Wrong move! I just give back the 100 peso fake bill to the vendor to change it!

Yes, you could have reported it to the police so the vendor could be accosted. By accepting the fake 100 with no question at all, means he is accepting that it's a fake. It's a good thing that you know how to look at a genuine money. Serves that vendor right! But he deserves a heavier penalty.

Oh glad you did but the problem is the vendor will change it to other costumers is like exchange money ! I always careful to buy and see the money if fake or not,because i will be in big trouble if i did use fake to other store!.......bad

I don't think there's anything else that you could have done with that fake peso bill. Because even if you did report that, I am not sure that our police can make that vendor accountable for it because that vendor will just claim that he did not know it was a fake bill. Also that vendor will say that they just got it as payment so they are victims of fraud too. I remember that banks do not accept fake bills too. A few years ago when I was still a manager for a fast food restaurant, there were some instances where our cashiers would get fake bills. The bank teller would just give the fake bill back to us when we would make a deposit and then we would have to keep the fake bill. So it seems that when you get a fake bill, consider it as trash because you can't get it reimbursed from the bank or the government even if you report it.

We should be very careful with the money that we receive because you see, there are vendors who are tricky like that vendor in your story. I do not want to encounter such a vendor. It's a good thing that it's just a hundred-peso bill. I hope he or she gets busted.

Oh yeah you could have informed him that it was fake. I've seen the news last night about this guy (or a group) that was using fake 100 peso bill to small stores. Maybe we really need to be careful and check whether the money given to us is fake or not.

It is really a wrong but at least you knew it. So next time when you have same situation, you already know what to do about it. Keep it up, :)

here in the US if you give out a phony bill and know its a phony bill they will call the police and hold you until they can find out if you got it innocently or you are the one making and passing phony money , I know as I had picked up a twenty dollar bill lying on the sidewalk in the campus where at that time years and years back i was a coed there. I had an fbi agent and police officer asking me a ton of questions and I proved i was innocent so the FBI agent took nme to the place on the campus where I had found the bill. it turned out that the frat house there was a cover for two young men making counterfeit money. wow.[

It is obvious the vendor also got that fake 100 peso bill from the buyers because you were able to return to the vendor that fake money without him even noticing it is fake. I also got a fake change before. It was so many years back. It was a 50 peso fake bill I got from a meat vendor. I go to know it was fake when the watch repairman told me it was fake as I was paying him for his service. Well I just charged it to bad experience. I cut the money into pieces because I believe any fake money belongs to the garbage. Anyway in your case, I find it quite funny how you were able to get back your 100 in that way. 100 is 100 and with the hard life we are having it is really not good to have your 100 wasted.

We'll you've done it already. Perhaps next time, (hopefully no more next time on fake bills) better tell the vendor that it was fake so that he/she would not give it to anybody. My in-laws are also vendors in the market and based on my observation, they don't issue change to their customers with fake bills. Once they notice it was fake, they separate it from the rest. Some vendors are still honest. Usually they are just meticulous in accepting payment if its 500 or 1000 peso bills. 100, 50 or 20 peso bills are not carefully checked especially when many customers are buying at the same time. And to avoid the same thing happen again, better check the change before leaving the store or the vendor so you could easily claim for the real money. Happy Mylotting!

Yes, that is a wrong move. I think cashiers could confiscate fake bills without any replacement and that is for the purpose not to bring it back to circulation. Maybe the vendor does know that it was fake because he immediately replaced it without any question. The initial reaction should be to ask reasons and if you told him that it was fake, then he will deny coming from him since you don't have proof that it really comes from him.

well you could always report the vendor so the cops will investigate and if caught with the fake bill then hurray for us consumers, that fictitious, fake money giving away person. Should pay for that particular crime. I hop that you will consider telling on the cops. Anyway lhenni good move you got your money back.

Haha that is a nice move, the vendor is kinda dumb I think. Because they need to know how the bills supposed to be and find out the fake ones. But you earned just some monet mate ;D

Hi Lhenni, You made the correct move, there is no need to felt uneasy for it. Usually most of super market try to fool us by making fake bills. Because of this fake bills the super markets earn some huge amount without tax. Lets hope some where it must be corrected by alterness of customers. HAve a nice day !

i hope that authorities would take action to this kind of incident.