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By Hugh Johnson, The Gazette
Counterfeit $100 bills — often sold online as novelty items — were spent at several businesses in downtown Colorado Springs last week, police said.
The bills are stamped with several Chinese-language characters in hot pink and carry the serial number LB23104201U. The person who spent the bills didn’t know they were counterfeit, so no one was arrested, police said.
It was one of several incidents this year in which fake $100 bills bearing the same serial number and pink Chinese symbols were circulated, said detectives from the police financial crimes unit. Several U.S. Post Offices in town received similar fake $100 notes with the same pink symbols.
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