Fraudulent Crime With Deutschmarks In The Netherlands

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UltraRant Pillar of the Community Norway 1358 Posts	Posted 05/02/2016 09:11 am Fortunately no one was killed in Holland, but someone got arrested for a monetary crime, though. (you may want to use Google translate or so, as the article is in Dutch). http://nos.nl/artikel/2098549-man-p...-zwolle.html Apparently a 22 year old man tried to exchange 100.000 old German Mark (in cash) to Euro (worth about 50.000 Euro) in Zwolle, The Netherlands. As it's quite uncommon these days to see such large quantities of the former German currency, the employee of the exchange office got a tad skeptical and did some extra tests on the currency. It turned out that the bank notes were fake. The employee alarmed the police and the man got arrested. The last day for exchange of bank notes actually varies per country. Dutch Gulden notes can be exchanged until 2027, while there's no final date set for German Marks. Coins can't be exchanged for Euros anymore. Edited by UltraRant 05/02/2016 09:15 am Report this Post to the Staff

bpoc1 Rest in Peace United States 4078 Posts	Posted 05/02/2016 3:39 pm Thanks for posting. Report this Post to the Staff
CelticKnot Bedrock of the Community United States 12887 Posts	Posted 05/02/2016 11:53 pm Interesting. I can imagine there's a lot of appeal for counterfeiters trying to take advantage of currency exchange programs like this. Edited by CelticKnot 05/03/2016 4:32 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 05/03/2016 2:14 pm Yes and there will probably be more of it because after 14 years there are a lot of people that never saw or used D-marks and wouldn't recognize them as fakes. Report this Post to the Staff
UltraRant Pillar of the Community Norway 1358 Posts	Posted 05/07/2016 3:06 pm @Conder101: I think that that is exactly what happened. He probably would have gotten away with it when just exchanging 1000 or an odd number at the time at different locations, I guess. So all praise to the employee of that exchange office. :) Report this Post to the Staff
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