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A Norman man was out hundreds of dollars after a Craigslist deal went wrong.Ryan Self met a man in a Walgreens parking lot at NW W. 122nd Street and May Avenue to sell his PlayStation 4. When he went to deposit the cash a few days later, a teller at his bank raised the alarm.“You never expect fake money.” Self said. “I’m putting $300 in my bank account. And, you know, I get up there and she’s like ‘It’s fake.’”Self said he was devastated. He’s a working college student, and having surgery soon. The financial hit was hard to swallow.“I felt anger that I’ve never felt before, you know. And when I get mad I actually cry sometimes and so I actually cried for a minute,” he said. "(I was) sick to my stomach. I wanted to throw up right there. (I was) just real nauseous, you know, and I couldn’t believe it.”Self's sharing his story and urging people to look out for camouflaged cash so they don’t get ripped off too.“This is not normal and I don’t want it to happen to anybody else because, you know, it’s the worst feeling in the world,” Self said.The best way to test cash and make sure it’s real is by getting a counterfeit detector pen. The pen makes a mark on money, and if the mark turns golden, the money is real. If the mark turns black, the money might be fake. A UV light can also shine on the money to test if it is real. The pens sell for around $12 at Office Depot.The case will be turned over to the Secret Service.