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Depends on when you spot it

Submitted by Philip Brewer on February 17, 2008 - 13:45.

The Secret Service has a page on what to do if you get a counterfeit bill.

Despite their advice, if I spotted a counterfeit before I accepted it, I'd refuse it and ask for good money. Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck--it'd be a crime to pass it, and the police aren't going to give you good money for it when they take it away. A local business might reimburse you, if you could convince them that their clerk had really given you a counterfeit, but it would be pretty tough to prove that the counterfeit had come from them.

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