Charity Finds Box of Fake Money in Its Basement

A Massachusetts nonprofit group found a cardboard box containing tens of thousands of dollars in the basement of a house it was renting—only to discover that the money was counterfeit, reports The Boston Globe.

Contractors renovating a house rented by Citizens for Adequate Housing found the box nailed under the stairs, and a worker brought it to Kim Brengle, the group’s development director. “He said: ‘Your money problems are solved. Look what I found,’” she tells the newspaper.

But the group’s excitement didn’t last long. “You couldn’t really mistake it for real money if you touched it or looked at it,” Ms. Brengle said. “There were duplicate serial numbers. It was a short-lived dream.”