I am going to present a little, true, story about clerks/cashiers and counterfeit money.

[niyad]

Many, many years ago, when I was in Lake Tahoe, there was a counterfeit ring that started operating at one point. Casinos were always handy targets, because of the LARGE amounts of cash that flowed through them. Several stories ran in the papers about these counterfeit bills, including pictures of some of the bills. .in black and white, on newsprint. A few days later, there were follow-up stories. . .about the newspaper pictures of those bills showing up in cash registers in the area. People just shook their heads.

A number of years later, in Reno, still another counterfeit ring hit those casinos. The cashiers I trained never got a counterfeit bill, because I had drilled them in what to look for, and how to generally have the counterfeiters avoid you. (no, mickey mouse is NOT on the $20, and Harrison Ford is NOT on the C-note!). Of course, I also trained them in the various scams that the scumbags try to pull on cashiers.

I am guessing that some things don't change very much. Are cashiers/clerks even trained in these basics these days? It would be interesting to see just how many people were affected by this little sleazoid's disgusting scam. May he reap all the consequences.