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Selling bogus winning Mark Six lottery tickets has become the latest street scam in Hong Kong, police have said.
The warning  came as officers said  the total number of street scams reported in the first 10 months of the year was 50 -  the same as  for the period last year.
Most of the cases involved tried-and-tested tricks, but police discovered a new trend this year of selling the forged winning tickets. 
The trick involves swindlers -  middle-aged women - asking people to collect Mark Six prize money on their behalf, claiming they cannot do so themselves because they are not Hong Kong residents.  
The victims are asked to pay between HK$2,000 and HK$50,000  as a deposit for the forged winning tickets, money which is to be held until they return with the non-existent prize money, which the women promise to share  with their victims. 
Kowloon West Regional Crime Prevention Officer Sandra Chui Yui-luen said so far no one had been arrested in connection with the scam. 'It is a bit difficult to obtain information, as many victims are elderly and cannot remember well what the swindlers look like,' she said.
She said to convince their victims the tickets they offer are real, the perpetrators mark down the winning Mark Six numbers and buy genuine tickets from Jockey Club branches with these numbers  for the next draw. Then they alter the date  on the  tickets to produce bogus winning tickets for the second prize of the previous round.
'Their altering technique is quite good. You might think it is a real one at first glance,' Chui said.
The cases were discovered and reported by staff at the Jockey Club.  
Police handled eight such cases between July and November. Six men and two women, aged between 50 and 82, fell victim to the scam, involving a total sum of HK$182,700.
'We hope nobody will be deceived anymore,' Chui said.




Warning of Mark Six scam