Beware of keeping a fake coin in your pocket

FAKE MONEY. Fake P10 coins are circulating nationwide. The Central Bank authorities are advising those who happen to receive these fake coins to turn them over to the authorities. But a mediamen said if he happened to have a fake coin he’d throw it away instead of bringing it to the Central Bank. “Di ba illegal ang magkupot og fake money?” he said. “Suppose I am caught having the fake coins on my way to the Central Bank to turn over the said coins, what guarantee do I have that I wouldn’t be arrested by some tarantado in uniform?”

IT HAS HAPPENED. The said mediaman said it happened before. A Fil-Chinese trader was on his way to the Central Bank to turn over a P500 bill when a man posing as a cop, who had seen him possessing the bogus banknote, nabbed him and accused him of being a passer of fake money. The trader got off the hook with the help of his lawyer son-in-law.