If I hadn't experienced and witnessed it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that there was such a method of stealing.
I don't remember the specific time, but the location is a bank in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. I was going to handle a fixed deposit business, because there was only one customer in front of me, so I stood near the window in advance and waited.
At the front window on my right-hand side, a middle-aged lady was withdrawing cash, and I saw that the staff at the counter had handed out six bundles of yuan (the kind of 100 sheets we usually saw totaling 10,000 yuan, tied tightly with paper strips).
At this time, two foreigners walked over, looked like a certain country in Southeast Asia, one tall and one short, walked directly to the public window, and asked the staff inside the window what to say (definitely not English). The staff inside the counter did not answer him.
At that time, the woman who withdrew the money was still going through the formalities and talking to the counter staff, but six bundles of yuan were placed on the counter on her left-hand side, which happened to be the side of the two foreigners.
A foreigner saw that no one answered him, so he picked up the lady's bundle of renminbi (six bundles of renminbi were placed in two layers), held it in his right hand, and flicked his fingers with his left hand like a playing card, and heard a rustling sound.
When the lady saw it, she immediately took it from the foreigner's hand, put it on the pile of six bundles of banknotes, and told the foreigner not to take it. Then continue to talk to the staff inside the counter yourself.
Then the foreigner picked up another bundle of bills, the same way. This time, the woman was annoyed, grabbed the banknote, and then called out to the security guard sitting at the door: You don't care, what is this person doing?
The security guard came over, and the short foreigner asked in stiff Mandarin: Let's change the foreign currency, can we change it here?
The security guard told him that he could not change here, and that he could change it by going to the bank across the road. The two foreigners said thank you and went out immediately.
After the foreigner left, the lady sat down and continued to talk to the staff inside the counter. After about two minutes, a middle-aged man came over and reminded the lady to go to the money counter to count the banknotes, and saw that the note of the bundle of money was not loose, and the lady was still a little hesitant, when the security guard came over and suggested that she go to the money counter provided in the lobby to count once.
One count, two bundles of banknotes were taken, one bundle was five less and one bundle was missing six.
The lady was so angry that she scolded the security guard on the spot, saying why he didn't stop the foreigner from passing. The security guard did not argue, but only advised her to call the police immediately.
After I finished my business, I left, and when I left, I saw the police coming.
This was the first time I had encountered such a situation, and since then, I was a little disbelieving whenever someone else counted the bills in my hand.