[Press Release] : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Businesses Beware of Counterfeit 20's

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Officer Latisha Stroer, Public Information Officer
Columbia Police Department
600 E. Walnut
Columbia, MO 65201
(573)874-7448
lmstroer at gocolumbiamo.com

Businesses Beware of Counterfeit 20's

COLUMBIA, MO (May 19, 2011) - Columbia Missouri Police Department

600 East Walnut  Street  ∙  Columbia, MO  65201

            (573) 874-7652  ∙  www.GoColumbiaMo.com

       

Media Release  ~  5/19/2011

 

Businesses Beware of Counterfeit 20's

 

 The Columbia Police Department has taken numerous reports over the past couple of days of counterfeit twenty dollar bills. The counterfeit 20's have been passed in different businesses at different locations in town. We are asking businesses to take a little more time in checking the security features of U.S. currency to help deter counterfeiting. The security features to the U.S. currency has been in place since the 1990's.  The three most important and easy to check  security features on U.S. currency are: the watermark, the security thread, and the color shifting ink. The United States Secret Service website is www.secretservice.gov and it tells you how to detect counterfeit money.

 

If anyone has any information about subjects who are counterfeiting money or you have received counterfeit money please contact the Columbia Police Department or 875-TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.

 

 


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