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If The Bank Hands You A Counterfeit Bill, You're Probably Stuck With It
While financial institutions often go through various security checks to make sure that the $50 and $100 bills you hand to them are genuine, most consumers will accept these same bills from banks...
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Customer Sues Walmart Because Cashiers Shouldn't Rip Up Two $100 Bills...
Anyone who has paid for a purchase with a $100 bill is probably familiar with the various methods that stores have for validating the authenticity of the note. But one Texas woman says she was publicly...
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All Maple Trees Are Not The Same: Botanists Say Canada’s New Currency...
(Xiaozhuli) Canada is having a rough go of this whole “print new money and make sure it won’t melt” thing already, and now it sounds like there’s even more currency confusion. Botanists up north are...
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UPDATE: Bank Says $1,400 In Counterfeit Bills Weren’t Counterfeit After All
(WBZ-TV)Yesterday, we told you about the Massachusetts man who withdrew $1,800 from Sovereign Bank, then took it over to pay his mortgage at Citizens Bank, only to have $1,400 of it confiscated for...
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Man Wants To Be The First To Sell A House For Bitcoins Because Real Money Is...
(Don Hankins) We are living in a digital world. If you need evidence, take a second to realize that you are reading these words on a screen. And also that someone is trying to sell a house for virtual...
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Servers Sue Wolfgang Puck Catering Company Claiming It’s Skimmed Tips Since 2008
(avitania) If you’ve got the bucks, you can get celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck’s food at your private event. The Wolfgang Puck Catering & Events company bears a famous name, and now it’s being blamed...
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Would You Reject A Brown Nickel? Asking For A Friend (The U.S. Mint)
(oneiroi) First of all, we’re not really friends with the U.S. Mint because it’s not a person and besides, we’ve never met it and thus have no idea if it would even laugh at all our jokes or if it...
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Bitcoin: What The Heck Is It, And How Does It Work?
(Great Beyond)The world of finance and economics is pretty complicated as-is, and now there’s “digital money” in the mix making it even worse. Bitcoin is everywhere in the news lately, from hacks to...
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Taco Bell Bosses Accused Of Forcing Worker To Give Customers Fake Money As...
(frankieleon) We would all be a lot richer if we could each invent our own money but alas, that’s just not how it works (I’d be a millionaire if only I could buy stuff with high fives, sigh). Which is...
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Man Claims Bank Gave Him $1,400 In Counterfeit Bills Which Don’t Work When...
Believe us when we say using Monopoly money in the real world is a sure way to fail. And even if your money isn’t hued funny, if it’s fake, it won’t fly. One man is blaming a local bank for his...
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