- A man bought a drink from an 11-year-old’s lemonade stand with a counterfeit $100 and asked for exact change.
- Jeremy used his own pocket money to give the man loose change, but was only able to produce $85.
- His family set up a GoFundMe raising more than $9,000 to recover the lost money.
An 11-year-old boy in Everett, Washington, was scammed by a man who bought a drink from the boy’s lemonade stand with a counterfeit $100 bill.
Jeremy, 11, was spending his pocket money setting up a lemonade stand to earn extra cash over the summer when a man approached the boy with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to a Facebook post from Everett Police.
According to the Facebook postthe man bought a drink from Jeremey with the counterfeit bill, but asked for exact change, to which Jeremy could only give the $85 of his own pocket money as change.
Jeremy discovered the $100 bill was counterfeit when he tried to purchase something at a local gas station, according to Everett Police.
Amy Steenfott, whose family is neighbors of Jeremey and his family, launched a fundraiser Friday to help the 11-year-old rebuild his lemonade stand.
Jeremy’s GoFundMe has raised more than $9,000 at the time of writing and exceeded its original goal of $250.
“He’s a hard-working kid between his lemonade stand, which is so much more than just lemonade (if you ever feel like cotton candy, you know who to see), mowing the neighbors’ yards and shoveling snow in the winter,” posted Steenfott on GoFundMe. “He dreams of owning his own vending machine business in the future.”