Posted by buttercup26 (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 6:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)

hahahaha

Posted by shooshoo (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 9:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)

deeDEE dee

Posted by mommyagain (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 9:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Just wondering. What if you receive a counterfeit bill and don't know it. Will you still get in trouble?

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 9:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes you can, if you can't somehow prove or atleast convince the authorities that you received it unknowingly. Say for instance you got change from the store, if you got caught trying to spend it and were able to prove you knew nothing the "money" would be kept and you would be short that much money from your pocket. Almost makes you want to buy your own counterfeit pen.

Posted by cchat123 (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 9:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Everything else is being passed off as counterfeit and is making the grade....i.e. politicans, education degrees, religious leaders, people posing as responsible parents
...so why be surprised at fake money

Posted by notfromnatchez (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 10:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)

What about all the fake purses that are all over the Miss-Lou area?

Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 10:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

See, that's what I was thinking! This could have easily been a situation where one of those phonies got to an innocent person. Unless you are trained, carry a marker with you constantly, you aren't really going to know whether you are getting a fake bill. Going through life and daily errands, getting cash from ATMs, change from purchases, etc., how many of us are marking each note we get? If these things have made it through the pipe line, this is not good.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 10:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I can assure you that the money that goes into an ATM is not checked. It comes from the federal reserve by armoured truck in bundles. The banks run it through a counter and put it in the machine. I guess in that case if caught with a fake bill you could get the video from the ATM and prove your case. I know that if it was a $20 bill I'd be extremely upset but if it was a $50 or $100 most people would have to do without groceries or necessities when having to surrender the bill.

Posted by happybunny (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 1:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The counting machines the banks use have counterfeit detectors in them. I would be more concerned with the change you get from retail stores.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 1:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Some of the newer banks might have such a detector but I worked for a financial organization and I've never heard of such a machine.

Posted by mommyagain (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

funny cchat!

Posted by happybunny (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 2 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm sure they exist but I have worked at a bank for over 15 years and have never seen a machine without one.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 2:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

happybunny-Come to Baton Rouge and the surrounding area and you'll see many without them. I loaded the ATM.

Posted by happybunny (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 3:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Not worth the trip to Baton Rouge to prove something so silly.

Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 4:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Robin,

I went to a bank in Baton Rouge one time years ago and ask them to break a $100 dollar bill for me and they gave me 5- $17 dollar bills and 1- $15 dollar bill. Now I know why!!!!!!!!

Posted by ksuplady15 (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Read the small print on the side of the package of the counterfiet detection pens, they do not work on bills before a certain date. They do not work correctly on a bill that has been washed or been wet.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 11:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

redusmfan sounds like one of my former coworkers from Natchez. That's too funny.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 11:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

happybunny-That wasn't exactly an invitation. It was just a statement. And if it was so silly you shouldn't have even bothered with posting.

Posted by Lily_Dream (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 11:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

OKAY-----An Officer of the law steals thousands of $$$ in "Dirty Drug " money and he gets out of jail by promising to appear. A citizen of Natchez gets arrested for passing a fake $100 bill. In a nutshell, both acts are called, "Stealing". Mr. Johnson should be allowed to get out of jail on a "Promise to Appear" as well.

Posted by iluvntz2 (anonymous) on July 10, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Robin --- even really old money counters have counterfeit detectors built into them, ask the tellers. Rest assured the Federal Reserve is not delivering any funny money to the banks.

Posted by RobinBrownHayes (anonymous) on July 11, 2008 at 12:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Just for your info, I googled the subject and this is what I found. Before an ATM is placed in a public place, it typically has undergone extensive testing with both test money and the backend computer systems that allow it to perform transactions. Banking customers also have come to expect high reliability in their ATMs,which provides incentives to ATM providers to minimize machine and network failures. Financial consequences of incorrect machine operation also provide high degrees of incentive to minimize malfunctions.

ATMs and the supporting electronic financial networks are generally very reliable, with industry benchmarks typically producing 98.25% customer availability for ATMs and up to 99.999% availability for host systems. If ATMs do go out of service, customers could be left without the ability to make transactions until the beginning of their bank's next time of opening hours.

Of course, not all errors are to the detriment of customers; there have been cases of machines giving out money without debiting the account, or giving out higher value notes as a result of incorrect denomination of banknote being loaded in the money cassettes. Errors that can occur may be mechanical (such as card transport mechanisms; keypads; hard disk failures); software (such as operating system; device driver; application); communications; or purely down to operator error.

To aid in reliability, some ATMs print each transaction to a roll paper journal that is stored inside the ATM, which allows both the users of the ATMs and the related financial institutions to settle things based on the records in the journal in case there is a dispute. In some cases, transactions are posted to an electronic journal to remove the cost of supplying journal paper to the ATM and for more convenient searching of data.

**********Improper money checking can cause the possibility of a customer receiving counterfeit banknotes from an ATM. While Bank personnel are generally trained better at spotting and removing counterfeit cash,the resulting ATM money supplies used by banks provide no absolute guarantee for proper banknotes, as the Federal Some ATMs may be stocked and wholly owned by outside companies, which can further complicate this problem when it happens. Bill validation technology can be used by ATM providers to help ensure the authenticity of the cash before it is stocked in an ATM; ATMs that have cash recycling capabilities include this capability.************

Posted by vidalia1 (anonymous) on July 11, 2008 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

WOW!Good to know, Robin.