Phony Baht?

[craig]

Early this Wednesday afternoon my Thai wife and were leaving Tesco when we noticed a number of policemen gathered at the ATMs outside the building. Four of them were taking pictures of a 1000 baht bill. Someone had opened up an ATM and police were watching...a foreign couple stood with two policemen watching. A few minutes later a policeman talked to the foreign male and the foreigner produced, what appeared to be, his passport. I checked the websites for the local papers and a local forum...no mention of this.

My guess is that the guy bought something and the staff noticed a bogus bill...

I'm just wondering what would happen if the foreigner claimed he withdrew money from the bank's ATM and has withdrawal receipt. An hour or so before this I took out 20,000 baht from the Siam Commercial Bank's ATM upstair in Tesco...my wife checked the bills...all seem OK.

[DonTron]

I took out money about a week ago from "Bank of Ayudhya"'s ATM on Naklua Road - they contained one fake 1000 Baht bill.

So be careful out there...

[basjke]

I took out money about a week ago from "Bank of Ayudhya"'s ATM on Naklua Road - they contained one fake 1000 Baht bill.

So be careful out there...

Would you mind to tell us what happened to the bogus note?

[anothertorres]

I took out money about a week ago from "Bank of Ayudhya"'s ATM on Naklua Road - they contained one fake 1000 Baht bill.

So be careful out there...

and what did you do with the fake bill?