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Re: Suspicious notes and users

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Montgomery Burns wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2026 1:23 pm If the postal code used adds up, then it could indeed be a misspell (auto-correct?).
It does not add up, though. I have browsed all the town names within the postal code area, and none seems remotely similar to Google.
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OK, I'm not surprised - I was giving it every ounce of goodwill I could come up with. :lol:
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https://it.eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=259109207
This is a very nice hit, but there are some coincidences that make me think...

I'm sure I spent the banknote in Italy, and it's strange that 10 years later it's being found again in Greece.
The user who found it got another hit this morning, another hit yesterday, a hit three days ago... 8 hits this year! In Greece!
This is against the odds, it is notoriously very difficult to get hits in Greece.
And almost all hits with more than 3000 days...
And in the last 10 years he's only had active hits...
His hit-ratio is very low (1:140) for a nation like Greece.
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No evidence that he's a faker, but plenty of clues that make him look suspicious.

The user I'm talking about is e-collector (https://it.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?user=158517)
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Testing the machine ?
Once, it's OK.
Twice, it starts to be suspicious.
Please keep an eye on these two users.
Yannis Passerel : https://fr.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?user=225449
and CamPhThao : https://fr.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?user=249575 (26 notes, two hits) .
here are the two hits they share : https://fr.eurobilltracker.com/profile/ ... ser=249575
Si tu veux voler avec les aigles, éloigne-toi des paons. (proverbe d'origine inconnue)
千里之行 始于足下, proverbe chinois
اتَّكَلْنا منه على خُصٍّ الاتحاد قوة, proverbe arabe
ספר המעשיות: כולל אגדות וסיפורים מתוך קובץ כ"י ישן, proverbe sanskrit
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Re: Suspicious notes and users

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giulcenc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 9:55 pm

No evidence that he's a faker, but plenty of clues that make him look suspicious.

The user I'm talking about is e-collector (https://it.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?user=158517)
He's a note collector not a faker. Though I think the trading part should be in the comments section and the hit is not interesting. There are multiple users here with exotic (unmoderated) hits where it becomes clear those hits originate from trading notes.
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