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need help laundering money

autumn1971 said:
My bank takes rolled change from me, but it could be because they know who I am. I work behind a counter, and I take rolled change from people. It turns out that, for every roll that's a few coins short, there's one that's a lot of coins to the good. I think that a lot of folks just try to stuff as many coins as possible into the roll. I even had one "clever" fellow try to scam me by substituting out twenty pennies in the middle of a roll. The substitutes were dimes!
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I work behind a counter, too, and it's completely verboten at my store to accept rolls of coins without opening and counting them, no matter how long it takes, no matter how fervently the customer insist, "It's all there!"
 
You have had this problem for three days. There have been several ideas put forward. I wonder why you have not tried any. Some of them are cheap and easy.
 
rjh01 said:
You have had this problem for three days. There have been several ideas put forward. I wonder why you have not tried any. Some of them are cheap and easy.
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The advice has been swell, and I'm carefully considering my best options.
I'm not anxious to make another chemistry blunder, nor am I ready to do individual coin scrubbing. Taking a 10% loss is also unsavory.

If its ok, I'd like to hold onto my righteous indignation for a day or two.

Its an outrage, I tell you!
 
quarky said:
The advice has been swell, and I'm carefully considering my best options.
I'm not anxious to make another chemistry blunder, nor am I ready to do individual coin scrubbing. Taking a 10% loss is also unsavory.
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The last time I used CoinStar I was able to turn it 100% into credit at Amazon, which is same as cash money to me.

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Goshawk said:
Bank tellers are not allowed to accept rolls of coins without unwrapping them and counting them. This is because there's an ancient scam that consists of putting a genuine coin at each end of the roll, with slugs or things like Chuck E. Cheese tokens in the middle as filler.
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My bank only takes rolled coins. They write your name and driver's license number on the wrapper. If everything isn't kosher with the coins you get a call.

Steve S
 
Goshawk said:
You have an account with them? And they know you? And you show up, "on a regular basis", to turn in coins. Well, there ya go--they know you.
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My very first transaction with the local branch of my bank when I moved to where I live now was to cash in $200 in coins. They'd never seen me before. I'm not sure I even told them I had an account with them.

It is a pretty small bank though, known for its customer service.
 
quarky said:
The advice has been swell, and I'm carefully considering my best options.
I'm not anxious to make another chemistry blunder, nor am I ready to do individual coin scrubbing. Taking a 10% loss is also unsavory.

If its ok, I'd like to hold onto my righteous indignation for a day or two.

Its an outrage, I tell you!
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Thanks. At least you started a good thread.
 
If the coins will still operate a slot machine then you don't need to clean them. Just go to a self service checkout and pay for your weekly shopping by putting the coins in the slot. (If you only have copper coins left then your problem is much simpler).
 
Need help laundering money?

Try sports betting.

Oh that was not the topic...
 
I once took a few hundred dollars in rolled change to a bank and they took it no questions asked. I didn't even have an account there.
 
quarky said:
I've considered 'smuggling' the tainted coinage back into the economy; a little bit here; a little bit there.

But wouldn't that be a lot like passing the problem on to someone else?
I need to come through this with my faux moral indignation intact.
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It seems to be something of a sport these days. I continually find myself with strange overseas coins that are approximately the same as the local currency.
 
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