Fake banknotes crop up in Leigh (From Echo)

Its called QE (Quantative Easing) as defined by Mervyn King, Bank of England Governor. Supposed to stimulate the economy according to politicians & bankers so Ok for them to do it. For anybody else its called forgery.

I'm surprised any fake notes manage to get through shops these days with all the technology available and the Supermarket Note Police who have to be called over each time you get a £50 note out your pocket! Makes you feel like a criminal for owning one!

Remove cash from society and you remove lots of crime. If all transactions are electronic then they can all be traced. The benefits agency can see who is working while they are claiming. Selling or buying stolen goods or drugs will become much more difficult and traceable. It won't solve everything, but it will be a start.

those fifteen pound notes are pretty convincing I must admit, not as good as the thirty pound notes though...

these fake £20's are all over south essex / east london at the moment. they are apparently being sold for as little as £3 each. they are poor quality fakes and easy to spot though. be careful.

i think we should have been told straight away so that we could watch out for any given to US by the shops. They often palm off a foreign coin if you are not looking at your change.

Fake £20 Fake Police Officers (PCSO)

Talk about pot kettle

Nebs wrote:
Remove cash from society and you remove lots of crime. If all transactions are electronic then they can all be traced. The benefits agency can see who is working while they are claiming. Selling or buying stolen goods or drugs will become much more difficult and traceable. It won't solve everything, but it will be a start.

Welcome to the NWO!

Removing cash from society may remove lots of cash crime but it would also increase card crime, including cloned cards, identity theft, electronic transfer hacking company/shop errors and god forbid if the banks were ever to make an error. (Unheard of ) lol.
As for tracing, you may be able to trace the transaction but criminals also have the ability to hide where the money goes and I am pretty sure they don't all use their real names and addresses

SUFC1906 wrote:
Its called QE (Quantative Easing) as defined by Mervyn King, Bank of England Governor. Supposed to stimulate the economy according to politicians & bankers so Ok for them to do it. For anybody else its called forgery.

EXCELLENT! lol

has anyone got a seven and a six pound note they could for change this thirteen pound note I've got?

Minceir wrote:

Nebs wrote:
Remove cash from society and you remove lots of crime. If all transactions are electronic then they can all be traced. The benefits agency can see who is working while they are claiming. Selling or buying stolen goods or drugs will become much more difficult and traceable. It won't solve everything, but it will be a start.

Welcome to the NWO!

I'm certainly in favour of non cash wage and benefit payments. It has worked well in many other European countries. The proof of identity required when opening a bank account should be sufficient to see such a system work here. Those fraudulently drawing benefits won't be keen on the idea I'm sure but you can't please everyone.