Criminals are taking $5 and $10 billsand turning them into $100 bills#news #shorts

Police want to warn you about it's a new way they're discovering counterfeit money. Take a look and see if you can tell the difference.

We use the counterfeit pin.

It's a well-known way of finding fake bills. The counterfeit pin. Something the owner here at Bullwinkle's Family Restaurant relies on.

You definitely don't want to get any counterfeit bills.

It's out of your pocket.

But this tool to stay safe won't work on all counterfeit bills. The pens don't work on it because it is actual currency. Specifically, bleached bills.

The bleaching is new to me.

That's something officers here in Seymour are seeing for the first time.

They're using a bleaching solution to bleach the ink off of 1's, 5's, 10's and then replacing that with 20's, 50's, 100's.

Police say a lot of times they're seeing these counterfeit bills being used in places like Starbucks or gas stations. Any place that's busy or crowded with a lot of people coming and going. They're cracking down after finding these just a few weeks ago. They're cracking down after finding these just a few weeks ago. Though these might look like $100 bills, they're actually only $10.