Fake £20 notes-Facebook market place

Fake £20 notes-Facebook market place

Good morning 

Recently a resident from Uttoxeter sold a mobile phone on Facebook market place. After agreeing a date/time to collect the item,  the ‘buyer’ handed over cash to purchase the mobile phone.  When the cash was handed to the Post Office to bank the money, it was pointed out by the staff that the cash was counterfeit banknotes. Unfortunately this was a substantial amount of money. 

More of us now are handling cash less a lot less than what we used to which can result in being unfamiliar with what might be fake notes.   

Please have a quick look on Counterfeit banknotes | Bank of England – the UK's central bank

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/counterfeit-banknotes

There is advice on the Bank of England website which may you identify what are real or fake notes 

Kind regards 

PCSO Costas Karpi