WELLS FARGO just passed us a counterfeit $50.00 bill

What the fuck are you on about?

The fake bill was supposed to dance like Sammy Davis Jr and say "Look at me, I'm fake"?

THe bank teller actually told me that the conterfitters (yes I know sp? ) take a $10.00 bill, wash it with a certain chemical, leaving the security markings intact, then reink the paper to look like a hundred dollar bill.

Hahaha, that's funny and probably true too. I have to wonder how everyone would feel if they knew how easily it could happen to them at their local bank. Just to think that it could happen to someone's entire paycheck and it really could be devastating to them on a personal level if they are living paycheck to paycheck. This bill looks completely authentic. There really isn't anyway to know anything is wrong on this one until it's marked. Never had a problem before. In the future I'll have my own pen and will probably request small bills before ever leaving the teller's window.

When this happened to me, the withdrawl was quite large, the teller and I went into a private room where she counted out the $. She went TO THE VAULT to get it. This was right before WAMU went down and I got nervous and took out my lifes savings. A few months later when things had settled down and I got tired of being nervous with cash in the house, I re deposited almost all of it. The rest I kept at home for emergency money. This bad $100.00 was still in the bank band when I took cash to buy a new washer. The guy at Sears was the one that questioned it. The bank would not do anything about it and I DID make a scene!

My daughter told me that also. This one's strip says Fifty USA 50 in it. Sure seems like an unbelievable fake to not go to the trouble of making it unmarkable. You would think with that kind of talent they could do better. I've watched shows where they say that foreign governments are the biggest counterfeiters there are.

How long have you seen a 50 dollar bill? NONE in your LIFE TIME?

Sure seems like a lot of people have been stiffed... except for the banks.

F'd up to be sure! I did a post on here when this happened to me but I can't seem to find it now. I thought about putting it back into the atm. My Mother offered to give me $100. not to as she is sure I'll go to jail! I said, hell, I'm just giving it back to them. LOL

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It's not magic, it's iodine. Want to make a bill not mark? Spray starch. Doesnt have to be fake. "Magic money-checking pens".

Makes me want to buy a counterfeit pen (I think they sell them at walgreens) and when the cashier at the bank hands me out my money, take the pen in front of the cashier and verify that all bills are real.

I swear I've handed bills into the bank before, hundred dollar bills (not often) and wondered why they didn't check the bills more thoroughly.

Where i work, we at least hold it up to the light if we don't have a pen. The banks supposedly can use UV lights, but if my bill had been fake, I doubt they'd even realize who gave it to them if they found out

Serious? I miss yesterday when I didn't have to be one step in front of the counterfeiters to just be able to cash a check at my own bank. That's why I go to the bank in the first place. Well, thanks for the information all the same.

We deposit a lot of cash from our business. One day, my husband made a deposit and as soon as he got back to our place, the bank was on the phone and the teller told him there was a fake $100 in the deposit so she was going to reduce our account by that amount.

He told her no fucking way, we had no way of knowing if that specific bill was in our deposit, it could have come from anywhere. Also told her if our account was charged, it would be closed immediately and our business taken elsewhere.

Never heard another word about it.

I have wondered if the teller herself was trying to make a hundred bucks there.

Bingo! Think how easily this could be done!

First of all stop handling the bill to preserve recent prints! The finger prints of people that have handled it(including the Counterfeiter, and Bank Teller) are recoverable by the FBI. The FBI is responsible for investigating all counterfeit so call them and turn it over to them. Report this to your bank and ask for a replacement.

Considering that the dispute didn't escalate above the teller - we didn't have to deal with her supervisor or the bank manager or anyone else, just her - that's just fishy. If it were bank policy to try and get the money from us, the teller wouldn't have the authority to drop the matter when we refused.

I find all of this very interesting. If you think about it, the only time you get $100 bills is from the bank really. I mean, if you were to go to sears, and pay for a washing machine, you'd either do it by check or credit card. Very few people would have 2 $500 bills and need $100 bill in change. Just an example. So let's say, the banks somehow get clobbered, all of a sudden with fake $100.00 bills from whatever source. How are they going to get rid of them? Of course, give them out to the unsuspecting public! Then tell them they're f^&*ed when they try to say anything. All this going on, and of course, what just came out in the last week. The new and improved $100 dollar bill!

I'm willing to wager $100 dollars! to say that the the counterfeiting problem was HUGE, and the fed and the banks knew it! They just passed that problem on to individuals, middle and lower class people just like they pass EVERY friggin bad problem they have on to the common working people.

THESE ASSHOLES need to be stopped!

I say we make a common citizen authenticity stamp. Anyone who wants to buy one can. Sorta of a citizen's insurance if you will. If you use Wells Fargo, you order a Wells Fargo stamp. You give the teller the stamp when you go to withdraw money. The stamp says this money is certified legitimate by Wells Fargo Bank. It would have a signature line for the teller to sign. If the bill is bad and someone tries to use it, the bank has to take responsibility for it. If they try to say that the stamp itself is counterfeit, you point to the teller's signature. And date.

They won't do it you say? Well if we hadn't bailed out the too big to fail banks in the first place we wouldn't be at the mercy of these fuckers now would we. The big banks would have gone bankrupt and the smaller banks would have gobbled up every atm, chair, and tacky painting up off of every wall. There would be hundreds of them. All competing for our business. A citizen's stamp? Sure, bring it on. We'll do anything to certify the authenticity of our money. After all, we're competing for your business with hundreds of other banks. How it is now?, after the big banks bail out....."A citizen's authenticity stamp?".... "Oh hell no, now go fuck off and suffer with your money loss, we own your asses".

One of the girls I went to school with in my small home town, her mother somehow stole from the bank that she worked at. I always wondered how she could do it if every penny had to be accounted for at the end of the day like they've preached for so long. A crook on every corner.

Excellent point! I couldn't agree more. THEY seem to be the ones passing it mostly. After all, money is supposed to be their very business. Really makes one wonder doesn't it? I've never gotten a bad bill elsewhere.

WELL ON TUESDAY JUNE 15TH 2010 A CHASE ATM GAVE ME 3 COUNTERFEIT $20.00 BILLS (WHAT THE HELL)

Well Stated Phen. The banks are full of HORROR stories and it's ALWAYS
the customer that takes it up the a**.

I'm sick of the shit the banks pull and ALWAYS get away with it.

Shut them ALL the fuck down.

Every bill is funny money. It's an illusion.... just paper.

Go to the wells fargo atm and make a deposit using their new check and cash scanner.

It happened to a friend of mine as well.

Staples carries those pens to check for counterfeit money. I'm going to get one by fall.

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Why is it worthless if the Fed is counterfeiting money anyway ?

I cashed a check at a check-writers bank and took the cash to my bank. One of the bills read as fake at my bank.

I had an account at my bank for over 20 years, so they took the bill apart and found all the construction details were authentic and they gave me credit.

Seriously weird.

Yes, this is not the first account nor the largest amount recently, from post office, bank. Don't trust any of it ! I am buying one of those pens !

Those little pens used to check bills are cheap. So when you go to the bank from now on to cash a check carry one in with you and check each bill that they gave you and let the people in line behind you know that this is why you are doing it.