GOING VIRAL on Thai social media is a warning by a woman to be careful when buying lottery tickets because she ended up with a fake one, TV Channel 7 said this evening (Dec. 3).
In her post the victim said: “Warning to brothers, sisters, mothers and everyone who likes buying government lottery tickets. Today I was hit. I was not fussy when I bought it because I do so very often. But later when I picked it up to check the number and spread it, it looked odd, the number looked like a photocopy and the flipside was faded.
“I was certain it was fake and when I used saliva to rub it – it turned really bad.
“The location is in front of 7-Eleven within Phrueksa 3 housing estate, before Lotus opposite Khrua Nua coffee shop. The man selling these tickets is tall and old, speaks politely and wears a hat.”
Reporters were able to reach the victim, Ms. Oranong (surname withheld), 26, who said she bought this ticket for 100 baht on the morning of Nov. 16, 2023 when a man approached her after she had dropped off her children at school and asked her to buy one.
She only realised she had bought a fake later in the day when checked the result because it looked strange, not like normal government lottery tickets.
She wet her fingers and rubbed the ticket and it started disintegrating.
She then posted her account of being scammed online with this leading to a Government Lottery Office official visiting her and after inspecting the ticket confirmed it was fake.
Oranong said she is going to report the vendor who sold this fake ticket to Bang Bua Thong police station because she does not want him to continue scamming other people.
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The fake lottery ticket Oranong bought. Photo: TV Channel 7
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