Cops were called by shop owners because a large, intimidating man was passing them counterfeit bills, stealing from them, and they did not dare confront the thief themselves.
50s/100s are almost never counterfeit. or if they are, it's really fucking good... holograms, ribbon, pen test. it's too high risk.
so instead they do 10s and 20s that fucking no one tests. ever. and unless it's really fucking shitty, no one is going to even say anything. like one of the big concerns in counterfeiting has always been that bills are actually printed on cloth while counterfeits are usually on paper. cloth lasts longer. but some 16 year old cashier isn't going to tell the difference between good paper and real shit. it just looks and feels like a new bill.
where they really get the counterfeiters is the tracking. grocery stores, banks, convenience stores, etc, all their cash is being tracked (the fuck you think serial numbers are for?) when a counterfeiter goes off passing shit, it stands out like night and fucking day. if they move up/down the state, everywhere they spent fakes is fucking obvious. if they stick still, every location they spend those fakes is fucking obvious. that's how they catch people.
instead, they do what has been suspected in floyd's case. ALL OF THIS IS ALLEGEDLY HERE. chauvin and floyd worked security for a club. apparently that club is in a consumer facing group of businesses that were highly suspected of counterfeiting. they'd take the bills and just be handing them out as change, and no one knew the wiser. floyd grabbed a stack and was spending them which would make them extremely trackable (as opposed to handing it out as change, normal ass people would distribute them all over and you could never trace it back). chauvin's job was [allegedly] to make sure floyd died before being able to rat on anyone. when the riots started, literally every business in the group that owned the club they worked at together was burned to ashes. not even a little burned... we're talking all the way down to smoldering shit in the basement after the rest of the place burned down.
Cops were called by shop owners because a large, intimidating man was passing them counterfeit bills, stealing from them, and they did not dare confront the thief themselves.
"we don't accept bills larger than $10"
(I doubt counterfeiters bother with tens)
No they do, and precisely for that reason.
worked retail in a high cash biz years ago.
50s/100s are almost never counterfeit. or if they are, it's really fucking good... holograms, ribbon, pen test. it's too high risk.
so instead they do 10s and 20s that fucking no one tests. ever. and unless it's really fucking shitty, no one is going to even say anything. like one of the big concerns in counterfeiting has always been that bills are actually printed on cloth while counterfeits are usually on paper. cloth lasts longer. but some 16 year old cashier isn't going to tell the difference between good paper and real shit. it just looks and feels like a new bill.
where they really get the counterfeiters is the tracking. grocery stores, banks, convenience stores, etc, all their cash is being tracked (the fuck you think serial numbers are for?) when a counterfeiter goes off passing shit, it stands out like night and fucking day. if they move up/down the state, everywhere they spent fakes is fucking obvious. if they stick still, every location they spend those fakes is fucking obvious. that's how they catch people.
instead, they do what has been suspected in floyd's case. ALL OF THIS IS ALLEGEDLY HERE. chauvin and floyd worked security for a club. apparently that club is in a consumer facing group of businesses that were highly suspected of counterfeiting. they'd take the bills and just be handing them out as change, and no one knew the wiser. floyd grabbed a stack and was spending them which would make them extremely trackable (as opposed to handing it out as change, normal ass people would distribute them all over and you could never trace it back). chauvin's job was [allegedly] to make sure floyd died before being able to rat on anyone. when the riots started, literally every business in the group that owned the club they worked at together was burned to ashes. not even a little burned... we're talking all the way down to smoldering shit in the basement after the rest of the place burned down.