No, This Video of US Dollars Being Found in Mud Is Not Related to Punjab Floods

The video predates the recent and ongoing floods in Punjab.

A video showing a hand uncovering bundles of US dollars from a muddy ground is being widely shared on social media shortly afters heavy rains inundated all 23 districts in Punjab.

The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows visuals from Punjab, where a family "kept large amount of US dollars buried in their land, after the floods, all these US dollars got spoiled."

This post by X user '@RealBababanaras', who has been called out for sharing misinformation in the past, received over 11,000 views at the time of writing this report.

(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: No, this video predates the ongoing floods in Punjab, which makes the claim false.

How do we know?: We carried out a simple reverse image search on the video using Google Lens, which led us to an Instagram post which shared the same video.

• It was posted on 11 August, which means that it predates the floods in Punjab.

• Additionally, it carried a watermark of a TikTok username '@ifound504'.

• Using a VPN connection , we looked for this account on TikTok, and found that it had shared this video on 29 July 2025.

• It also had a voiceover of a person exclaiming "Oh my God" and making distressed noises, indicating that the video in the viral claim had been altered.

• We saw that the account regularly shared videos of a person 'finding' cash and smartphones.

• It's bio mentioned a YouTube channel named 'Galaxy Restore'.

• When we took a look at the channel, we saw that it exclusively shared videos of finding smartphones.

• A further look at its information showed that the channel was based in Singapore.

Conclusion: A video shared a by a Singapore-based content creator is being shared to falsely claim that it shows US dollars uncovered during floods in Punjab.

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