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[email protected] Verified Print Quantity 25 000 newspapers per week www.platinumweekly.co.za | Find us on @ Platinum Weekly Newspaper 20 AUGUST 2021 Fake cash doing the rounds Clever shopkeeper “I know their modus operandi by now, they come in, take one beer and then try to pay with a wrote ‘fake’ R200 note. This man followed suit and The when he handed my wife the note, she on it perpetrator first tried could feel it just didn’t feel right. Once she his luck at a tuisnywerheid checked it under the light, she confirmed her where the owner chased him away. suspicions and called me,” he said. One of the counterfeit notes that the fraudster tried to use. He then proceeded to a biltong shop Having dealt with these situations in the Koster/ where, once again, the owner suspected past, Carel took the money and actually Derby/ something might be wrong and refused to wrote with word FAKE in big letters on it. Rustenburg – Businesses take the money. He finally met his match “By doing this, it prevents the person from must be careful of unscrupulous at the liquor store next door. The owner of just moving on until he finds someone willing fraudsters offering counterfeit money as the store, Carel van Heerden has had a to take the money.” payment for products and services. This few run ins with people offering counterfeit Banks refuse to take the counterfeit cash warning comes after several businesses money and accordingly, all the notes that resulting in business owners losing money.