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'Bleached Benjamins' used to scam stores

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    Counterfeit money ring turns 5 dollar note into 100 dollar bills

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If -- CEO it's real.

Or so they thought workers at this -- off pharmacy found out their counterfeit detector and couldn't detect counterfeit they were suspicious they did the right thing and we -- Cops are looking for this guy caught on surveillance who paid for -- eight dollar day -- with a phony hundred dollar bill the owner didn't realize it was a fake until the bank told him.

It's very frustrating at this point now you can't even rely more what's the point -- the market.

Police chief Benjamin fox tells -- the detection -- showed it was real because the paper is real it's the denomination that isn't.

-- -- bleaching out five dollar bills.

They're taking bullying -- -- -- a good five dollar bill and and they reprinted as -- 100 dollar bill.

He says the best way to check of the bill is -- is to look for the watermark you can see on this counterfeit hundred while Benjamin Franklin's portrait is on the left.

That's Abraham Lincoln in the water -- -- is on the five dollar bill the watermark can't be a race through bleaching.

And look for the correct watermark on the paper.

-- foxes these -- Benjamin's have been turning up all over north Jersey.

The message is nothing new to the Secret Service which investigates counterfeits specially -- -- Christine says you need to know your money.

We really endorse looking at the quality of the the portrait looking at the treasury seal.

And if it doesn't look great -- you it probably isn't right.

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