• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 8 months ago
cake
Cake day: November 27th, 2024

help-circle



  • One of my favorite scam stories from Dark Net Diaries is in one of the preambles and talks about an investment “advisor”.

    You get a call from them about a stock tip about a stock going up, and they are like, you dont have to beleive me, just watch it. It goes up.

    They call back the next week with a new stock tip talking about how they were right and made so much money. Again, they dont ask for an investment, just that you watch the stock. It goes up again.

    They call back the next week with the ask.

    Turns out, they were calling 1000 people, 500 going up, 500 going down. They called everyone that they had a right prediction for the second week. Same process 250 up, 250 down. They again call everyone that they had it right for.

    Such a cool scam.




  • The strength of this move is the empty chair. It is one thing to not have town halls. That is easy to forget and go, business as usual. It is another to have a town hall by the opposing party and have it highlighted that they are willing to meet to discuss but your elected representative was not. It highlights the deficit instead of allowing it to be overlooked.

    Would be nice to see some advertising campaign comparing representatives to dads that left to get some milk and never came back.