Fraudsters seek to adulterate high denomination bills in order to profit from their tricks. In recent weeks, a national alert has been created with los 100,000 pesos bills, from the 1883 series, with which many people have been deceived.
Not even ATMs have been spared from the modalities of supplanting bills, since some time ago a woman from Barranquilla denounced that when withdrawing one million pesos, from the Caja Social bank, He got 20 counterfeit 50,000-peso bills with the same serial number and no watermark.
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Thus, the Colombian authorities alerted citizens to carefully review the 100,000, 50,000 and 20,000 pesos bills, the ones that are most often counterfeited by criminals.
50,000 bills fakes are more real: video shows what they changed
Through a video published on social networks, the owner of a business in the city of Cali showed the new method of counterfeiting that they are using in Colombia to deceive citizens.
The man says that they put a fake 50,000 peso bill in him, but he makes a comparison with a real one. There he commented that the paper used by criminals closely resembles that used by the Bank of the Republic for the printing of the national currency.
It also shows that not even the marker to detect counterfeit bills can recognize them. For that reason, he gave three ‘tips’ with which it could be easier to identify them:
- The paper of counterfeit bills is thicker than the traditional one, so it should feel a little softer to the touch.
- The hologram on the front should change color with light and give a higher shine immediately.
- All the strokes and features of the figure of ‘Gabo’ must be perfectly appreciated on the front, like her wrinkles, sparkle in her eyes and other details on her face.
The Twitter account of Radius Snail Cali (@Caracol_Cali) shared the video in which The merchant teaches how to recognize a fake bill from a real 50,000 peso bill:
➡️ #RedesSociales ???? | Not even with the marker to detect bills can these fake 50 thousand pesos bills be recognized, which would be circulating in cities such as Cali, Medellín and Bogotá, a citizen video explains how to recognize them
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– Caracol Radio Cali (@Caracol_Cali) October 15, 2022