Many lottery ticket hawkers in Dong Nai Province have fallen victim to swindlers who change lottery tickets to turn them into winning tickets and submitted them to ticket traders for money.
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| This lottery ticket has been altered by swindlers in Dong Nai Province |
Many lottery ticket hawkers in Dong Nai Province have fallen victim to swindlers who change lottery tickets to turn them into winning tickets and submitted them to ticket traders for money.
One of the victims was Nguyen Thi Xinh, who peddles lottery tickets along streets in Bien Hoa City and has lost VND1 million (US$48) to a man who swindled her by replacing the numbers on ten lottery tickets with the winning number by gluing figures on the tickets.
When receiving the modified tickets from the man, Xinh could not tell they were fake, so she gave him the winning money and then submitted the “wining “ tickets to the lottery agent, who discovered the swindle.
Another victim was 14-year-old Dinh Ba Nam of the city's Tan Phong Ward, who was deprived of 100 lottery tickets by a man who showed Nam 10 “wining” tickets, and asked him to pay him VND1 million as the total winning amount (VND100,000 per a winning tickets of the 8th prize).
Nam told the man he did not have the money on him, so the man said he would take 100 tickets as an exchange for the money. Nam agreed but later found that the ten tickets were forged by correcting or gluing numbers on them.
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| Hai Minh (L), a hawker of lottery tickets in Hiep Hoa Commune, Bien Hoa City, who has fallen victim to swindlers |
Similar tricks have duped many other victims, including Hai Minh, also in Bien Hoa City, who lost VND200,000 and tickets worth the same amount when he received two ‘winning” tickets worth VND400,000 from a man.
Nguyen Van Mong, head of the police of Trang Dai Ward, told Tuoi Tre that he has received many reports from peddlers of lottery tickets about being cheated by swindlers.
Since the victims had been cheated in other wards, Mong instructed them to report their cases to police in places where the scams occurred.
Mong also said he would warn the public in general and peddlers of lottery tickets in particular about such tricks.
(Source:TTNews)
