Ahahahaha

[akujunkan]

I brought about $2,000 US along with me for the China trip, exchanging one half of that at the airport in Osaka. The money was handed to me in sealed packets of ten 100 yuan bills - about $125 US.

Today at the Silk Market I opened one of those packets - one of the few remaining to me - and cleverly managed to rip the serial numbers off of the bills while I was at it. Counterfeiting is a huge problem in this country, and if one's 100 yuan bills are not in pristine condition, they won't be accepted.

I am now trying to sneak the ruined bills into larger purchases like the con artist they all think I am. Ahahaha.

That will be all.

Comments

[amasugiru.livejournal.com]

I ripped a 100yuan bill in half... I couldn't sneak that one in if I wanted.

One scam we found out the hard way is you give a cabby a bill and he pretends to look for change. If you aren't paying attention he will switch it will a fake bill and say he doesn't have the proper change.

It happened to my friend. We came back to Japan with one bill split in two and another a counterfit.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I found out that as long as you have both halves of the bill and go to a reasonably large bank, they'll exchange it for you.

I actually had someone at the Silk Market try to scam me out of 200 yuan I accidentally handed to them, but luckily I caught it in time.

Sucks that you were hit with the fakes though:(

[ishuka.livejournal.com]

I am now trying to sneak the ruined bills into larger purchases like the con artist they all think I am. Ahahaha.

me: *dies laughing*