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Woman Jailed After Trading Swedish Monopoly Money For Hard Cash

by Jon Azpiri | January 27, 2009 at 02:15 pm

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A woman in Denmark was arrested for exchanging Swedish Monopoly money for real Danish currency.

The 61-year-old woman made the exchange at a Nordea bank branch in Svendborg. She successfully swapped two 2,000 kroner notes from the Swedish version of Monopoly for 1,400 Danish kroner, which is worth about US $240.

Emboldened by her success, the woman returned to the same bank the next day and tried to exchange an additional 8,000 kroners worth of Monopoly money. This time bank staff caught on to her and the woman was arrested by authorities. The woman claims that she was forced by an unnamed third party to commit the fraud.

No word yet as to whether the woman has tried to post bail using a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

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BlueClearSky1587

at 15:02 on January 27th, 2009

It seems as if the person working at the Danish bank should have known better than to accept Swedish Monopoly money. Even if the Monopoly money looked like real Kronor, there are security measures embedded within the money to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

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at 20:37 on January 27th, 2009

Inventive to say the least.

nickleus

at 01:21 on January 28th, 2009

and the source is? this sounds a little unbelievable. i've played monopoly in norway and the money is the exact same as in the states. i'm thinking somebody made this up.