Counterfeit $100 bill found at Wal-Mart

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By Tiffany Griffin

Story Created: Mar 31, 2008 at 6:28 AM EST

Story Updated: Mar 31, 2008 at 9:01 AM EST

SOUTH BEND — A customer paid with a counterfeit $100 bill Sunday morning at Wal-Mart Supercenter, 3701 Portage Road.

A store employee noticed the fake bill and notified South Bend police about 10 a.m. Sunday. There was no description of the suspect.

Sunday, Dec 21 at 9:28 PM Davidlee110 wrote ...

you just getting counterfiet money for nothing you just wasting printer color ink

Tuesday, Apr 1 at 1:25 PM sierra wrote ...

people are slow

Tuesday, Apr 1 at 3:57 AM Ron wrote ...

A way to tell if your money is real is to hold it right up to a black light light bulb. You will be able to see the stripe glow. Each denomination has it's own color stripe. I learned about this while at a dance club where there was a lot of blacklights on. Your new photo id's have some unique invisible features too that can be seen only with a blacklight.

Tuesday, Apr 1 at 12:23 AM greta , south bend wrote ...

So what!! i agree, why is this important news??? Let's focus on child molesters and murderers..or...is that to hard?????????

Monday, Mar 31 at 8:35 PM jeff wrote ...

seems appropriate to pay for lead filled chinese knockoffs with counterfeit money

Monday, Mar 31 at 4:35 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Who said that it was given to a cashier?? Wal-mart has self check out aisles, maybe it was used in one of those. You never know.

Monday, Mar 31 at 2:35 PM c wrote ...

it may not have helped catching the one who used it. I gave a cashier a 20 bill and to my shock it was fake. Not funny when its your last bit of money for the week

Monday, Mar 31 at 2:00 PM ... wrote ...

the reason why this made the news is because this is about the 2nd or 3rd fake that has been found in the past few weeks. A few have been found in Michigan.

Monday, Mar 31 at 1:30 PM santa claus wrote ...

I have signed my reciept as Santa Claus several times and they never knew it, and I even have check ID on the back of my card.for laughs try it sometime, Easter bunny, Williama I. Ball ect.

Monday, Mar 31 at 1:03 PM what is the wourld comming to wrote ...

Oh man I can't believe somethign like this coul dhappen in South Bend Especially up on Portage Road! (ALL Sarcastic)!

Monday, Mar 31 at 12:37 PM Anonymous wrote ...

It would be a great story if it was a ten dollar purchase and he got 4 countereit 20's back in change!

Monday, Mar 31 at 11:46 AM Anonymous wrote ...

This is probably news to warn the other stores of this happening. I use to own a store and this happened to me plenty of times. So being a store owner I would want to be on the lookout for someone trying to get away with this. More than likely they are going to hit more than one store.

Monday, Mar 31 at 11:05 AM Kristi wrote ...

If anything, it just goes to show the stupidity of Wal-Mart. When I worked in retail, it was required that we check any bill that was a $20 or above to make sure it wasn't counterfeit. Not only did we use the markers, but also checked for certain things on the bill itself. Wal-Mart should have trained the cashier to check and, if they did train him/her, then it is the cashier's fault for not checking. They could have easily caught the person if they paid attention.

Monday, Mar 31 at 10:26 AM Anonymous wrote ...

Wait okay, why is this news? I work in a grocery store and whenever WE get a counterfeit bill, no matter if it's a fake $10 or $100, and WE never get on the news. What's so special with this case? Did the guy get away with it or was he caught at the scene? If not, what's the point of the story anyway if you can't even come up with a description? LAME.

Monday, Mar 31 at 10:07 AM jtalker1965 wrote ...

Don't they check the bills before hand? Nope they don't. I have watched. They don't check credit cards for I.D. I know because I handed the girl my wifes this weekend. Real poor on managements part training.

Monday, Mar 31 at 9:52 AM Sam wrote ...

Are you kidding me? This is news? Come on.

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