A duo from Mississippi who travelled to Pineville, North Carolina, to defraud a jewelry store has just been charged for buying luxury watches and jewelry using counterfeit US dollars.

Prosecutors say the men used sleight-of-hand to swap real cash with fake bills at a mall jewelry store in Pineville, NC.

Police noted that the fake money is nearly identical to real bills from a visual standpoint, with the texture and size being the same. The only visible difference is a change in wording on the bill.

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