Follow-up to conterfeit $50 bills

[olnacl]

Given your earlier post, when I got three responses to a CL ad yesterday, I replied to each of them with the admonition cash - no bills larger than $20.
Funny, none of them responded…

[OWC Jamie]

rgG wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
But its not really loss, he sold it. Now, the pieces of paper he traded it for aren't worth what he thought they were.

He was cheated, it wasn't stolen.

The police consider it theft, so it was stolen.

I believe in Georgia it is considered theft by deception.
That's merriam webster's definition, too.


course, whichever incurs more jail time might work for David . :-)

[fauch]

They might pick him up and ask you to do a real lineup. That will probably be easier than an old mugshot...

[tenders]

What a horrible story, thank you for sharing.

This scam seems like a lot of work and risk - were there fingerprints on the bills? - for a relatively small, trackable payoff. Seems like coins, components, and more passive electronics like TVs would be a lot less traceable.

I wonder if it's possible that the person who passed you the fake bills had received them from someone else and was eager to pass them off?

[graylocks]

tenders wrote:

I wonder if it's possible that the person who passed you the fake bills had received them from someone else and was eager to pass them off?

it's also conceivable that that person didn't even know they were fake. at any rate, any cash transaction i make like that i do specify no bills larger than $20. also, google how to spot fake bills. there are a number of sites and a few youtube vids. when i sold my car for junk i had a feeling the guy would pay in $100 bills (which he did) so i made sure to research how to check them 100s. i tell myself that i may still be fooled someday but at least i tried to verify the bills are real.

[bruceko]

i doubt the Secret service will do anything. To little of a fish.
I had a deal a few years back where some one set up a fake ups account using my home address. He was sending out counterfeit travelers checks
to people in $2500 amounts. The only reason I found out about it was because some woman called me screaming about why I had sent these to her grandson. The next day I received a welcome package from ups with my address but a different name. A few days later I got a refused shipment with $2500 in travelers checks.
Thats when I figured it out. There turned out to be about 20 shipments that had all been sent from a UPS store in Honolulu.

The local police would not do anything even to record it. they told me it was a post office matter. Usps wouldn't do any thing because it was not sent by mail. Fbi wouldn't do anything. finally I talked to the secret Service and the agent said I could mail him the info but we was just starting to work on a 18 million dollar case the was reported 3 year earlier so my case would probably never be looked into

[silvarios]

rjmacs wrote: Your inability to make a positive ID made me think that if i ever were to undertake a sale like this, i'd ask to take a photo of the buyer's face at the point of sale. If there's hesitation or refusal, that would be a red flag to me. That kind of snapshot would only be threatening if you were trying to pull a fast one - otherwise, it's just a picture of you with your new iPad!

No, that's a weird request. I can't stop you from taking a picture of me in a public place but you wouldn't get my consent or the deal.

[Lux Interior]

rjmacs wrote:
if i ever were to undertake a sale like this, i'd ask to take a photo of the buyer's face at the point of sale.

Fingerprint them, too. And get their SSN for a background check.

Oh! And also ask for their Facebook password!