▲ Feng, the owner of the fake lottery shop. Compared with the real lottery (right), the fake lottery sold by Feng is obviously different. Our reporter Gan Xiayi photo
"I may have bought a fake lottery ticket … …” Not long ago, Mr. Wu, who lives in Chen Jiaqiao, Shapingba, came to the police station to report that he had never won a lottery in a lottery shop, so he suspected that the lottery was fake.
Is Mr. Wu "unlucky" or did he really encounter a fake lottery ticket?
I bought lottery tickets for a month and didn’t win any small prizes.
Mr. Wu works in Chen Jiaqiao. When he has a rest, he likes to play an online instant lottery called "Shi Shi Cai" with his friends in the lottery shop. The time lottery belongs to Keno lottery, approved by the Ministry of Finance, and issued by China Welfare Lottery Issuance Management Center in the area under the jurisdiction of Chongqing, which belongs to the regular welfare lottery.
Mr. Wu said that he had played "Time Lottery" in other places before. Although he didn’t win the grand prize, he often won small prizes. However, he spent a month in this lottery shop in Chen Jiaqiao, invested thousands of dollars and didn’t win any prizes, which made him suspicious.
On the 16th of this month, Mr. Wu reported the case to the Chen Jiaqiao police station. When he took out the lottery tickets bought in this lottery shop from his bag, the police soon found that these lottery tickets were very different from the regular lottery tickets sold in the market: generally speaking, the regular lottery tickets were colored, with the logo and pattern of the China Welfare Lottery on them, and a line of anti-counterfeiting codes with two-dimensional code patterns. The lottery ticket that Mr. Wu took out is no different from the cashier’s receipt in the supermarket. There is neither a sign of China Welfare Lottery nor an anti-counterfeiting code.
Hearing this explanation from the police, Mr. Wu shouted that he was fooled. At that time, he only looked at the lottery results on the TV screen and didn’t notice the difference of lottery tickets at all.
The fake lottery shop has been in business for three months.
According to the police, according to national laws and regulations, issuing lottery tickets without permission has constituted the crime of illegal business operation. Chen Jiaqiao police station immediately investigated the shop where Mr. Wu bought lottery tickets, and found that in addition to this lottery shop, another lottery shop on the street also illegally sold lottery tickets.
On the afternoon of 16th, the police seized two shops that illegally sold fake lottery tickets, seized four computers, four televisions and two bill printers for illegally selling lottery tickets, and brought the owners Feng Mou, cashiers Liu Mou, Wan Mou and dozens of people who bought lottery tickets on the spot back to the police station for investigation.
After inquiry, Feng confessed the criminal fact that he had opened a fake "time color" in Chenjiaqiao Town since November 2016 without the approval of the state.
The police said that there were no signs hanging outside the two fake lottery shops. However, the setting in the store is almost exactly the same as that in a regular lottery shop, so the customers who come here are not aware of the abnormality.
Whoever the boss wants to win the prize will win.
Feng confessed that he had seen such a fake lottery shop in other places before, and thought it was quite profitable, so he bought the system developed by the other party and opened two stores in Chenjiaqiao Town after he came back. The interface of the lottery ticket is almost the same as that of the China Welfare Lottery, and the lottery ticket is awarded every 10 minutes, but there is no sign of the China Welfare Lottery, and the lottery ticket is also printed on ordinary cashier receipt paper. Despite this, many people didn’t notice these details and came to his shop to buy lottery tickets.
Feng said that the lottery system is controlled by himself. Whoever wants to win the prize can win the prize, and whoever doesn’t want to win the prize doesn’t have a penny. In just a few months, Feng illegally sold lottery tickets for more than 300,000 yuan and made a profit of nearly 100,000 yuan.
The two female cashiers confessed that they were hired by Feng. Although they knew that this was illegal, they were not very clear about the "mystery" because they had never bought a lottery ticket. They usually collected money according to the boss’s requirements. According to them, dozens of people come to the store to buy lottery tickets every day, all of whom are local residents or migrant workers.
The police investigating the case said that the amount of fake lottery tickets sold by Feng ranged from 5 yuan to 100 yuan. They have sold thousands of fake lottery tickets in the past three months. At present, the criminal suspect Feng was released on bail pending trial on suspicion of illegal business operation, and the case is still being further processed.
The police reminded that when buying lottery tickets, you must keep your eyes open, go to the regular sales point of China Welfare Lottery, and pay attention to whether the lottery tickets have the words and anti-counterfeiting codes of China Welfare Lottery, so as not to be deceived. If you find the sales point of fake lottery tickets, please call 110 in time, and the police will crack down on such illegal and criminal acts. Our reporter Tan Yao