Aussie restaurant owner’s warning after fake $50 and $100 notes fooled his employees

A restaurant owner has warned Aussies to be on the lookout for counterfeit money that’s circulating around the country after his unsuspecting employees fell for a fake $50 and $100 notes. Omar El Deek, co-owner of popular Italian restaurant and bar, Cosi, located in Melbourne’s South Yarra, was shocked after his wife discovered fake bank notes in the registers after they were used to pay for meals on two separate occasions in just a fortnight.

The major difference is that the fake $50 note doesn’t include the Australian Coat of Arms. Omar decided to take the counterfeit money to the police station to report the incident. “The police officer said that while there had been some counterfeit notes floating around, these were the realest-looking ones he had seen,” Omar explains. Since the incident, the owner says they have purchased and installed counterfeit detector machines, costing them $350, in an effort to crackdown on fake notes.

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