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Holders should not pay for fake money

There have been other such cases across the country but in all of them the customers have borne the losses.

Rural migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to the fake money tragedy. On December 23 last year, Sun Yun and Wu Li, a couple from Zhongxian, Chongqing, received 2,400 yuan ($353) from their boss as part of their yearly salary. When they began to spend the money, they found that 19 of the 24 100-yuan bills were fake. The boss said the money was withdrawn from a local bank.

The couple were honest country folks. They said they would not spend the fake money because it is illegal; but they could not bear the pain of handing over the money to the bank. "We earned it at the cost of our blood and sweat," they said tearfully, according to media reports.

State regulation rules that fake money, when found, should be confiscated. In other words, the loss is borne by whoever holds it. The regulation is based on the theory that the act of keeping a counterfeit bank note is illegal. In reality, however, most holders of fake money obtain it without knowing it. The fact leaves the regulation questionable.

Although a person who accidentally receives a fake note is blamed for not being careful enough to detect it, he/she should not be held 100 percent responsible for the mistake. Besides the recognition of the phony notes, the problem also involves their making and trafficking, and they have become more and more difficult to detect thanks to the advancing of the techniques of forging them. These faults should not be blamed on common people who involuntarily become holders of fake money. Instead, it is the State's responsibility to stop, and crack down on the making and trafficking of fake money.