Five ways to spot if your banknote is fake

The switch from cotton-paper to polymer notes made it harder to counterfeit cash in the UK (Picture: George Clerk/Getty Images/iStockphoto)How easy to do you think it is to tell fake banknotes from the real ones?Counterfeit money accounted for 0.0025% of the 4.6 billion banknotes circulating in 2023, according to the Bank of England.That means £2.5 million worth of fake money was hiding among the £82billion of real ones doing the rounds.But fraudsters are touting their wares on socia