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Con artists use fake $100 to rip off Girl Scouts
Thieves get cookies, $93.50 in change; victimized troop gets $100 donated
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WESTMINSTER, Colo. - A pair of con artists ripped off a Girl Scout group when they exchanged a fake $100 bill for cookies, police said.
The unknown couple handed over the bill Friday night at a supermarket, telling the girls it had been washed when asked about why it looked so strange.
"It felt and looked wrong and it was a quarter of an inch shorter than a $1 bill," said Jil Hennessey-Seabolt, the cookie director for Junior Girl Scouts Troop 2121. Hennessey-Seabolt said the Girl Scouts gave the couple $93.50 in change after the purchase.
The exchange eradicated the Scouts' earnings that day. The money they raise in the sales goes to camping trips and to area charities.
"Something like this isn't fair when it happens to adults, but when it happens to kids who work so hard, it's so frustrating," Hennessey-Seabolt said.
The story does have a happy ending, though. A resident donated $100 to the Girl Scouts.
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