One of the greatest film noir classics in history, The Maltese Falcon (1941)Detective Sam Spade, played by Humphrey Bogart, searches for, finds, loses and finds again the Maltese Falcon, a small but priceless figure covered in jewels. has been passed down from generation to generation, and when it reaches San Francisco it will cause death, deceit, betrayal and all the elements that make up a great movie like this. At the end of the film (spoiler alert), it’s revealed that the statuette was actually a fake, that the real one never made it to America, and that there’s something worse than greed, and that’s greed that comes back empty-handed. When Spade handed the Maltese Falcon to the police, who asked him what the sculpture was made of, the wise man replied: “It’s the stuff dreams are made of.”
This line, later repeated and parodied ad nauseam, refers to all the fantasies the characters deposit within an illusory object throughout the film, which, like dreams, eventually fade away. Without so much violence and lies involved, Lottery players also pin their hopes on a piece of paper, hoping that with a little help from the goddess of wealth, they can be bathed in gold.. But if the Maltese Falcon has taught us anything, it’s that If we’re going to pour our financial desires into an object, we’d better make sure it’s real.
Buy directly from the institution
Every year, using the lottery, Many people try to cheat millions of buyers by selling them fake goods. Since many times these false tithes are difficult to identify, It’s best to limit yourself to buying Christmas lottery tickets at authorized authorities. And not those who sell them on the street, especially when these sellers claim to sell them in famous sales points such as Doña Manolita or La Bruixa d’Or. If we buy the tenth via the Internet, which is becoming more and more common, It’s a good idea to make sure the secure shopping code HTTPS:// appears in the navigation bar (URL). Finally, we should be suspicious whenever they want to charge us a different price than the established tenth of 20 euros.
Recognizable at a glance
If we have a tenth lottery ticket in our hand, there is also a way to tell if it is fake, because just like in the note printing press, the National Currency and Stamp Factory has an anti-fraud system, so the tithe is actually not Forged.. For example, the tenth is printed on OCR paper (could this be the material of dreams?), and the tenth itself has glowing fibers that are only visible under UV light. Additionally, each ticket comes with a barcode and number unique to that ticket. Finally, the security printing uses a combination of gold security inks that change color when we move it.
Looking for Virgo
Just in case, by some mistake, we forgot to go out without our trusty barcode reader and we left our UV flashlight in our coat, The easiest way to check if they are trying to deceive us is to look for the Virgin of the Pomegranate by Fra Angelico in one of the golden frames. Without that image, the tenth is not real.