800,000 yuan of forged notes. (Photo/Anwang.cn)

Shao and Tang are both in their fifties and living in Ma'anshan, a city in southeast China's Anhui province. Early in April, they spent 200,000 yuan to buy 800,000 yuan of counterfeit money. After realizing that the forged notes could not be used, they decided to call the police. Now, Shao is obtaining a guarantor pending trial while Tang is on the run, and police are also looking for the man who sold them the counterfeit money. 

At the end of March, when Shao and Tang purchased counterfeit notes, they were guaranteed that the fake money would look so real that no one would notice. They then tried to spend a few fake bills, and their money was accepted. After that, the man selling the fake bills told Shao and Tang that they could exchange 120,000 yuan for 500,000 yuan of the forged money, or 200,000 yuan for 800,000 yuan of faked notes.

The two women decided to buy 800,000 yuan of counterfeit notes, which cost them almost all of their savings. But after the man took their money and left, they looked inside the suitcase he gave them and discovered that, with the exception of a few notes at the top of each stack, all the notes in the middle were obviously fake and impossible to be spent.

They called the police, at first telling a lie that 200,000 yuan had been stolen from them at a teahouse. Worried about going to jail, Tang ran away after Shao confessed the whole thing. Now police in Anhui are looking for both Tang and the man who sold the counterfeit money. 

The man who sells the counterfeit money caught in a video surveillance footage. (Photo/Anwang.cn)