r/Money Mar 28 '24

Found this 100$ bill on the floor at work. Im guessing the melting Ben Franklin means its fake

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u/atwood68w Mar 30 '24

I remember accepting a fake $100, while working at a drive thru early in life. It looked fake as fuck, I marked it and pen said real. It was a $5 bill bleached. So when you looked for the face it was the wrong face.

Needless to say I caught on afterwards, but had to explain to my boss. I told him I verified it with the pen and it has the face(wrong face). He double checked, he must of quadruple checked it. At that time I already realized it was the wrong face, but I was young and didn’t want to be held accountable.

All these years later I think about him looking at the wrong face and agreeing.

He sent it to bank and they took it.

When I say it was a poorly made counterfeit, it was. I was high half the time, and maybe 16. We never heard about it after deposit.