away.

Thats sad dude

Sell it on Ebay along with your story line ; )

If that happens in the US... you eat it. ;-) No one will exchange it if you tell them. So shred it and forget it. No doubt Canada has that very same law... or the country would go broke real quick. :glugglug

nope, they won't, if it is fake, you are out $20

You ain't getting your money back and if you go to the bank they will keep the bill. Sorry to bust your bubble.

Just spend it in a dark bar...

Report the bank to the police for a felony offense, and give them the bill. We'll see how fast they exchange it.

funny story ... You should go to the bank and explain to them what happed there might be more fake money they have there...

Fucked

You should sue the bank for being "overly counterfeit".

UPDATE: forget it guys, I left the bill over at my mother's house when I was explaining her the story, well FUCK, she mixed up the fake bill with the real ones and spent it on groceries.....

and I wanted to keep it just for the heck of it.....

whatever your mom just wanted $20

I have already said if before

dollars are useless these days :mad:

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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh Well, now the store has it. That is good! You don't have to worry bout it anymore!

jDoG

damn man, you think the bank is going to belive you?

I just came from the supermarket and the cashier gave me a fake $20 bill.

We're calling the cops on your mom.

My bank gave me a fake once before... and i went to the bank the next day and said

"yesturday you gave me this 20$ bill, its a fake"

they checked it out and sayed

"sorry, here is a new one"

not too difficult....

I find it hard to believe your bank gave you a fake $20. Money exchanged within banks go through thourough processes. Theres a very slight chance this could happen. I know what its like to be hastled by the FBI, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and other investigators. When i was 14 I was arrested in a counterfit money ring here. I happened to have some counterfit money on me that I had received from someone I knew, (unknowingly), in my wallet. Was with few friends at the mall and my buddy took a $20 out and handed it to the cashier, chick yelled "this is counterfit, this is counterfitt, call security, call security". We didnt know what to think and naturally being 14 and scared we bolted outside only to be surrounded on all 4 sides by mall security. Got interrogated by them and a punk ass cop. I was interrogated while having my father present by the US Secret Service and local FBI the next day. I had thought i also received the money from the bank and tried explaining this to them. They explained to me that this is NOT possible and that all money received is ran through machines for testing along with other processes. Ended up going to Juvy and then got 450 hours community service and was put on probation till I was 18. Ended up getting watched by them for a while, phones tapped and more. Nasty mess..

If i were you id just toss that bill in the trash unless you want to let it be known to them and get hassled regardless of your innocence.

just fence it off.....

This is actually standard policy from some banks. The fake bill is checked for fingerprints and the people who handled it are interviewed. I'm not sure if they're as successful prosecuting lone incidents like this than they are with huge counterfeiting operations. Nevertheless, the Secret Service goes through this process. It all depends on what the bank does to start the process.

damn dude, you got fucked over. :( 450 hours community service and probation until 18, that sucks

I got a fake penny once, turned out to be piece of cookie. :glugglug

I had this happen at a bank machine in the usa and they gave me the same story. Its impossible sir we dont make errors. Im like look bitch i just got the money out of your atm 10 minutes ago and now im told its fake so whats up ?

Not only that she wouldnt give me the $20 back she said they have to hold all counterfeit money. And they called the cops and notified ss.

Nobody ever contacted me back though.

I remember watching this cops one time where a guy had one of those fake $20 ad flyers that have like a part of a $20 bill on the end but when you unfold it its just a flyer for some pizza place or something. Well the cops had a revers crack sting setup they were selling crack to people and then arresting them , so this guy pulls up in a truck and has the bill all folded up and the cops sell him the crack and try to grab him but he takes off like a bat out of hell int he truck , almost kills 2 cops by running them down.

Also that reminds me of another stupid cops show where this lady calls up and complains that she just bought crack off some guy and he sold her drywall crumbles and she wanted her money back LOL

Fuck now i cant stop laughing . Those remind me of yet another stupid cops show where this cop gets a house on fire call and he shows up and it looks like this ladies house is on fire in the back so he is frantically trying to wake the old bird up , and you can hear the old lady screaming inside and he is like " its the cops your house is on fire " and she is like " no it isnt " and he proceeds to smash out all her windows on her door one at a time ( god knows why because he couldnt reach thru the tiny glass holes ) then finally some other cop comes running around the corner and is like " man thats the wrong house " so the old lady is scared shitless at this ponint freaking out and the cops like . sorry maam and leaves the old lady with all her windows smashed out .

some of the counterfeit detection machines in the u.s. react if the bill has had bleach on it, so if someone washes the bill in their pants pocket, it will show up on those machines as fake

btw, i used to work at a club in l.a. near the airport. bank gave us fake $20s all the time. if you returned them, they kept them and gave them to the secret service.