Czech Girl Attempts to Exchange Million Dollar Bill

Officers in Uherské Hradiště were in for a bit of surprise in January when responding to a call at an exchange office.

There, they found a young girl who had attempted to exchange a high-value dollar bill and immediately raised suspicions. The bill’s amount: a cool $1,000,000.

Presumably, the CNB confirmed what everyone had expected: the bill was not the real deal.

Backstory: the young girl had offered to buy a video game for her friend, an 11-year-old boy. The boy had no cash on hand, so he searched his parents’ closet.

There, he found the US bill with a bunch of zeroes; neither child knew how much the currency was worth, but the girl decided to try her luck exchanging it. The bill was, in fact, a souvenir purchased by the boy’s father while in the states.

Had the young lady been successful in her endeavor, she would have walked away with just shy of 25 million crowns, minus exchange fees.