Be careful where you get your money Granny

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
19/03/2010 09:26

Carl Redden and fiancee Suzanne Wilson, both 24, were arrested and immediately thrown into a cell just hours after becoming engaged when a 50 Euro note he used to buy lunch on the Mediterranean holiday island was discovered to be a counterfeit.

Miss Wilson, a teacher, told today how the couple had no idea the notes - which had been obtained by Mr Redden's grandmother for them from a post office - were fakes.Mr Redden asked grandmother Sylvia Redden, who lives next door to the couple in Kings Norton, Birmingham, to exchange his holiday money at the post office.

While she was queueing in the post office, Mrs Redden, 69, was approached by a smartly dressed couple who were standing nearby.

They said they were waiting to change their Euros back into Sterling and asked the pensioner if she wanted to save time and commission charges and take their Euros instead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258927/British-holidaymaker-caught-fake-Euros-scam-jailed-Cyprus.html

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
19/03/2010 10:04

Be warned there are fake 100TL notes in circulation... they are impossible to tell from just looking at them as they are very clever forgeries. The paper is what gives them away. It feels too fluffy and not quite shiny enough.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
19/03/2010 10:19

And I believe that when you set fire to them they butn with a pinkish coloured flame.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
19/03/2010 10:21

No, I will not give compensation to anyone who is stupid enough to set fire to a 100TL note just to see what colour it burns.

That would make you evenmore gullible than the poor old granny in the story. Quite a clever scam though !!

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
19/03/2010 13:23

There was a similar scam on the Real Husstle on TV, where the hussler posing as Police Fraud Squad approached people coming out of the Bureau-de-change. They watched people changing money inside and when they came out, told them that they were investigating counterfeight notes being issued in there and could they please check theirs.



EVERYONE handed over the notes that they had just bought and in the scam the hussler managed to swap them for fakes. The people didn't realise and just walked away with the fakes.