Fake?
It was going to happen sooner or later, I hoped later or never, but one can't avoid such things. Two days ago I was given a fake(?)-the jury's still out on that- 10 euro bank note. All the security signs look ok, the watermark, the hologram sign, everything except for the signature. The latter looks like a g followed by an o and some lines. I find it weird that the supposed difficult security features were reproduced just fine and the signature proved to be the problem. I'd like to know whether this note passes the check at a bank, and for that matter if it's really fake, but everyone I've spoken too has advised me against it. It would only get me in trouble as I would be their first suspect.
Oh well, what is done is done. At least it was only 10 euros.
edit:
Photos of two signatures
Real:
Suspicious:
Both banknotes have the same tone of color, but somehow the photos of the "suspicious" one end up blurry. Even my camera can't put up with that thing :P
Oh well, what is done is done. At least it was only 10 euros.
edit:
Photos of two signatures
Real:
Suspicious:
Both banknotes have the same tone of color, but somehow the photos of the "suspicious" one end up blurry. Even my camera can't put up with that thing :P
posted by Maria | 1/09/2005 10:32:00 pm
...or maybe it's not a fake note but a misprinted one. You should find a way to check it, because such notes (if, again, is not a fake one) have a high value amongst collectors. But yes, don't try the bank or the police, you would have to go through a long way to explain to them that you are not a poor student that decided to drop University and start producing fake 10euro banknotes(although that could be an option! :P)
Anthony
P.S.: I doubt anyone would fake 10euro notes. They usualy do that for higher values, 20 and above...
A missprint? With my luck? I doubt it. I'm going to post pictures (damn scanner not working again!) of the faked and the real signature. There is a great difference, IMHO.
Okay, morality lesson coming. :P
I think it would be good to give it to a book - if it is really fake. That way banks could start looking out for other fackes. The public can only be warned if people bring their fakes to authorities.
Don't you have any friends working in banks? You could ask them. Or just go to the bank and ask them to check. They've got the machines and if you, poor student, bring in one soddy fake note no one is going to sue you.
Cashima <--- hopefully never got a fake
Oh shame, I must have lost all ability to spell...
book=bank
fackes=fakes
Cashima
Yes, the right thing to do would be to alert the public and in any state this is encouraged. However in this loony country you have to prove first you're not guilty (guilty till proven innoncent is their motto) and then they will consider what you have to say.
A realistic senario:
I go to the bank (btw, I don't have friends working in a bank) and ask to check the bank note. They check it, after I've reassured them it's not one I got from their cashiers or ATM (my father went through a lot of trouble to prove that the fake banknotes he was given once came from a bank) and that I, in no way intend to blay them. The note proves to be false, the police is called. I go to the police station, give a testimony and try to prove my innocence. I repeatedly tell them I was given this. The fact that I didn't report this as soon as it happened doesn't help my case.
Frankly, I don't see this being resolved in one day and I don't have the time or the energy to go through this right now. In an ideal world the citizen who reported fraud who be thanked, in my world he(she)'s been chased. I have morals, hey I didn't try to give it to someone else as someone suggested, but I am selfish and I want to look after my own interests first. I may take the moral and legal road in a month, when I will have free time to waste it, but not right now.
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