In my economics class up at school, the professor said strip clubs are one of the major places where counterfeit bills get passed around. Anyone here ever experienced that?
In my economics class up at school, the professor said strip clubs are one of the major places where counterfeit bills get passed around. Anyone here ever experienced that?
not to my knowledge, but I heard it happening to a co-worker. I've also heard of guys making fake "funny money".
not yet but i was in the rave sceane a while back in 98 when some folks i knew made a major batch of the bills... any dark place where you cannot see very well could be a place where they are passed. raves. strip clubs. get a money pen... i guess.... and carry it with you





I've never experienced it or heard of anyone who did. Strip clubs may be a big target for small-time counterfeitors, but I have always heard of counterfeit $$ being passed at places like gas stations and fast food restaurants, because they want to pass larger bills where they can buy something small and get change back in real dollars. Then there's the bigger cases where guys are in large debt, and make fake bills to pay it off. I should think the REAL counterfeitors wouldn't waste too much time passing them in strip clubs, because they don't get anything $$-wise out of it. The real fakers are in it for profit, not fun.
yes the best thing to do is to get a money pen ...management or the bar alway check the moneys passed to them using the light or a money pen to see ifits real ...i think due to the fact that clubs are usually croweded gives a person lots of opertunities to do this kindof stuff ....i think i'll take a money pen with me the next time i go to work ...i hear that they have counterfiets of the new $20 going around ...it was on the news a couple nights ago
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That's a good point, Bridgette. I imagine if someone is using counterfeit money in a strip club, it's probably because they accidentally ended up with it...who knows. There isn't much profit in cheatng strippers.
I always check when I'm giving change though...like if a guy hands me a $100 for a dance. I jsut hold it up to the light and look for the safety features. I don't really want to carry around a money pen.
I just always fan the bills out and see if the strips glow in the black light... but we have a lot of black light. Not foolproof but it makes me feel better.
I knew a woman who got two fake twenties out of a Bank of America ATM. Now *that* is creepy to me.
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I have heard that too and wanted to get a money pen..where do you get one of those? i saw the cigarette girl checking every bill with a money pen but i forgot to ask her where to get one! Does it turn a special color if the $ is fake?
You can get them at business/office supply stores. I know I've seen them at Smart & Final too. The pen turns yellow on a real bill and black on a fake one. Most 20s you have right now probably have a little faint yellow mark on them.
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I still don't see why a money pen is necessary when nobody seems to have ever had a problem. It just doesn't seem like it happens enough to go through all that trouble.
If I ever received a fake bill, I was able to spend it.
thanks for the info...the reason i was thinking about it was in my law class my teacher is a lawyer and she told me that since 9/11 when the gov't passed all those bills that allowed them to have more surveillance and be able to track money more closely part of that bill was something about counterfeit money and now even if its as low as $20 banks and merchants have a hotline # they can call and the FBI investigates your entire background to make sure you are not laundering $...basically they used the 9/11 bill as a way to get all kinds of things into law that they normally wouldnt be able to..so I figured before I deposit $ into a bank I will check them cuz I dont need any attention brought to myself...





They have a thread about this on SC junkie.... i think a member mentioned that this happened to him while in a SC.





Funny this topic came up. I was reading
this article on techtv.com today about an Austrailian company called Securency that prints currency for Austrailia and some 20 other nations out of plastic polymer. Amongst the security features in the money is a clear plastic window that you can see through.
Austrailia started printing plastic money since the late 1980's. Apparently it costs more to print, but since they're made of plastic, the bills stay in circulation longer and they're far more difficult to counterfeit than paper money.
You'd think we Americans would get with the program, although I do hear the U.S. Treasury is testing this material, so you may see this sort of thing before too long.
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It is my understanding that the majority of the counterfeiting of US dollars takes place in foreign countries for attempted circulation to people who do not know the "look and feel" of US currency. Most of the casual conterfieting in the US is by teenagers who buy something at the 7-11 and want the change, so they are not likely SC customers.
I used to work as a bank teller in college and only saw one counterfeit bill out of probably millions of bills I touched. The teller who found it did so because it did not "feel" right. And this was before the security features were added.
Since the punishment for counterfeiting is 15 years in the federal pokey, few people are willing to do it when robbing a bank is a lot safer for them. Rob 1 bank and your odds of getting away are good. Rob 3, and they probably have got you dead to rights.
Ripley is exactly right about the black light, but I'd bet a McDonald's or a convenience store probably deals with more different pieces of paper in a day.
PS the secret service web site is http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml
Once I was given some counterfit money at the Stardust casino in Vegas. Now talk about a shocking place to get fake money!



I've been handed fake money 3 times in my life. Once when I worked at a fast food restaurant. It was funny watching that guy get arrested...
Once at a strip club in IL. and once in Ca. The first two times the color and look were the main giveaways the third time, the paper quality was a dead giveaway.
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Strip clubs and car dealerships used to be the main coverups for money laundering operations...



Our club recently got hit with a lot of counterfeit money. A lot of the girls unfortunately got hit (I really feel for them-imagine doing dances all night-thinking they're doing well $$$ wise and then having it taken away) The person (or persons) apparently wasn't handing it over to the bar staff-but freely paid for dances with it.
This happened twice where the girls really got hit. Thankfully I wasn't one of them-but of course I still feel horrible for them.
We now have several markers. Our club doesn't have many black lights, and I'm sure the girls just took the money without really thinking to check to begin with...
I've never gotten any fake money. If A guy sees us mark the bill with a money pin dont you think that would turn him off?lol :o
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I have always checked for the strip when getting $100s, especially if a guy is paying for less than 5 dances and wants change back. I do it casually in front of the guys, without even thinking. The bar staff has to do it as a rule also. I've never seen a guy get turned off about that - I'm sure they understand. I have had a few make joking comments like 'oh yeah watch the ink it might still be wet' or 'yeah I just printed that'. I just laugh and say something like 'hey well that's a good job you did'. Furthermore, I don't really care if a guy gets turned off by my checking the bills, I am not working for fake $$ and I personally think some customers are just too damn sensitive. Hell, sometimes it seems every little thing we do to cover our asses could potentially 'turn a guy off'. Of course we have to take care to not do anything outright offensive to them, but I also think they need to be a little more understanding.
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