In March 2004, Alice Regina Pike of Porterdale, Georgia walked into a Walmart in Covington with $1,671.55 worth of merchandise and a plan.
Step one: pay with two Walmart gift cards. Problem — one had 50 cents left on it, the other had $1.82. Total: $2.32.
Step two: pull out a $1,000,000 bill.

The cashier immediately recognized it as fake — it was a novelty souvenir item featuring the Statue of Liberty, the kind sold at gag shops. The United States Treasury has never issued a million dollar bill. The largest bill ever in general circulation was $100. The cashier called her manager. The manager called the police.
Pike reportedly just waited calmly until officers arrived.
When police searched her purse, they found two more million dollar bills.

Her explanation? Her husband had given her the bills and she genuinely believed they were real. “You can’t keep up with the U.S. Treasury,” she told reporters from jail.
Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton summed it up: “It looks real, but of course there’s nothing real about this. People do crazy things all the time.”
Pike was charged with forgery while prosecutors reviewed the case. She went down in history as the woman who expected a Walmart cashier to hand over $998,328.45 in change.