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.

An infographic put together by Guohead, a mobile advertising agency in China, gives an overview of app usage among Chinese smartphone users and their acceptance and preference of advertising in apps.

Every iPhone or Andriod app that Tencent has copied is put side by side in an infographic. The amazing thing is that Tencent’s copycats oftentimes rank higher than the original in app store.

Counterfeiting in China has apparently reached a new level. Chinese consumers, young in particular, start to buy fake “Sent from my iPhone” and “Sign in from my iPhone” signature lines – words showing up on social networks that make people believe you actually own a real iPhone.

Feburary 28, 12:58 pm, in Zhengzhou, a man who was tricked into buying a fake iPhone stabbed another knockoff mobile phone seller to death.

On February 23, 2012, local police in Wuhan seized a warehouse of gas stoves, branded as “iPhone” with Apple’s log on. The manufacturer, as shown on the certificate, is “Apple China Co. Ltd”.

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.