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Main » 2013 » Tháng 1 » 31 » Fake ornamental apricot trees threaten Tet customers
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12:31 PM Fake ornamental apricot trees threaten Tet customers | |
 Apricot flower traditionally signals the arrival of Tet, Vietnam’s Lunar New Year festival. However, this is also the time to see more scams related to ornamental apricots. Scammers understand the wish, and even the need, of every family to have at least one apricot tree for Tet, and they have used this demand to fuel their business. These cheaters can earns dozens of millions of dong by selling fake apricot trees that are actually worth less than a million through a complicated swindle. ‘Technology’ splices apricot with stump The ‘knowhow’ needed to create an aged ornamental apricot is generally based on ‘ingredients’ such as an apricot sapling, a stump or a wooden chunk, sawdust, glue, and pastel. A house owned by a man named Hung, located in alley 44 in Ward 14, Go Vap district, is an example of a location where fake apricot trees are ‘grafted’. Hung’s house is full of the material needed for his work, including apricot saplings with trunks smaller than a human finger. He is assisted by an ‘apricot artist’ named Minh. A Tuoi Tre journalist watched Minh turn a sapling into an aged ornamental bonsai. Minh picked up a wooden stick as big as a man’s wrist and sawed off a 20cm chunk. The piece of wood was then bound between two apricot sapling trees, and he put mud around the wood and the trees to make it look like a single stump. The ‘aged apricot trunk’ was then covered with a layer of sawdust and glue was poured over this layer. After all of this dried, Minh coated it with a layer of moss-colored paint. Through this simple process, two saplings became a bonsai apricot that looked like an aged miniature apricot tree that could be used for decoration. In just two hours, Minh can create two faux-aged apricot pots from five saplings. Minh used another trick to turn a dead apricot stump into a living item. He bought dead apricot stumps and sawed a line along the stump to put a living apricot sapling inside. With sawdust, mud and glue, the stump was ‘revived’ as a living bonsai apricot that appeared to be many years old. Minh even sprayed chemicals on an apricot trunk to create moss and make it look like an aged bonsai. "It takes time to put a sapling in a dead stump, so I only do it with big stumps that will be sold at high prices. During these days before Tet, I have to splice it to earn profit quickly,” Minh said. mai 2
A wooden chunk is 'pasted' into a living apricot tree with glue to make its stump bigger (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Buying waste and selling at high prices Every day, Minh and Hung drive around District 12, Go Vap, and Thu Duc to collect dead apricot saplings at low prices. The tricks described above are not only applied to apricots, but to many other types of ornamental bonsai trees as well. Normally, each sapling is bought for around VND100,000 ($5), but can be re-sold for VND600,000 to VND1 million. A customer told Tuoi Tre that last year he bought a big apricot bonsai for VND13 million ($625), but the plant gradually faded and died. When he took it apart, he discovered the trick. A Tuoi Tre investigation discovered that both Minh and Hung are from the northern province of Hai Duong and began working in this trade ten years ago. mai 3
A fake ornamental apricot tree is broken out to display that the inside part of the trunk is actually only mud (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Read more: http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/features/fake-ornamental-apricot-trees-threaten-tet-customers-1.97612#ixzz2JWoV13mG | |
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