Forged Euro’s
Tentatively related to St Adalbert (German connection). I was working in Celle in Germany for a few days, visiting clients around 2010. This was my third or fourth visit and I was staying at the same hotel as I had stayed before – Ringhotel Celler Tor https://www.celler-tor.de, a really nice hotel with great food and pool/jacuzzi and sauna. I had landed at Hannover and taken a cab the 20 miles to the hotel. I paid the driver, checked in and went to my room. A few minutes later I had a call from reception asking me to come back down to them.The taxi driver was there, I assumed he wanted to give me a card and let me know he could drive me to my appointments, however, he did not. He had realised that the Euro’s I had given him were forged. He showed me how he knew, of course I had no idea not dealing with Euro’s often. Luckily, I had enough Euro’s to pay him still.
Apparently, in this situation the police are usually called but I must have looked shocked enough for the driver to realise it was a genuine mistake.
At the time I was living in a small town in Devon and was a regular at the Post Office, getting foreign currency. As soon as I was back in my room, I phoned the Post Office and explained what had happened. Fortunately, the lady who had served me the Euro’s a couple of days before remembered doing so and said they would sort it out when I got back, which they did.
It turns out that a couple of men were going into different post offices around Devon – and possibly elsewhere, with forged 20 Euro notes and exchanging them for pounds. I had to give a statement to the police although as I was only the receiver of the notes, I am not sure how helpful that would have been.
Anyway, that was a lesson learnt for both me and the post office who are now a lot more aware of forged notes.
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