What should you do if you get fake money as change?

Question

My husband went to hand me a $10 the other day that was folded up, and all I did was take a look and I knew it was a fake (the color was off just slightly, but I've been cashiering for a long time, so I can spot them very easily). He said he got it as change from a store, and of course he was very mad. Unless you show them IN the store that it's fake before you leave, there's no way they will change it for you. Is there a way to get it changed without having to sneakily spend it somewhere?

Answer 1

pass it off the banks wont replace it with good currency let it be someone elses problem

Answer 2

wat the shop should of done is test the money before accepted it so that i dosnt get passed on. i woul personaly take the money back from were he got it and tell them that it is fake.

Answer 3

Go back to the store and demand another bill.  If they refuse, call the cops and raise h**l.  The cops will alert the proper authorities.  That's their job.  As far as the store goes, the last thing that store wants is an article in the newspaper saying that they gave fake change to a customer then wouldn't make good on it when they got caught.  Their cashier is at fault for not spotting the fake bill before giving it out to a customer, especially if, as you say, it was a lousy version of a real bill.

Answer 4

You can do one of two thing with it.

Take it to the bank and get a receipt for it and deduct it on your taxes as a bad bebit.  

Send it to a Federal Bank, you may get a request from them asking you to fill out a form as to how you get it.

Answer 5

If you don't mind losing your money you can turn it in.

Me personally would go back to the store and spend it.  They do the same thing.  When I got foreign pennies I always just passed it along to someone else.

Answer 6

no it will get taken by the bank and you get nothing.just go to your local hot dog vendor and pass it on there.there are a lot of fakes just pass them on to someone else ..no worries.

Answer 7

You are supposed to hand it over to authority.  It is a felony for having possession of a counterfeit bill even you obtained it from someplace else.

P.S. Dirtyhip, once a bank receive a counterfeit bill, they are not allowed to give it back to customer, and they will not give a geniune bill back to you if they know they didnt get it from you.  Besides, the bank teller will get into trouble also with her/his dept head.  That will mean the bankteller did not do the job by checking the bill correctly when accepting from customer

Answer 8

If you knowingly pass bad money it is a felony

Answer 9

Call the secret service.  Be prepared to tell when and where your recieved the money.  You won't get your $10, but it will start an investigation to see if the store is involved.

Answer 10

Starlight: you did NOT get phone currency from the bank.  Any fake good enough to get past them, you will NEVER spot.

piyo006: It is NOT illegal to possess phony money, only to try to USE it.

Shady:  If you have that much experience, you should KNOW the answer.  Short form, you lost $10.00.

Answer 11

thankfully it's only 10 bucks.  :)

but if it's soon enough, you could take it back to where he got it from...

or, you could take it the your bank (they won't trade out for it) but they will pass it on to the fed to get it taken out of circulation.  

i wouldn't try and pass it, it could be a felony since you *knew* about it.

Answer 12

You cannot pass this money on, because you would be commiting a felony. Contact your local police departmen they can guide you on what to do. Good luck

Answer 13

Rip a *****'s weave out.

Answer 14

Call the Secret Service

Answer 15

take it to the bank.

if theyre nice enough (or if your account is the reason they need a bigger vault) they just might change it for you

Answer 16

Oh this happened to me once and we'd just got it from a bank!!  

First thing is I would go back to the store w/your receipt and find the manager.  If you got one chances are they either 1.have more in their register or 2.have handed out more to other customers.  Tell them you want to file a report w/them and whomever you need to and want an  exchange it.

that's all i know to do...  as for us and the bank we had to file reports w/ our bank (we tried to deposit it-my husband had cashed his check at the employers bank first) then take the report and fake money to the other bank, tell them which teller we'd got it from and they did give us another bill to replace the one we'd got.

Answer 17

Nope. You get stuck with it, that's your problem. You can report it to the authorities, but that will not give you your money back.