Could you spot a fake 10,000 yen note?
Netizens have been amazed and amused at the story of two men who tried to buy things with a fake “million yen note” that looks very similar to a 10,000 yen note [approx. $98].
Although the pair succeeded in buying a banana and two canned drinks from an elderly shopkeeper for the princely sum of 350 yen [approx. $3.43] before escaping with the change, things took a turn for the worse when they tried the same trick on a drug dealer…
From Yomiuri Shimbun:
Drug Dealer Catches Out Criminals Buying Things With Fake “1,000,000 Yen Note”
On June 4, the Nishinari division of Osaka Police arrested temporary worker Iwata Masahiro (22), of Nishinari Ward, Osaka, (also accused of violating the Stimulants Control Law) and Yamada Takashi (28), of Suminoe Ward, Osaka, on suspicion of fraud, and announced that the case had been referred to prosecutors. The two are accused of purchasing goods with a play-money “1,000,000 yen note” that looked like a 10,000 yen note, and for fraudulently taking both the goods and the change for those goods.
According to police, on June 12 at around 7:50pm, Iwata and Yamada are accused of having handed over a fake 10,000 yen note to a male shopkeeper (86) in a Nishinari Ward store, and fraudulently taking a banana and two canned drinks, as well as 9,650 yen in change. The “1,000,000 yen note” the men used is sold as a sticker, and therefore it has “Example Bank Note 1,000,000 yen” written on it. After Iwata left the store, he attempted to buy amphetamines with another “1,000,000 yen note”, but he was caught out by the drug dealer and beaten up, and so is said to have escaped into a nearby fire station.
Comments from Twitter:
山崎孝浩:
So stupid it’s not even funny (._.)
Yuta Tanaka:
I had to read this three times before I got it. What chaos.
鞍掛りく＠３日目東Q55a:
Used it on a drug dealer, got punched, escaped to a fire station? www Lame www so lame www
7001@2日目西れ－17b:
Hang on a second. Because they succeeded in “buying things with a fake ‘million yen note’ that looked like a 10,000 yen note”, they tried to buy amphetamines with a “million yen note”, but they got caught out by the dealer? HUH? www
オオヤ@●|￣|＿:
Is this a comedy sketch or something?
コタ マルタ:
Buy amphetamines with fake 10,000 yen note → get caught out by dealer → get scared and leg it to fire station → grass up the fact that they got beaten up to firemen → pair get arrested.
This is a pretty funny incident.
たけし:
High quality.
ジェット☆ダイスケ:
Yup, Osaka got class. At this level, these guys are gonna change jobs to comedians or some other entertainment job, so you can really tell that no one is gonna be able to follow this act.
カギ:
I really thought this was a horrible incident where they had deceived an elderly man and taken his money, but then LMAO at what happened after that.
ここる⭐︎叶えみんなの夢:
Are these guys from the world of comedy manga?
あとむ:
Sketch? (・ω・)
キタクニンゲン（あわ）:
The destructive force of this news is cray
小鹿٩(●˙▿˙●)۶:
Drug dealer wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
善財 優也:
All you can do is laugh…
＊麻里モン:
Nah, I reckon if you’re fooled by this it’s kinda your fault too.
ものたぬ:
I burst out laughing at the point it said that they tried to buy amphetamines with the million yen note.
overleo:
Great story.
でれちょ:
Actually wanted to buy those stickers, but was a bit embarrassed because I’m an adult, so I never did. I think that the underneath was definitely blank, too…Guess there are both people who’ll try to fool people with these and people who are actually fooled by them.
