A man and a woman have been arrested after reports of counterfeit bank notes being used in the town.
Humberside Police say they made the arrests on Wednesday after officers received reports from local business owners of a male and female paying for items with counterfeit bank notes.
A man and women were arrested on suspicion of fraud and possession of counterfeit currency by officers from Bridlington Team 3 .
They have since been interviewed Bridlington CID and have been released on bail to allow enquiries to continue.
This marks the fourth arrest in the last two weeks for offences of this nature in the town with a further man and women being arrested for a similar offence last week.
Offences of this nature are commonly referred to as, 'ringing the changes' in which people buy low value items from businesses using counterfeit currency in order to receive a quantity of change in genuine currency in return.
Bridlington Police say:
"We are encouraging local businesses to be vigilant when taking cash and to check bank notes are genuine prior to accepting them.
Information on how to check bank notes is available from the Bank of England via the following link: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/counterfeit-banknotes/how-to-check-your-banknotes
For those criminals attending our area to commit this type of offence, the message is clear, we will pursue reports of this nature and continue to bring those impacting on local businesses to justice."


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