BEWARE of Counterfeit 1,000 Baht Bills!

[Snick]

If you are in Thailand be aware of Counterfeit 1000 Baht notes, seems there are a lot of them out there right now.

This website shows some examples, the top picture is real, the one below it is a fake.

http://absolutelybangkok.com/necessi....t-notes

[kahuna]

I use them to pay the counterfeit girls...

[Snick]

17 Minutes !, I was wondering how long it would take get a response like that.
Congratulations you win 100,000 Baht

[Stogie]

100,000 baht! That's great... Where do I... hey - wait a second...

[rxpharm]

This subject actually should be somewhere else - not really to do with lbs - but Fish Box is not appropriate either - how about Life and Living in Thailand?

[stonefre]

If moved anywhere to Travel information. It needs to be somewhere it can been seen easily by everyone who might visit LOS as I think it is important information.

[Stogie]

My instinct was to move this but as Snick probably thought this is great timely advice which should be seen by many people...

We'll move it in a couple of days after a couple of 'bumps!'

Thanks Snick for a useful post... I bet it saves a few of us from being conned over the next few weeks or so.  

[Stogie]

Fake banknotes flood city as recession grips

Warning to be alert over festive period

Thousands of counterfeit banknotes, particularly 1,000-baht bills, are likely to go into circulation over the New Year period, the Bank of Thailand (BoT) warned yesterday.

Nopporn Pramojaney, the BoT's assistant governor for note-printing, warned consumers and businesses to watch out for odd-looking notes during the holiday season.

He said counterfeit notes in circulation increased by 80% this year, possibly as a consequence of hard economic times.

In the 12 months to the end of November, the BoT had confiscated 18,895 fake notes - compared with 10,819 notes seized in the same period last year. Most fake notes were 1,000-baht bills, which accounted for 61% of seized notes.

Mr Nopporn said that for every one million banknotes in circulation, up to 7,000 of those would be fakes.

More counterfeit notes were expected to enter circulation next year due to the economic recession.

Pol Lt-Gen Danaithorn Wongthai, chief of the Office of Police Forensic Science has given some tips for the public to differentiate real banknotes from fake ones.

A real banknote bears the watermark of His Majesty the King, which can only be seen when it is held up to the light. The picture of the King, the letters and the digits showing the value on the real note have an embossed feel.

Notes of 1,000-baht, 500-baht and 100-baht value have reflective and holographic metallic strips.

Police Region 1 recently arrested four people including a former school director, for banknote forgery, and seized 203 fake 1,000-baht notes.

Police also confiscated three compressed bricks of marijuana weighing 3kg from the suspects.

Pol Lt-Gen Chalong Sonjai, Police Region 1 commissioner, said the suspects used the fake notes to pay for drugs they bought in Laos.

In Phuket, police arrested three people and seized three fake 1,000-baht notes in Thalang district on Wednesday.

Pol Col Thammanoon Faiju, superintendent of Thalang police station, said forged bills were often used at nightspots, petrol stations or grocery stores popular with the elderly...

Original article from the Bangkok Post is HERE!

[stonefre]

I'll be inspecting my money closely this upcoming trip though I usually get my cash from ATM's and usually only get small bills as change from the 1000 baht notes I get from the ATM's. Anyone ever hear of anyone getting fakes from ATM's?

[Stogie]

(stonefre @ Dec. 19 2008,22:13) Anyone ever hear of anyone getting fakes from ATM's?

No... It's next to impossible, too... even in Thailand!

The machines can't count them.

[Foggy]

That's great info and some thing every one should be aware of. Being worst for ware on a few occasions you really need to keep a close look out with the change ( if there's a 500 baht note involved)..

Is there a pen like in the UK for detecting bad one's, as a posed to just looking.. ??

[dutch]

One shorttime less ....  

[thedeno]

Stickman was warning about this over a month ago....

http://www.stickmanweekly.com/StickM...CowboyScam.htm

[dutch]

(thedeno @ Dec. 19 2008,19:57) Stickman was warning about this over a month ago....

http://www.stickmanweekly.com/StickM...CowboyScam.htm

Could be, because I got my 1000 Bath note in the beginning of October.

[Guest]

The same shite happens in Las Vegas around the holiday time. Received lots of these phonies after gambling and drinking too much!!