(CRI 2008-07-10 17:58:39)--A man was arrested while trying to claim a 250,000 yuan bounty from the pools with a tampered ticket in southern China's Fuzhou city, local newspaper Fuzhou Evening News reported on Thursday.

The man, surnamed Yang, works in Quanzhou, a city 110 km away from the provincial capital Fuzhou.

On June 17, he bought 30 Olympic-themed instant lotteries at a price of 300 yuan. He discovered that he won a petty prize of 80 yuan with disappointment but was surprised to find that one of his tickets was only one numeral away from a 250,000 yuan prize, the top prize of the pool he was playing with.

With a carbon pen he bought from a nearby shop, he falsified the figure "03" into "08", which matched the winning numerals.

Yang returned to the lottery booth and showed up his "lucky ticket", the owner congratulated him without much serious verification and directed him to Fuzhou to claim his bounty. That night, Yang was on his way to Fuzhou on bus.

On June 18, Yang's trick was revealed at the provinciallottery center and he was arrested on charge of lottery fraud.

This is the largest lottery fraud in Fujian Province this year.
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