Two men accused of using counterfeit cash in an Internet scheme to dupe a couple out of a videogame system used "movie propmoney" that police believe may have come from a rap video production in Cleveland.

"We have been told that while the music video was being filmed, they were throwing (the fake money) out to the extras," said Lt. Roger Crihfield of the Canton Police Department's detective bureau. "Somehow it made its way here."

Store clerks can easily tell the difference, he said. The "bills" are slick, magazine-like paper that, while they appear real, include the words "For Motion Picture Use Only" on the front at the right top and, on the back, at the top-center where the words "The United States of America" are printed. Above the 100 on the bottom left are also the words: "This note is not legal. It is to be used for motion pictures." And on the back, where a genuine $100 says, "In God we trust," the fake one says, "in him we trust."

The fake money has been showing up in the Canton area at local businesses where "customers" purchase a small item with what appears to be a large-denomination bill. "They buy a small item or two in hopes of getting the rest back in change and genuine currency," Crihfield said.

Nothing about the money two men showed a couple selling a videogame system was real.

The 25-year-old woman and 24-year-old man, who both live on Roe Court SE, met with a couple of young men on May 2 after the men responded to the couple's ad on LetGo, a social media app.

Crihfield said the two men showed the couple four $50 bills and two $100s, all movie prop money.

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