Phoney Money.................. / myLot

United States

May 17, 2011 1:56pm CST

I have a major rant to get of my chest, of course I thought of coming to mylot with it. Last night after work I stopped at a local gas station. I only had $100 dollar bill, I gave it to the lady and said I wanted $20 worth of gas. She looked at my hundred like her life depended on it. I had a gut feeling but just figured stores and such have to be careful. She then got in the cash register and put that away and also got some money out of the drawer. She then reached in down below. I had another feeling, I just figured she was getting more money because the stores don't like keeping too much money in their cash drawers. I put the 4 $20's in my purse, got my gas and left. Went down the street to a carryout, had to pick up a few things. I reached in my purse and gave the guy a $20, he looked at it and said it was fake, gave it back to me. I then gave him another one, he said that one was fake again. I was shocked, my stomach fell. I said I just got it from the gas station. I didn't know what to do. I went to the next carry out and asked them to look at the money and tell me if it was fake. They were so nice and looked at it, checked it out. Sure enough, fake money. They showed me how to tell the difference. I then went back to the gas station, the lady was still there. She said she always checked her money that she didn't do that. I believe with all my heart that she knew exactly what she was doing. I called 911, explained to them what happened. They said they could send the police out, all they would do is take the fake money from me. They could not make the store give me back real money. I also talked to the manager, no results there, she stuck up for the girl. She said they would wait for the police to come. I said they weren't coming. She mentioned the owners name, I recognized the name, he also owns the gas station closer to my house. I don't go there because I don't like them people. They are low lifes, they let people sell drugs out of the parking lot. They also have been caught selling boot legged stuff. Now I find out the same people own both places. I am going to have to find another gas station to go to. I stopped at the other place right after this to talk to the owner. His van was there, but supposedly he wasn't there. Yeh right, they warned him I was coming up there to talk to him. By this time it was getting past 9 at night, nothing more I could do. I did call 911 again and ask them if there was someone I could call today to report this. They gave me a number. Next day-today. I called the number, it was a recording-it was the police dept. I also called the US Treasury dept. They said to call the FBI, called them. They said to call the Secret Service, called them. They took my name and number, told me to take the fake money to the bank. The bank would take it, and then send it to them. Basically nothing I could do. I asked the lady thats it, she said what do you want to happen. I said so these people just get away with passing fake money to people and they get away with it. She said none of the agents was available that she would have someone call me. She also told me again to take the money to the bank. On to the discussion. Has anything like this ever happened to you? Have you ever been passed fake money? I know this is a long post, thanks for reading. I am one to look at the bright side of things, at least I didn't get stuck with 4 fake $20's, just 2 of them.

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Patsie Hatley

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 May 11

hi polly It does sound to me like that woman knew exactly what she was doing as most shop owners are taught to know fake money. thats awful and it sounds like she is getting away with it too. that's awful to get by'with passing counterfeit money. I once found a twenty dollar bill on campus so I thought wow I can go buy that blouse I have always wanted to buy. so I picked the blouse out and handed the bill to the clerk. she took one look and made a phone call. In a minute a man a little older than m self was at my elbow. He took out a badge and explained he was an FBI agent and that the bill I gave the clerk was a cou nterfeit one. He asked mw where I got and I told him it was on the s idewalk in front of one of the frat houses on C ampus. He asked me to ride with him to the spot where I found it so I did glad he was not going to arrest me. It turned out that some boys in that frat house were connected to a counterfeiting ring and they were elected to pass out counterfeit mony. they were arrested along with the men who were the actual coumterfeiters. I had to make a check out to get the blouse. so much for found money;.lol.

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