16 May, 2002: This one's on me

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Here's a really good scam which I read about in Stephen Jory's book about currency forgery, Funny Money. It turns out that many of their forged £20 notes were sold to taxi drivers, who used them to defraud their customers.

The way it works is as follows:

Cunning, but it hasn't improved my opinion of taxi drivers any.


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