Girl Scout Victims of Counterfeit Bills

by Max Shrem (Subscribe to Max Shrem's posts)
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 1:01PM
Filed under: Snacks, Newspapers, On the Blogs

According to a report just yesterday from MSNBC, Girl Scout troops selling their cookies in Washington state are the latest victims of fraud. They have lost $100 so far due to fake $20 bills. This comes at a particularly rough time for Girl Scout cookie sales.

According to The Consumerist, a troop leader states that sales are down by as much as half. As The Consumerist states, "Girl Scout Cookies are not recession-proof." Apparently, they are also not safe from the fraudsters that seem to be sweeping our country, like Bernard Madoff and Robert Allen Stanford. As a result, troop leaders are defending themselves with counterfeit detecting pens. This specific troop of Girl Scouts in Bremerton, WA plans to sell more cookies this weekend, but with a cautious eye and a defensive pen.

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3-03-2009 @ 4:29PM

Mike said...

It really says a lot about someone's character if they knowingly use counterfeit bills to pay for Girl Scout cookies. Could the person who used the bills done so without knowledge? This story makes me wonder how much money parents of scouts across the country are going to spend on the pens. $100 out of the total sales for that one troop is probably not worth the time it takes to order the markers online. I feel bad for the scouts for being out that money, but is teaching them to check every $20 bill their neighbors hand them a positive community building exercise?

3-03-2009 @ 6:12PM

bacalao said...

Im glad they got burnt serves em right for selling those little arterial death bombs full of fat and sugar!

3-12-2009 @ 7:16PM

Barack Obama said...

How ridiculous! Ripping off a bunch of little girls for cookies; that's how pathetic society has grown.

3-14-2009 @ 12:16PM

Mike Licht said...

THAT'S why there aren't enough Samoas this year.

Then again ... there are NEVER enough Samoas.

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/samoa-season-in-washington/

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