Woman exchanges Monopoly money for Danish currency

[Lenny]

Woman exchanges Monopoly money for Danish kroner



A woman in Denmark played a high stakes game last week when she successfully convinced a bank to exchange bills worth two thousand "kronor" in Swedish Monopoly money for a quantity of real Danish money.

But the 61-year-old may be left needing a "get out of jail" card after a second attempt to exchange the toy cash backfired.

The fraud attempt began on Thursday, when the woman entered a branch of the Nordea bank in Svendborg and handed over two fake bills. When the teller failed to spot that the Swedish bills were far from authentic, the woman walked away from the counter with a cool 1,400 Danish kroner ($240), local newspaper Fyns Amts Avis reports.

Branch manager Ulrik Feveile Nielsen told the newspaper that an "inexperienced staff member" had been manning the cash desk at the time. "As long as humans are involved, mistakes will happen," he said.

But rather than quitting while she was ahead, the woman had another roll of the dice and returned to the bank the following day with a further eight thousand "kronor" in Monopoly money. This time staff were wise to her ways and immediately reported the matter to the police.

When placed under arrest, the woman claimed that a third party had forced her into the fraudulent exchange attempts.

http://www.thelocal.se/17154/20090126/

[Beorn]

I used to be quite good at monopoly, and often dreamt of what it would be like to exchange the play money for the real thing.

Fair play to the woman in deceiving the bank. Silly billy for thinking she could deceive them twice. :no no

[Lars]

Hahahahaha. That's incredible. The teller must not have slept that night or she/he is beyond retarded...

[Treffie]

The way things are going, Monopoly money maybe worth more than our precious £`s!

[Lenny]

I bet the woman was taking advantage of some young foreigner bank clerk

Branch manager Ulrik Feveile Nielsen told the newspaper that an "inexperienced staff member" had been manning the cash desk at the time.

Perhaps this means "inexperienced in Europe / inexperienced with Scandinavian money"

[Psychonaut]

How can you NOT tell the difference?

[Jamt]

I know from about one hundred years ago, of an almost as simple and much more profitable con towards Den Danske Bank in Copenhagen. I won’t go into specific for my own good. Is there an English word for time limitation of accountability? Anyway, stuff like this happens more in Denmark because Danes are generally honest and good people, much more so compared to dirty Swedes.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I bet the woman was taking advantage of some young foreigner bank clerk

Perhaps this means "inexperienced in Europe / inexperienced with Scandinavian money"

Yeah, that was my thought as well, who else would not be familiar with the 'Monopoly' game? It might not be as popular over there, but surely people have heard of it.