Taxi drivers have also been targeted by the forgery fraudsters.
The Daily Echo has some tips for our friends in the UK
FORGED notes have been tendered across the region with a high number of reported incidents in Southampton city centre, Woolston, Hedge End and Botley.
Taxi drivers have also been targeted by the forgery fraudsters.
Retailers told the Echo that tricks used to pass off the worthless notes as genuine include ruffling up the paper to make it appear used and inserting fakes inside layers of genuine cash as they hand over money for goods.
