A 24-year-old Filipino man was arrested and charged with using forged banknotes in Macau on Monday. The migrant worker employed as a cleaner went to a snack shop in Centro area and handed a HK$1,000 (US$127) note to a shopkeeper for a HK$15 food bill, the Macau Daily News reported.
When staff were about to hand him the change, the man handed them another HK$1,000 note and asked if they could change it into small-denomination notes. The staff complied and handed the man a total of HK$1,985 and he left the shop.
The staff later discovered the two HK$1,000 were fakes and called police.
After an investigation, police arrested the Filipino man on Monday at his workplace and charged him with one count of fraud and using a counterfeit banknote. He was sent to the public prosecution office on Wednesday.
He told police he knew the banknotes were fake when he picked them up on a street. It is believed that fake notes were used by bank staff to practice how to count money quickly by hand and people could easily get a stack of them from online shopping site TaoBao.com.
Alam na fake Bat gagamitin pa d kulong ka
nakalusot na yung isa. dinagdagan pa nya. napaka swapang …
bilis ng karma…
Ooh. Too bad. Myrun plng ganun.
Alam nmn pla na fake….bkit gnmit pa….
alam mo na nga na fake sana hindi mo na tinangkang manloko pa.pasaway ka rin e.