Man wanted after woman’s scratch-card misery

 

A NICOSIA woman was allegedly short-changed to the tune of £24,975 by a Larnaca scratch-card seller after she thought a £25,000 wining ticket was worth only £25.

The lottery-ticket seller failed to point out her error and rushed off after giving her just £25, Dora Hadjiefraim complained to police yesterday.

Police yesterday issued a description of a scratch-card seller they wanted to question over the alleged theft.

According to the complaint made to police, Hadjiefraim bought a £1 ‘Casino Super’ scratch-card while she was out eating at the ‘Koullis’ taverna in Larnaca on Wednesday night. Having scratched the card, she found three As on the left-hand panel of the card, winning the £25,000 jackpot. But, Hadjiefraim told police, she thought she had won just £25. She found the scratch-card seller and told him she had won £25. The seller took her winning ticket, gave her £25 and then left, police were told.

It was only later on Wednesday night, after Hadjiefraim had bought another ‘Casino Super’ scratch card, that she realised she had been cheated, she told police.

Police said they were looking for a scratch-card salesman aged between 25 and 30, about 1.75 to 1.80 metres tall, of average build and with short dark hair.

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