Kid Who Sold Lemonade Cheated By Man With Counterfeit $100 Bill

• A man bought a drink at an 11-year-old’s lemonade stand with a counterfeit $100 and demanded exact change.

• Jeremy used his own allowance to give the man change, but could only produce $85.
• His family set up a GoFundMe that raised more than $9,000 to help recover the money he lost.

An 11-year-old boy in Everett, Washington was conned by a man who bought a drink at the boy’s lemonade stand with a counterfeit $100 bill.

Jeremy, 11, was using the allowance money to set up a lemonade stand to earn extra money over the summer when a man approached the boy with a fake $100 bill, according to a Facebook post from the Everett Police Department.

According to Post on Facebookthe man bought a drink from Jeremy with the fake bill, but asked for exact change, to which Jeremy could only give $85 of his own allowance as change.

Jeremy discovered the $100 bill was counterfeit when he tried to make a purchase at a local gas station, according to the Everett Police Department.

Amy Steenfott, whose family neighbors Jeremey and his family, organized a fundraiser Friday to help the 11-year-old get his lemonade back.

Jeremy’s GoFundMe has raised more than $9,000 at the time of writing and surpassed the original goal of $250.

“He’s a hard working boy between his lemonade, which is so much more than just lemonade (if you’re craving cotton candy you know who to see), mowing yards with the neighbors and shoveling snow in the winter,” Steenfott posted on GoFundMe. “He dreams of owning his own vending machine business in the future.”