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Q: Scratch off lottery Chinese card

I recently found a ticket with a supposedly 280,000 RMB winning price. The card has two places to scratch off showing 4 little stars- (and meaning that if you get these four stars, you get the money shown there - which in this case are 28,000K You can get up to 5 stars.

 

Obviously everything written on the card it's in Chinese (hanzi). Everybody tells me that it's fake  when I tell them that I found 8 of them inside an enveloped with a receipt of 130K (fapiao), scratched off  8 of them  and just kept the one with the stars. All the Chinese that I have asked  don't even want to try calling the phone numbers printed on the card or anything... Like if it was the worse thing to do. Crazy huh?? Must be that Chinese people are very skeptical on matters of getting any price at all?

 

However, how can you really tell that IT IS FAKE without having to have assumptions from people? There are no webpages shown on the ticket-. I tried looking up online but no luck to really satisfy the willingness to just drop it and leave it on the trash...  I have another person calling the numbers and apparently it is an advertisement ticket...

-I asked: Advertising for what ...What for?

-He replied: I don't know... "as usual"..  

 

Then I asked myself? Who would print one's number in a card and just get people to call it? This is just weird. I know about scams that ask people to pay the "tax" in order to get the money..  - I have no idea why people fall into that- But anyway..  Can you really know that what seems to be fake, probably isn't? 

 

 What do you do?  :Innocent

 

Btw: These are the numbers printed on the card in case a Chinese speaking gal is reading my message and wants to help out solving this matter..

 

0591- 87921813

0591- 381 12708         87921875

 

Thanks!

10 years 20 weeks ago in  Money & Banking - China

 
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If they do not take it from you, so it really is a fake. otherwise, they will say same, its fake, but keep it for themself and loot the money Smile

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I am guessing the number you can call is going to be noticeable on your phone bill. This is how they make money on a scam like this. 

If it is not fake, then there must be some shop somewhere that sells these where you can go ask. I would also think that a scratch card lottery would have at minimum some presence on the interwebs, if you can find it there it might not be fake.

 

We recently won a BMW X3 in a China Post lottery. I called the bluff as the X3 first prize after an Audi A8. It just didn't make sense to have the less valuable of the two as first prize. This was in an actual letter, sent to us by post (just address, no names) Didn't bother calling.

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