Beware of fake tenners

The public should be on the lookout for take 10 Pounds notes, the police said yesterday.

 A ccording to a police announcement, counterfeit notes have already been spotted at shops, kiosks and banks.

 So far, most of the finds have been in the Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos area.

 The police announcement said the 31 of these notes had been found over the last months.

 The fake notes are no engraved, do not have a water-mark and spot an imitation security strip which, when held up to the light appears interrupted instead of continuous. The counterfeit notes also do not have a micrograph, or small writing, on them as the real notes do.

 The police also pointed out that notes confiscated so far had the following serial numbers: DC531879, DP857931, EP735918, PA813759, AK811546 and CP593781.

Citizens with information on the counterfeit notes or believing they may have one in their possession should contact the police immediately.