You can easily check whether the 500 rupee note in your pocket is real or fake
- bySudha Saxena
- 23 Apr, 2025

Fake Currency Note Identification: Fake currency notes have come into the market. The note in your pocket is real or fake. You can check it very easily. Let us tell you what to do for this.
Fake Currency Note Identification: Often when you go to a shop to buy something and hand over a 500 or 2000 rupee note to a shopkeeper, the shopkeeper first checks your note to see if it is fake or not and then gives you the goods. Let us tell you that if you do not pay attention.
So when will you get a fake note? It can be very difficult for you to find out. That is why it is important that you know whether the note in your pocket is real or fake. You can check it very easily. Whether the note is real or fake. Let us tell you what to do for this.
Fake 500 rupees came in the market
A warning has been issued by the Home Ministry. It has been told that fake notes of Rs 500 have arrived in the market. This fake note looks exactly like a real note. If you see it for the first time, it will be very difficult for you to differentiate. On Monday, i.e. 21 April, a high alert has also been issued by the Home Ministry in this regard. Along with that, the Home Ministry has also told how you can differentiate between fake and real notes.
This is how you can know whether the note is real or fake
There is a big mistake in the fake notes that have come in the market. But you will be able to detect this mistake only when you look at the note carefully. Actually, according to the information released by the Home Ministry, the name of RBI is written as "RESERVE BANK OF INDIA" on real notes. But the fake notes that have come in the market right now have A written instead of E. And with this, you can identify the real and fake notes.
Keep this in mind too
Let us tell you that it is not necessary that the fake notes that have come in the market only have the name of RESERVE BANK OF INDIA written incorrectly on them. Only then will you be able to identify them. Let us tell you that there are many fake notes in which the name of Reserve Bank of India is written correctly. So when you take a 500 or 2000 note and see the amount written on it i.e. 500 in 500 and 2000 in 2000, tilt it and see. If it is real, its color will change from green to blue. But this does not happen. So understand that the note is fake. This is a very easy and effective way to identify real and fake notes.
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