Six arrested for allegedly forging lottery tickets

[webfact]

Six arrested for allegedly forging lottery tickets

By The Nation

 

 

Five men and a woman have been arrested for allegedly forging winning lottery tickets used to deceive lottery vendors in Kanchanaburi out of more than Bt500,000.

 

The six suspects were identified as Nongyao Jongjitklang, 50, Adulwit Thiamkhunthod, 24, Wat (not real name), 18, Surachai Naeprakhone, 21, Ladklao Muntham, 38 and Jenphop Pimpikhor, 21.

 

 

CSD commander Pol Maj Gen Jirapop Phuridej said Nongyao allegedly forged the tickets by cutting and pasting figures form other tickets and printing a QR code and pasting it onto the forged tickets.

 

Jirapop said Nongyao was arrested at her house in Samut Prakan where police found and seized several items used in the forgery.

 

The Government Lottery Office invented the QR code system to prevent con artist from cutting and pasting numbers to forge winning tickets. But the gang has beat the system by successfully printing a fake QR code to paste on the forged tickets.

 

Jirapop said the forged tickets were very subtle and each ticket took about two hours to be forged.

 

The five men used two fake second prize tickets and four fake fourth prize tickets to sell to lottery vendors in Kanchanaburi and earned some Bt560,000.

Some lottery vendors also bought winning tickets for a 3 per cent discount.

 

The CSD chief said information from the gang members led to the arrest of Nongyao on Wednesday.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30370271

 

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[bluesofa]

55 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Government Lottery Office invented the QR code system to prevent con artist from cutting and pasting numbers to forge winning tickets. But the gang has beat the system by successfully printing a fake QR code to paste on the forged tickets.

<start sarcasm mode>

I see the Lottery Office is on top of the system by using a QR code to prevent this happening.

<end sarcasm mode>

 

[steven100]

hmmm .... oh well  !   good job they did catch them eventually.

[Justgrazing]

Badly dressed boy on the left or what .. Can't imagine LFC & sponsor's would be too flattered either about their name spread across the front of a fakeing faker .. 

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Badly dressed boy on the left or what .. Can't imagine LFC & sponsor's would be too flattered either about their name spread across the front of a fakeing faker .. 

Sounds more like a sexual offence.

Or was he a dodgy fakhir? (It does come from the Arabic 'faqir' - a poor man. Quite apt.)

[edwinchester]

"Jirapop said the forged tickets were very subtle and each ticket took about two hours to be forged."

 

2 hours work for something they'd sell to the vendor for a maximum of 80 bht?

[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Sounds more like a sexual offence.

Or was he a dodgy fakhir? (It does come from the Arabic 'faqir' - a poor man. Quite apt.)

Word has it some bird's are fakers as well .. but I've never come across any .. 

[Mukdahanman]

Not condoning it, but can’t help admiring their enterprise