There is a scam going around right now that is extremely difficult to resist for people to be tempted to be taken advantage of. It's a pretty brilliant scam too and for the lay-person, it's extremely difficult to resist. Here is how it works.
You get a letter or postcard in the mail from an anonymous sender. You receive the letter in the middle or latter part of the week and it says that the sender knows who the winner of a certain football game on the upcoming Sunday game will be and then gives you the prediction. That's it. So you may throw the card out or keep it or whatever. So the game comes and the prediction was correct. A few days later, you receive another piece of mail with yet another prediction for a game on the upcoming Sunday. It too is correct. You keep getting these pieces of mail and EVERY SINGLE ONE is right. You start getting a bit freaked out because so far, 100% of the predictions are correct which is seemingly impossible and yet it actually is happening. So now, SuperBowl Sunday is coming up. You receive one last piece of mail stating that every prediction to date has been correct. If you want the winner of the Superbowl so you can make a big bet on the game, it's going to cost you. Send a Money Order in the amount of $5000.00 (or any other high dollar amount) to a certain address. Of course, you never get the winner and you got taken for $5K. Here is how it works.
Let's say you receive five pieces of mail predicting five games...all correct, 5 out of 5.
The scam artist actually sends out 100,000 pieces of mail. With postage and hard costs, he/she is looking at about $40,000 to do it but the payoff will be huge. 50,000 of the mailers predict Team A and the other 50,000 predict Team B of the same game. Only half are right obviously. So for the half that are wrong, the scam artist doesn't send any mail again. The next week, he does the same thing, but to only the winners of the previous week. He does this week after week for five games and then the last piece asking for the money. His total costs are going to be about $80,000 for the entire campaign and after five weeks, he's going to be left with 6,250 people who will receive the final email requesting money. Let's say that 5% actually fall for it and send him the $5,000. That's 312 people each sending a money order for $5,000. That is combined total of $1,560,000 or a profit of $1.48 million. It's really clever and VERY tempting for people to fall for because the accuracy is so astounding. Just beware if you get such a letter in the mail though.



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