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Connecting Global News & Views For The Community UK & Europe Edition January 2016 Volume 7 - Number 01 www.hello-philippines.com

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THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas These are just a couple of the
(BSP) is asking consumers to be practices employed by fraudsters as
vigilant against counterfeit money observed by the BSP in recent months.
this holiday season.
Genuine banknotes with fake
In an advisory, the central bank security thread automatically lose
said fraudsters are now extracting their value and are considered fake as
the windowed security thread well, the BSP said.
(WST) from genuine banknotes and
transferring it onto counterfeit money, “In view of this, the public is advised
particularly the P500 and P1,000 bills. to be extra vigilant to the new trick /
The WST is vertical broken band that modus operandi of counterfeiters,” it
appear like thick silver stitches on added.
banknotes.
The BSP advised consumers
“This is done by pasting the who may come across this type of
extracted genuine WST on counterfeit counterfeit banknote to surrender it
P500 and P1,000 banknotes,” the before the Currency Issue and Integrity
central bank said. Office at the Cash Department of the
central bank along East Avenue in
The missing security thread on Diliman, Quezon City.
genuine bills is then simulated by
using a ballpen filled with semi- Consumers may also surrender the
gloss ink. Another trick fraudsters is counterfeit banknotes to the nearest
covering the space with commercially BSP branch or regional office. n Jon Viktor
available glossy or metallic paper.
Cabuenas / VS, GMA News / Published / December 25, 2015

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