Counterfeit money keeps appearing in shopping malls
The counterfeit banknote used by the subject to buy goods at Miniso was discovered by a bank employee (Photo provided by the victim) |
An employee at the transaction office of Vietnam Technological and Commercial Bank (Techcombank) Phu My Hung branch said that real polymer money has high elasticity and durability. Money easily returns to its original state after being rounded, or held into a lump. Money is also very difficult to tear, fade, deform…
So far, counterfeit money discovered during transactions at the counter is often printed on nylon, so it has no elasticity, poor durability, is easy to deform, loses color when stretched… “What’s worrying is that The fake banknotes that customers buy at Miniso have the same elasticity as real money. It is difficult for salespeople to recognize,” said the employee.
According to Miniso Store, it is possible that subjects who want to consume counterfeit money choose to buy goods during peak hours, when crowded customers catch them off guard.
Ms. Ha Kieu – fashion business in Taka (district 1, Ho Chi Minh City) was also a victim when some subjects used a VND 500,000 bill to pay for a shirt costing about VND 150,000. “This subject also asked me to transfer 2 million dong to my account and then give me cash. But because I was holding too much cash, I refused, otherwise I might have “hug” a bunch of fake money without knowing …” – Ms. Kieu recounted.
Not long ago, an employee of a Vinmart store (Hanoi) also discovered a woman named Nguyen Thi Hong Loan, using two fake bills with a face value of 500,000 VND to pay and report to the police. Loan said that a young man gave her 2 million fake coins for circulation, for each 500,000 counterfeit coin bill circulated, the subject would receive 200,000 real coins back.
The HCM City Police Department said that the feature to identify counterfeit polymer banknotes with a face value of 500,000 VND is that this money is printed with the series: DA, FC, PK, YF. But recently, this counterfeit bill has a serial rhyme of JK (Photo provided by the victim). |
In recent years, the problem of selling fake money is still rampant on the social network Facebook. Most of the sites claim that the fake money is like real money from 97% or more, customers only need to deposit 20-50% of real money and they will be delivered fake money by hand. For every 1 million real coins, you can buy 10-15 million fake coins (depending on the place).
Ho Chi Minh City police information, recently, the tricks of criminals to print fake money with large denominations of 500,000 VND and 200,000 VND increasingly complex and sophisticated. People need to be careful.
Buying and selling counterfeit money is illegal and criminally handled. Specifically, the act of making, storing, transporting and circulating counterfeit money can be punished with imprisonment from 3 to 20 years or life in prison. The act of texting, asking for prices, making deposits, or exchanging with counterfeit money points with the intention of buying counterfeit money will also be prosecuted for not reporting crimes. “And the act of knowing it is fake money but using that money to buy goods can also be criminally prosecuted for fraud and appropriation of property” – Ho Chi Minh City Police warned.
(According to Women in HCMC)
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