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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS -- Police in Cottonwood Heights are looking for a man who's been passing around funny money.
Officer Beau Babka, with the Cottonwood Heights Police Department, says the same man passed a counterfeit $50 bill and a $100 bill at a local grocery store.
"We know that the $100 [bill] has been chemically treated," Babka said, "because it was a $5 bill, but they were unable to take the Abraham Lincoln watermark out of it."
Babka says the M.O. does not match that of a Salt Lake County man who was recently arrested in another counterfeiting case, but he says bills with the same serial numbers have shown up in Draper, West Valley and South Salt Lake.
Police say both bills give away clues that they're fake, but from a distance they look legitimate. Resident Agent in Charge of the Secret Service in Salt Lake Glen Passey says there are a lot of clues for people to tell the difference. He says the best way to determine a fake is to hold it up to a real bill. He says the real bills also tend to have a "three dimensional" look at feel.
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