Money lost in purse trade
( 2003-08-14 10:23) (China Daily)
A woman lost 700 yuan (US$85) on Monday when she traded her own bag for a
bulging wallet dropped on the ground, which appeared to be packed with money,
reports Beijing Evening New.
The victim was filling in a remittance form at the Xiluoyuan Post Office when
she noticed a wallet fall out of a man's pocket .
Before she could say anything, another man beside her quickly snatched it up
and talked to her in a low voice about sharing the money in the seemingly full
wallet.
The woman agreed and gave him the more than 700 yuan she had on hand to
secure her share of the money in the wallet. But when she opened the wallet
after the suspect left, the "money" inside was only ghost money, usually burned
as an offering to the dead.
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