I'm in United States. Upstate New York to be exact. You can sometimes see the IR filter. If it's there. You can look down the barrel aperture (TAKE THE BATTERIES OUT FIRST TO MAKE SURE OF SAFTEY) and see if you see that color. If not, I'd send it back and get your money back and buy something from like lucentoptics.com.
The IR filter looks like this:
http://www.jr-worldwi.de/photo/image...ible_small.jpg
If you contact the company it's made by, they will tell you a lie.