Scratch off lottery tickets

I’ve been sitting here, working on my fortune, which at the moment consists of a small pile of metallic looking dust. What is the material that you “scratch” off of these tickets? Is it harmful to me in some way? Is it even metallic? The only other quality that I can observe is that it sticks to your fingers like mad, and won’t even wash off very well.

It’s just dyed latex.

Find some fake lottery scratch off tickets on the internet (with fake winners of 10k…or a million) and give them to friends when it’s their birthday.