Fuck Fung Shui does not only get you laid (and occasionally jailed), it is of course also a cash cow for many. And this includes our copyright pirates. Our hardworking Customs busted a “major” piracy vice yesterday and confiscated 140 copies of counterfeit Fung Shui and fortune-telling books in seven different locations. Sales price of these 140 books is between HK$ 5,600 and HK$ 6,720 so you can imagine our Customs officers being very proud. Books counterfeited include those written by Mak Ling Ling, Master So, and our long forgotten local fraud fortune-telling pioneer Li Kui Ming.

The real books are sold at HK$ 40-48 each. The counterfeit ones are sold at HK$ 34-38. The cost of making these counterfeit books amounts to approx. HK$ 12-15 each. So the criminals are making about HK$ 26 max for each copy. For the 140 copies confiscated, we’re talking about HK$ 3,640 of profit! Hurray! We do like to give kudos for the great copying job, as the fake ones looked just the same as the real ones. Compare for example this (fake) with this (real); and this (fake) with this (real). It’s reported that seven persons were arrested yesterday. So if they ever got away with this, they’d have made a whopping HK$ 520 per head. Good job Customs.

Now of course all Hong Kong people love hate pirated goods and are happy to see folks like these get caught. Perhaps these criminals could learn a lesson or two from their online counterparts though.. Read about your year of the tiger fortune and Fuck Shui by 20+ fortunetellers here.