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Posted 06/30/2021 1:45 pm
For anyone interested in my ongoing counterfeit toonie saga, here is what happened when I took them back to the bank.
Last Wednesday I took my $272 worth of counterfeit toonies back to the branch that gave them to me. The teller was amazed. We spent a bunch of time dropping to them and listening to the different sound they make and I showed him all the ways that you could identify a fake. He had never seen one and hadn't heard much about them. He brought the branch manager over. He also had never seen one but said they had received information on them but that it was a couple years ago. He couldn't believe that there were that many at once. Other tellers then came over to look at them as well. At first the branch manager was a bit confrontational because I had taken the rolls out about 2 months ago but never got around to going through them until recently. Once we spent time looking at them though, I think he realized I probably wasn't a counterfeiter (and if I was, I was either the dumbest counterfeiter ever, or the smartest - you could argue both ways). He didn't know what to do so he issued me a receipt for the $272 and said he would have to talk to the head office about what to do. He said he would call me back in a day or 2. A week passed and I hadn't heard anything so I called. He was on vacation. I left a message with the customer service manager and today she called me back. She said they were still trying to figure out what to do with head office but she was going to deposit the money in my account.
So it all worked out in the end.
Last Wednesday I took my $272 worth of counterfeit toonies back to the branch that gave them to me. The teller was amazed. We spent a bunch of time dropping to them and listening to the different sound they make and I showed him all the ways that you could identify a fake. He had never seen one and hadn't heard much about them. He brought the branch manager over. He also had never seen one but said they had received information on them but that it was a couple years ago. He couldn't believe that there were that many at once. Other tellers then came over to look at them as well. At first the branch manager was a bit confrontational because I had taken the rolls out about 2 months ago but never got around to going through them until recently. Once we spent time looking at them though, I think he realized I probably wasn't a counterfeiter (and if I was, I was either the dumbest counterfeiter ever, or the smartest - you could argue both ways). He didn't know what to do so he issued me a receipt for the $272 and said he would have to talk to the head office about what to do. He said he would call me back in a day or 2. A week passed and I hadn't heard anything so I called. He was on vacation. I left a message with the customer service manager and today she called me back. She said they were still trying to figure out what to do with head office but she was going to deposit the money in my account.
So it all worked out in the end.
