Changhua police uncovered a toy counterfeit banknote syndicate and arrested nine people, who produced counterfeit thousand-dollar toy banknotes "HR484268XD".

(Photo by reporter Tang Shiming)

[Reporters Tang Shiming, Lin Liangzhe/Changhua Report] The thousand-yuan counterfeit banknotes that flowed in Changhua and Yunlin before the New Year’s Eve, after several days of investigation by the Changhua police, found that a group of young men were responsible. The leader, a man surnamed Luo, had just turned 20 Years old, but the criminal is very cunning. He will use the method of multiple people to spend money from the merchant at the same time, so that the other party is too busy to check the authenticity of the banknotes. As a result, he succeeded in many cases; the police seized nine people and brought them to the case. Transfer the crime to the law.

Buy toy banknotes online for 5 yuan each to buy 90 pieces

A vendor at the night market in Yongjing Township, Changhua County reported to the police that a group of young people came on the 1st of this month and each took out thousand-yuan bills to ask for change at almost the same time. The serial numbers are all "HR484268XD".

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Another victim checked the serial number "HR484268XD" and found that the number is homonymous for "Are you going to send me?" According to the Taizhou dialect of Zhejiang, China, "268" means "fool", which means "Are you a fool?" Meaningful.

Many people spend change money at the same time and exchange counterfeit banknotes for real ones

The police used surveillance cameras to chase people. On the 10th of this month, they went to a construction site in Taichung City to arrest the main suspect named Luo. Eight other members of the group were also arrested. Six of them were minors. The police arrested ten people at the same time. Five counterfeit toy banknotes that were too late to be used; the witnesses testified that the batch of counterfeit banknotes were toy banknotes. They bought a total of 90 counterfeit banknotes through the Internet at a price of five yuan each, and all the stolen money was spent.

Zhang Anjin, deputy head of the Criminal Police Brigade of Changhua County, said that the seized counterfeit banknotes had small red seals of "toy banknotes". Just look at it, touch it, and turn it around" to tell the authenticity from the fake.

Article 196, Item 1 of the Criminal Law stipulates that those who forge or alter banknotes shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.

The police said that the young man arrested in this case committed the crime of using counterfeit currency with a three-year prison sentence for greed for small profits.