An old Danish phrase for stating that something is a fraud / unreliable is to claim that ""det gælder ad Wandsbek[/Vandsbæk] til"" (i.e. ""this is valid in Wandsbeck.""). Wandsbek was one of the three locations in the Danish monarchy where the first lottery drew its numbers, and this expression dates from the early years of this lottery's life where a number of people tried to claim prizes in Copenhagen with tickets from Wandsbeck. Since each of the three towns drew its own set of numbers, a ticket from one town was worthless in the two others.