Girl Scouts Get Scammed by Counterfeiter

[longnecker]

Girl Scout leader Dianna Mines got an unpleasant surprise when she tried to deposit the $258 her troop had collected selling cookies.
A TD Bank teller told her that $80 — four of the $20 bills deposited — were counterfeit, the Lowell Sun reported.
"I was shocked," said Mines, who heads Troop 60916 in Tyngsborough, Mass. "Girl Scouts is about trying to teach the girls how to be good members of the community. To be taken advantage of was just not right."
Mines and her 21-member troop had earned the cash selling cookies outside a Walmart in Hudson, N.H. March 4.
Mines said she has not filed a police report, but added that she probably should have and still might.
The troop was raising money for a hiking trip to Rowley in May and a Cape Cod meeting of troops from across Eastern Massachusetts in June to celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouts.
She said the staff at TD Bank were nice enough to buy a few boxes of cookies when they heard the news.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/G...142462335.html

[motherof3]

The really crappy thing is the troop is on the hook for the money owed to their council for those cookies too. People are such assholes to rip off little girls.

[M.Opaliski]

It's possible that whoever passed them off to the Troop wasn't aware that the Bills were counterfeit.

Of course I'm thinking, who goes to Wal Mart to spend $80 on Girl Scout Cookies outside the store? You almost have to assume that all four Bills came from one person, otherwise that's some poor luck, picking up $80 in bad Bills out of $258 taken in. That, or folks were getting the bad Bills inside Wal Mart.

Lot's of possibilities here, it's even possible that the Troop Leader stuffed them in there.

[RobForaker]

Girl Scout leader Dianna Mines may have switched the bills herself....

[motherof3]

Girl Scout leader Dianna Mines may have switched the bills herself....

Why would she do that when in all likelyhood it will be her or the other parents that have to replace the money? Once someone signs for those cookies from council that person (usually the leader or cookie mom) is responsible for repaying council for the cookies, no matter what happens.