The on-going London Olympics gives rise to probably the largest scale of lottery scams on Sina Weibo. Numerous legitimately-sounding Weibo accounts started to spread prize-for-everyone lotteries betting on China Olympic team’s gold medal counts.
In Shijiazhuang, a city 200 miles South of Beijing and capital of Hebie province, Apple stores has been ordered to take iPads off shelves. At the same time, undisclosed amount of fines are on their way, too.
Does anyone care for a facetime call with their deceased friends? The Chinese would probably say yes should there be WiFi in the afterlife. iPhones and iPad 2 appeared on the list of sacrificial-offerings at this year’s Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Jie). Not grey market ones, but fake paper ones.