Man tries to pay for Walmart purchase with fake $1 million bill
submitted 148 days ago by HouTex in "Member's Lounge"
Hard to imagine that the 53-year-old North Carolina man really believed it was a legitimate $1 million bill, but that's what he told the cashier. Store personnel called police. A $1 million bill was never made, and all bills from $500 to $10,000 were discontinued in 1969.
Wikipedia collects these stories, some are pretty funny. Here is my favorite:
In March 2006, agents from ICE and the Secret Service seized 250 notes, each bearing a denomination of $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) from a West Hollywood apartment. The suspect had previously been arrested on federal charges for attempting to smuggle more than $37,000 in currency into the U.S. following a trip to Korea in 2002
Largest US bill ever issued was $100,000 denomination. They were issued in 1934 and were only used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks.
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Hard to imagine that the 53-year-old North Carolina man really believed it was a legitimate $1 million bill, but that's what he told the cashier. Store personnel called police. A $1 million bill was never made, and all bills from $500 to $10,000 were discontinued in 1969.
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