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Taxi drivers, city residents alerted of fake banknotes
The FM91 traffic station Monday warned the public about strangers passing fake banknotes. Radio station executive Jaiton Sriwangpol said the 1644 hotline had received 57 complaints from August 1-January 31.
Of the total victims, 50 were taxi drivers, three were taxi passengers and four gas station employees. The bogus bills came in denominations of Bt20, Bt50, Bt100 and Bt1,000.
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Bangkok Taxi drivers, city residents alerted of fake banknotes
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:15 PM
camerata, on 09 February 2010 - 11:00 AM, said:
The bogus bills came in denominations of Bt20, Bt50, Bt100 and Bt1,000.
I wonder how much it costs to produce bogus baht 20,- bills...even baht 1000,-, which is only USD 30,- or so cannot be the big business.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:17 PM
Presumably the idea is for the people running the scam to hire a lot of little punks cheaply and have them take short taxi rides and buy cheap items and pay with high denomonation bills - but not too high so as not to arouse suspicion. Their change is then of course legit. I imagine your earnings would rapidly add up that way.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 10:07 PM
It's not a bad idea to give him a fake banknote as tip for a crazy drive, if he has no change for the genuine banknote 
#6
Posted 10 February 2010 - 12:41 AM
Well, it's typical money laundering. I don't see it as anything special.. 
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Posted 10 February 2010 - 06:00 AM
yohan, on 09 February 2010 - 12:15 PM, said:
I wonder how much it costs to produce bogus baht 20,- bills...even baht 1000,-, which is only USD 30,- or so cannot be the big business.
Probably a VERY bad copy. Would probably stand out like dog's ba!!$ in daylight.
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