MOVIE MONEY SPENT IN TENNESSEE

Police are investigating fake bills intended only for movie production that have found their way from Hollywood to Tennessee.

"Movie Money" is cash used by A-list actors in major motion pictures, that looks so real that it has been used as counterfeit money. Several merchants have accepted the fake $100 bills.

"It kind of caught me off-guard. They look so real if you don't read them it's easy to get taken," said Woodbury Police Chief Lowell Womak.

He said this was not a typical counterfeit case, with illegal bogus bills. They're actual movie props used in

"It says 'For Motion Picture Use Only' just across the top and on the back for 'Motion Picture Use Only,'" said Womak.

Ironically enough, the police station in Woodbury sits right next to the Moonlite Drive-In, and the evidence in the case was straight out of Hollywood.

"For $25.99 you can get $10,000," said Womak.

It's a deal like that that could only happen in a Hollywood script.

More thieves have started using the bills for counterfeit operations.

"They see this online and think let me order some of that; then they get it and it's real let me see if I can pass that," said Womack.

The money can seem so accurate that it has even fooled police. During production on one recent Hollywood movie, the fake money was so accurate police actually raided the set because some extras took the bills and spent them.

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