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Fake €20 whose to blame?

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    #32
    Bepolite
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    I can't understand how they could tell from CCTV footage who gave in the fake 20. How could you possibly judge if a 20 is real or not from low quality footage from a camera mounted in the roof above the till?

    Some retail CCTV can even see the numbers on the notes.


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    #33
    skelligs
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    I can't understand how they could tell from CCTV footage who gave in the fake 20. How could you possibly judge if a 20 is real or not from low quality footage from a camera mounted in the roof above the till?

    Assuming it was not a very busy time for the shop, cctv can easily show who gave the last €20 note before the OP got it.

    Here's details of security features on notes
    http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/eurocoins/banknote-security

    Overall, whilst its good to be vigilant, the amount of counterfeit notes is very small in relation to the number of notes in circulation.

    At last estimates up to €100,000,000 of counterfeit notes could be in circulation - but consider there is over €950,000,000,000 in circulation, you have a one chance in about 10,000 of getting one. That's about the same level of counterfeiting as USA.


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    #34
    MadYaker
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    Yeah but how would they know the last 20 was the counterfeit one?


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    #35
    Nino Brown
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    Yeah but how would they know the last 20 was the counterfeit one?

    It would be the one on top?


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    Fred Swanson
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    #37
    fat to ripped
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    You could try use it there again.


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    #38
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Interesting about the dyed notes.. I'm sure I received something from BoI a couple of years ago which said not to accept them? I was under the impression they were worthless but that doesn't really make any sense either.

    Haven't they come up with a way of washing the dye out of them anyway?


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