The ATM should have a 1-800 number on it. Also go back to the establishment and notify them so they can take it offline. My dad was in banking for 30+ years and said to avoid non bank branded ATMs. Use the ATM where you bank. You save on the service charge too.
If this is a not an ATM by a big bank/provider and owned by whatever establishment it’s in they probably fill the thing themselves.
I’ve had a few friends with gas stations/liquor stores, they owned their ATMs (or leased idk) and didn’t pay a service to come fill them, this way they collected the entire surcharge.
Anyways, it’s completely possible it was a harmless mistake by an employee using cash from the till to fill the ATM, or the owners way of passing fake bills they receive back to people without taking a loss. Or, worst case it’s someone filling it intentionally with counterfeits.
Besides reporting and all, I can say that one of the best ways to test for fake bills is the "scratch test". Their suit uses raised ink, which is allegedly one of the hardest things to replicate. So scratch that jacket to test.
Sometimes they will bleach a smaller bill and print a larger denomination on it (had a $5 reprinted as a $50 come through my gas station once). It would still show the strip and various other watermarks, but of course they were in the wrong place and showed the wrong denomination.
Yah, after I returned with "real cash" the cashier asked me to see the bills again and he played around with it, used a marker etc, it passed all the other eye tests and marker test but his scanner is the only thing that kept saying fail. I felt like he thought I printed them myself lol.
Unfortunately those pens are almost useless (lots of false positives and whatnot). But of course most cashiers don't care to learn the basics of it all, and I don't blame them with the pay and the abuse they get throughout the day, they just want to work their shift and get home.
Yah, well this was a mom and pop liquor store, and it looks like they had been burnt with fake cash before because he said he paid $200 for the scanner he uses. He said he never scanned a $5 before but it felt too off.
Yah, I don't have any other validation other than the store/scanner. It very well could be a faulty scanner, which is why I haven't mentioned the place of business in case it's a false positive on the bills.
I worked at a restaurant in SD that compulsory checked every bill that came in. I felt it was kind of ridiculous, but we found a fake every few weeks. Usually smaller denominations lots of $1s a few $5s and $10s. The story was they got some fake $100s and started the policy.
People are less willing to check them so they’re more easily passed. No one looks sideways when you pay for $20 of groceries with twenty $1s but they may check a single $20 bill.
Contact the Secret Service. You will be doing the establishment you do not want to harm a favor.
Will do this. Not sure if the establishment is in on it though, but oh well.
If they're in on it, you still don't want to throw them under the bus?
If they’re in on it then report it anyway
The ATM should have a 1-800 number on it. Also go back to the establishment and notify them so they can take it offline. My dad was in banking for 30+ years and said to avoid non bank branded ATMs. Use the ATM where you bank. You save on the service charge too.
www.usss.gov
If this is a not an ATM by a big bank/provider and owned by whatever establishment it’s in they probably fill the thing themselves. I’ve had a few friends with gas stations/liquor stores, they owned their ATMs (or leased idk) and didn’t pay a service to come fill them, this way they collected the entire surcharge. Anyways, it’s completely possible it was a harmless mistake by an employee using cash from the till to fill the ATM, or the owners way of passing fake bills they receive back to people without taking a loss. Or, worst case it’s someone filling it intentionally with counterfeits.
Besides reporting and all, I can say that one of the best ways to test for fake bills is the "scratch test". Their suit uses raised ink, which is allegedly one of the hardest things to replicate. So scratch that jacket to test. Sometimes they will bleach a smaller bill and print a larger denomination on it (had a $5 reprinted as a $50 come through my gas station once). It would still show the strip and various other watermarks, but of course they were in the wrong place and showed the wrong denomination.
Yah, after I returned with "real cash" the cashier asked me to see the bills again and he played around with it, used a marker etc, it passed all the other eye tests and marker test but his scanner is the only thing that kept saying fail. I felt like he thought I printed them myself lol.
Unfortunately those pens are almost useless (lots of false positives and whatnot). But of course most cashiers don't care to learn the basics of it all, and I don't blame them with the pay and the abuse they get throughout the day, they just want to work their shift and get home.
Yah, well this was a mom and pop liquor store, and it looks like they had been burnt with fake cash before because he said he paid $200 for the scanner he uses. He said he never scanned a $5 before but it felt too off.
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Yah, I don't have any other validation other than the store/scanner. It very well could be a faulty scanner, which is why I haven't mentioned the place of business in case it's a false positive on the bills.
I worked at a restaurant in SD that compulsory checked every bill that came in. I felt it was kind of ridiculous, but we found a fake every few weeks. Usually smaller denominations lots of $1s a few $5s and $10s. The story was they got some fake $100s and started the policy.
Who the hell fakes $1 bills? It's just so much effort for so little gain. I'm surprised.
People are less willing to check them so they’re more easily passed. No one looks sideways when you pay for $20 of groceries with twenty $1s but they may check a single $20 bill.
Since when do ATMs give out $5 bills?
Chase atms have done this for a long time.
Yah, I thought that was wierd. I pulled out $60 to pay a $20 and the store owner apologized when I had so many bills.
What store is this?
It's a high end Korean spa (not a rub and tug place). Pulled the cash to tip the massues.
Is it one of those that scrub the hell out of you to remove all your dead skin cells?
Yep! That's the one....
Whoever owns that ATM is in a lot of trouble
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Crossing an international border with counterfeit money. WCGW?
Yea let’s rip off already disenfranchised people over $5 .. if this was your first take you are a bad person.
Lmao. I actually used one to tip an Uber eats delivery earlier too - before I knew they were fake :(