ydi for being so trusting

Next time, before giving people change, find out if the money is real by putting the bill under a light and if you see a face on the side, its real.

i work in retail and we've gotten a couple fake bills but we always caught them. either it was a convincing counterfeit or you're easily fooled. really convincing counterfeits are hard to come by, and i'm sure if that was the case, this guy wouldn't just target people asking them to "make change" for them. my thinking is that it was probably an obvious fake because the girl at the counter caught it, and it was only a $50.

Haha using a 50 dollar bill for starbucks is just silly.

aww, that sucks. hope you weren't arrested or anything.

Well first are you sure it was counterfeit? Older legitimate bills show up as being counterfeit when being checked by a marker. I remember the first time someone paid me with an old 20. I called my manager over and was like "This guys trying to use counterfeit money." That was the first I had ever heard of needing to check the year on the bill to, and not just using the marker Godcomplex, in the US, canada, and Mexico you are not permitted to return the money back to the customer and are required to call the police when you are handed counterfeit money. What country are you in that is acceptable to give it back to them, and where a bank just willingly exchanges real money for false money? It would be pretty fun to take a vacation there...

Always seems to happen to the nice people. that sucks.

You can't trust anybody these days. Such a shame.

don't you check your bills, fool? Direct them to a bank next time :P

how did this all turn out? That would completely suck to find out that first you got ripped off then you get the police called on you for something that was not your doing, Ugh Gah, I feel bad for you man