$ 10 dollars fake note

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And another one, fake Journey 2001 $10 with prefix SHB, spotted at Ottawa airport. This one had wrong font as well.

I usually spend 20 dollar bills even for small purchases and receive a few 5's and 10's in change every week. Over last 2 years I've been given 4 fake 10's in change, and no fake 5's. I wonder if fake 5's will soon surface, now that most of older style 10's are gone.

Got 7 fake Journey $5 bills at work last week- all in the same day!

They are out there!

This is in Victoria, BC

Cheers,

Fenian

What were the characteristics?
Please let us know so we can be aware.
Thanks.
Hudson

The notes actually looked fairly good- the big tip-off was that each note was about 1mm shorter and 2mm less wide than the normal notes, and the security fibres looked a little off. We find them with a counterfeit detector that tests the paper itself, not watermarks and embedded fibres...  If I get another one, I will see if I can buy it off the person and post a scan here.

Fenian

The notes actually looked fairly good- the big tip-off was that each note was about 1mm shorter and 2mm less wide than the normal notes, and the security fibres looked a little off. We find them with a counterfeit detector that tests the paper itself, not watermarks and embedded fibres...  If I get another one, I will see if I can buy it off the person and post a scan here.

Fenian

Do you know what the prefixes were?

And did the color wear off? place the bill face down on regular paper, and dig a little bit of fingernail into the shoulder part of Laurier-then drag it-- the blue SHOULD rub off it it is real.

Font?  Same or different?
Thanks,
Hudson

Didn't get much of a chance to play with them- people took them and stormed off in a huff. I was told that four of the seven came straight from a bank! The font on the one I got a decent look at was slightly different, a bit larger and (I think) lighter. I am going to leave some money at work and ask my co-workers to offer to buy one for face value and set it aside for me, so I can scan and post it here.

Fenian

Fenian what is it that you do? you seem to see a lot of fakes.

anyone know of prov/city statistics for fakes

I work as a cashier in a fairly busy store... As I said, we run each bill through a detection machine, regardless of denomination. The cluster I got could have been as a result of one person locally. What I would like to know is how many people actually check $5 bills? There could be more out there than we think, since we are the only store I know of in Victoria who rountinely check all five dollar bills...

Fenian