Although they were originally invented in California, fortune cookies have become very popular in modern China. Many restaurants have hired professional fortune tellers to produce the fortunes. The problem with having individuals overseeing the fortune writing process is that they are susceptible to bribes. Chinese gangsters have been paying fortune writers to write fortunes predicting death. The gangsters then slip there fake fortunes to their rivals and kill them under questionable circumstances, always taking care to leave the fortune with the dead man. Many of the police are superstitious and will not investigate further once they find the fortunes with the body.