( CNN ) -- The World Cup is apparently making a lot of people `` ill '' in China . Football fans are preparing for the kick off the biggest sporting event of the year by purchasing fake sick notes online . Most World Cup matches will take place in Brazil when it is past midnight in China , or in the early hours between 3 and 6 a.m . The schedule has Chinese media dramatically referring to this year 's competition as `` the World Cup with the greatest time difference in history . '' To catch those pre-dawn games , fans are resorting to claiming sick leave by purchasing fake doctor 's notes through e-commerce sites such as Taobao . Standard pads of sick notes have always been available on the site , for as little as RMB 1 ( $ 0.16 ) per pack . But to get a note that looks authentic , with a hospital 's stamp and a convincing diagnostic scrawl from a doctor , it will cost up to RMB 300 ( $ 50 ) per note , local media reports . One football fan said he was considering purchasing sick leave slips online for the thrill of watching games as they happened . `` Recordings of matches are meaningless , only live broadcasts are fun . If I stay up all night to watch the games , I will be so sleepy the next day and my boss will scold me , '' the man surnamed Liu told Sina News . Direct searches for fake sick notes wo n't work on e-commerce sites such as Taobao . To get around the illegality of selling fraudulent notes , vendors title their items as `` proof of diagnosis note . '' Sina also reported that one online vendor was claiming to offer sick notes with consultation records registered at a Beijing hospital , at double the price of notes without registered records . To prevent employees taking fake sick leave , one IT company in Guangdong province has made a rare offer of three days paid leave to employees who wish to watch World Cup matches , according to local media . Fake sick notes made headlines in China in 2012 when a postal worker in Hong Kong used 130 doctor 's notes bought from Taobao to scam more than HK $ 217,000 ( about $ 28,000 ) in sick leave allowance as well as 635 days of leave in the span of four years . Hong Kong 's Independent Commission Against Corruption found pads of blank doctor 's notes as well as bogus doctor 's stamps at the 40-year-old offender 's home .
World Cup matches will take place while most people should be asleep in China . To deal with the inconvenient game schedule , workers are taking bogus sick leave . Vendors sell fake doctor 's notes online for as much as $ 50 .