Bank of Canada Survey

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Last week I got a phone call from a survey robot. It turns out that they were doing a survey on behalf of the Bank of Canada and the focus was on counterfeiting.

Although I did not capture the exact text of each question. The following provides the essence of each of the questions.

How likely do you believe you are to get a counterfeit bill?

How much of a problem is counterfeiting of Canadian bills?

How likely do you think cash using method results in fraud?

How likely do you believe that there are systems in place for controlling that protect you from receiving counterfeit bills.

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I am assuming I was randomly chosen although I have corresponded with BoC on previous occasions on matters of currency and they do have my phone number.

On the spur of the moment I thought of jotting down the questions as they were being asked to share it with members here.

Thanks. That is interesting.

This is interesting.  I was in a store the other day, and asked if they had received any old notes lately.  They told me they don't accept anything before the journey series due to counterfeiting.  She told me specially the five dollar birds, because they don't have the security foil.  Very strange I thought, the five would be the least counterfeited.

I know some places don't take the larger denominations due to counterfeiting, but I don't think this is as big of a worry for the new polymer notes?  At least, not that I am hearing from the general public.

The pre-security journey  notes were counterfeited quite a lot as well as the birds twenties