i am trying to get reimbursed. haven’t succeeded yet.

the atm is on linyedaxuebei lu, haidian district beijing. it is in the university area of beijing, just north of beijing forestry university.

serial number on both fakes is TE61925810.

anyone else get these?

x0123×0123@gmail.com

The ton of fake bills stopped after a bunch of televised investigations resulting in the busting of a large scale counterfeiting operation.

My opinion is that real chinese money is too easy to counterfeit, even real money has a cheapish feel to it

I belive you it has happend to me and my friends , it is always bank of china . i been living in china for 6 years and this happend 3 times to me. i know it is the atm since i always remember the 3 last numbers in the serial number on the bill. I have talked to bank of china but ofcourse they say i got the money from somewhere else . (what else would they say…) But an other problem i had 4 times is when i try to withdrawal money from my oversea visa card the money got sent over to the ATM and then i can hear the ATM counting the money and suddenly there is an message comming up transaction faild, so i feel strange . i take the customer advice and phone my bank up in Sweden they fax over an statement proving that the money that i tryed to withdrawal has been payed out by the bank of china ATM . so with those two papers i go to the bank talking to the staff and they say that it is not the bank of china problem , the problem must be in the Swedish bank ..And after talking to the bank in sweden i go back to the bank of china trying get my money back , they say that if there been an misstake the money will be sent back to my account in 3 working days . but no money came . this happend 3 times and every singel time i lost my money . Today the same problem happend again. this time 2500rmb . the bank was closed so i could not deal with it today .I guess that the problem is when i use an oversea card and try to withdrawal money . the monitor say enter amount so i type in the amount then the ATM dials up my bank an the money is sent to that ATM , after that the ATM computer counts the money ,the ATM computer discover that there is not enugh money in the ATM and the transaction is rejected .But the ATM does not know how to send back the money to my oversea acccount .So the money got stock in the ATM. Again everytime i got told to wait 3 days and the money will be returned, but it does not happend !
If anyone had this problem please let me know !

chinadragontrade@yahoo.com

cheers Nicklas Bergner /Guang zhou China

The source of the counterfeit money is from interbank and large cash exchanges accepted by the banks. This is in contrast to the meticulous checking by the tellers when receiving money from normal customers.

There is no “running of the bills” thru the bill checker before placing the cash in the ATMs. Thus the occasional corruption in banks gets transferred to poor unprotected individuals.

The other point also is that the switch may also have been done by the waitress. I had a waitress once point out to me how to give a 100 bill at a restaurant. She said, you say the last few digits of the serial number to the waitress and she confirms it, then takes it away. Making a switch hard.

You might think this much too paranoid, or bothersome, but it can be done very quickly in a few-second exchange and they actually are quite accustomed to it. I still don’t though, the trusting fool that I am. I check every 50 note though, and sometimes hand it back just for the heck of it!!

Most of the counterfeit money come from Taiwan. Lots of fisherman from Taiwan transport the counterfeit RMB to China and sell it pennies on the dollar. Local authorithy is not doing their job….