Worried that your late night World Cup matches are going to negatively affect your work punctuality? Chinese fraudsters are doing a roaring trade in fake sick notes designed to help football fans skip work during this month’s World Cup.
Most World Cup matches will take place in Brazil when it is past midnight in China, or in the early hours between 3 and 6 a.m.
Unwilling to miss the pre-dawn matches, football-mad Chinese are reportedly turned to an underground network of counterfeiters, splashing out up to $50 for doctor’s notes so they can watch world cup matches all night and sleep all day.
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