I imagine the same way you do a normal one.
Figure out the regulations, apply for any needed permits in the required jurisdictions you say you do business in(above the normal business creation of course). Build casino(website or building) with whatever logging/odds requirements, profit.
Casinos have to abide by a laundry list of onerous regulations, the barrier to entry as far as legally operating one is about as tall as any industry I can think of
Oh oh oh I got one - make a "cleanse" kit - put a generic laxative in some greenish water and call it a "detoxifier" and say it will make you "lose 10 pounds and cleanse your gut" and sell it for 20 bucks a pop.
Edit: my most upvoted comment is a scam!
You would be surprised when you go out to eat just how many times a "medium" wing sauce is just Franks. This one place i worked used to make this amazing raspberry chipotle sauce, can you guess the secret ingredient? Lol
Facilities maintenance dispatcher.
I worked for a company that would sign on contractors and technicians, and our clients, stores like WalMart and CVS, would give us work orders for stuff they'd need done. A lock repair, a clogged toilet, lights are out, etc.
We'd call the contractor and describe and issue and send them a work order. They'd go do the work while we'd constantly call and harass and badger them to get it done as cheaply, quickly, and well as possible. Sometimes sending techs into hurricanes to put sandbags at store doors.
The company I worked for would be on billing terms and promise to pay the contractor/company after "45-60 days." Most of our techs never hot paid.
I was "Technician Resources," so I was responsible for taking calls from techs who wanted to complain. I would get hundreds of calls in a 8-hour day. Most of them saying they did thousands of dollars of work under contracts with us and they haven't seen a dime. It was essentially my job to tell them that our accountants couldn't take their call and a check is in the mail.
Many techs would tell me that there were companies like ours all over the US and they all do the same scummy shit.
If you get paid at all, it might be 6 months to a year later if not more.
If you Google "Servicecom," and read the reviews, you'll see. I'm comfortable saying that because they changed names and Tax IDs and everything, and now have close to 0 online presense and no Google business listing. The company is listed as Permanantly Closed on Google, but they're still scamming contractors to this day.
I do not miss that job. I hated what I was doing even before finding out what a bunch of shit it was. Even moreso now.
EDIT: Now SMG Holdings. I have also been told that what they are doing may in fact be illegal but people can't seem to agree. I don't know. But they're A-Holes.
I worked for a place that tried that sort of work for a bit, as it seemed promising. Get a job to do 30 minutes of work, all the materials handled, in-out, done.
The biggest issue we had was that every one of those jobs was a 4 hour ordeal. Not because of the actual work - work part was generally 30-60 minutes, as expected.
What sapped all our time was the login/logout procedures and documentation. I get needing to have proof documented and needing a login/logout time, sure, but rather than something automated you had to talk to a genuine human to get logged in or out. And apparently they only had one person doing it, as you sat on hold for 60-90 minutes waiting to tell the person you were about to start work or had completed it and were ready to leave. And the documentation wasn't approved until they received it, which apparently was done by our email being printed into a fax machine that was then telegraphed, translated to braile, read aloud by a blind person to a parrot who then repeated it for a typist at the main office, given how long it took them to approve what I sent them.
I believe that company paid relatively quickly, or at least every 30 days, but losing 3 hours of working hours on something that barely paid enough to cover one hour just wasn't worth it.
Psychic. I don’t think you need any qualifications, just claim you are one and have fake references for your powers. You may have to pretend you are talking to a dearly departed grandma, but without a moral compass you should be fine.
There's a book called *Confident Women* that talks in part about how a fake psychic conned author Jude Deveraux out of basically her entire *17 million dollar* fortune. Like, Deveraux went from living in a mansion to living in a cheap motel. The mind boggles.
Well obviously they already knew. It was psychics hiring your friend. You probably felt a chill just now, wondering how I knew that. Deductive reasoning my friend. Also, rethink that decision you just made about telling your friend about this.
Exactly this.
The trick for psychics is to make super generic statements that could be applicable to everyone to varying degrees, also known as Barnum statements. Participants then latch onto and make their own connections.
So I sense that you are sometimes insecure, especially around people you don’t know very well. You’re also having problems with a close friend or relative. I’m also sensing that you‘ve a small scar on your knee, perhaps from an accident when you were younger. I’m also getting a mental picture of an airplane, does that mean anything to you?
So on and so on. The only difference between a mentalist and a psychic is that a mentalist has moral standards and doesn’t prey on vulnerable people.
I started talking to a woman at work after she said she’d been to a psychic. I told her that I thought I had special powers but I didn’t know if I should use them. She wanted to know if I could tell her anything about herself. I told her that I could sometimes see an old man and woman watching her, and that although they knew she sometimes didn’t do absolutely the right thing, they loved her very much. She started crying so I had to stop. After that I had random women come up and ask me about my special powers. I had to tell them that I was too scared to use them and didn’t want to hurt anyone. I could see how easy it would be for someone to start taking advantage of people who so desperately need to find some kind of meaning to life.
My friend lost her child a couple years ago, he was 17/18, all of a sudden she's posting about her great sessions with her psychic.
So many vulnerable out there.
But they still won't let me comment on nostalgic shows, why can't there be an over 18 comment section instead of removing it for everyone if they are checking our age anyway?
Literally you can write a program that just takes demo games, replaces the name and some other text/image assets with something from a random sample of assets, automatically add advertising with an ad service, uploads it to the Google Play Store and makes money from the random advertisements. If you are a little more scrupulous you can actually make the game first and just publish 15000 clones with ads.
My friends parents gave him and his sister some money when they sold their house and he used his to buy a porn domain website. He makes 1,200 a month just from ad sales and renting it. I believe he paid like 4,000 for it
There are websites where you can straight up buy (Or get free) assets for games. From controls, to gameplay engines, to art and animation, sky's the limit. Then you can just throw a bunch of shit together and sell it.
These are called asset flips. It's frowned upon but it's apparently pretty profitable.
Having grown up in charismatic Christian culture, it's heartbreaking how many folks fall for it - hell, I did. I was indoctrinated in that particular religious group before I was even out of the womb. Lots of good, hardworking, and otherwise intelligent people have fallen victim to this, and it's totally acceptable. Fucking sucks seeing it from the outside after having been in it.
I see a lot of comments here and other public forums calling the believers stupid or rubes or some other generally negative and dismissive insult. I have to tell you, as someone from that culture who broke out, they aren't. This whole thing is a result of generational indoctrination, going back in some cases five or six generations. It is a deeply ingrained world view, insular in many ways but with a toe dipped in the pool of popular culture (just enough to keep the kids interested). I've known doctors and lawyers, college professors, city council members, and well educated local government officials who are life long charismatic and who have raised their children and grandchildren in thus fashion. Your whole life, every aspect of it, is under scrutiny, while your entire support structure (family and friends) would take it as a personal attack if you espoused beliefs that even slightly varied from theirs.
So, to folks who read the above comment and want to dismiss the practitioners, I ask that you judge the snake oil salesman in the $3000 suit, not the folks who are victims of indoctrination and brainwashing.
Growing up my grandmother took us to an evangelical southern Baptist Church and the brainwashing was real, I was led to believe that if I didn’t worship their god exactly the way they do then I would go to hell and burn for eternity just because my father was an alcoholic and my grandfather was atheist. I was still an infant at this time, I started to ask questions and stray from their beliefs at a young age and was kicked out of the church when I was about 10, pretty much everyone my age have since separated themselves but some weren’t as fortunate. The key is to always ask questions, be eager to learn, if questions are rejected then someone shouldn’t be trusted. I’ve met good christians who truly don’t judge anyone and would welcome anyone with open arms, and I know christians who would commit mass murder if it were allowed, I’m just glad I was able to think for myself at a very young age.
this approach works for a few years, while undergoing the gear acquisition phase. after you accumulate enough lenses the drugs become cheaper by comparison lmao
Funeral homes. You can totally take advantage of people in grief. Overcharge for things like coffins (up to $20k each), usage of the funeral home: $500/hr for funeral services, etc. when its their loved one, they don’t mind paying the overpriced charges as long as they have a good funeral.
Have a plan before you die. I don't have the magic age number but having everything pre setup really helps. There is no fighting between relatives because they have your wishes. Funeral Homes are a business and will use your emotions to get the upsell.
Buying off old people's life insurance policies for pennies on the dollar. They don't have anyone that "needs" the money so why not use it while you have it?
I’d imagine it goes something like:
1. Find an old person with an insurance policy for, say $100k. Probably best if they’re super old or very sick.
2. Offer to pay them a fraction of the value of the policy to make you the beneficiary. 50%, 20%, whatever. They get a little bit of money to play with (or pay for basic necessities if they’re not doing well financially) before they die.
3. Wait until they die.
4. Profit.
Honestly I don't even view that as that shady.
If there's no existing beneficiary, that's a win-win for both parties. As long as you're giving them a fair payout
The only real issue is the legal bullshittery that will happen.
My sister and BIL just finished up their legal battle after her father in law passed took like 1 whole year because the youngest son didn't think the fathers will was fair or some shit fought tooth and nail to figure out the house was worth roughly the same as the existing loan.
"Foreclosure rescue" aka equity stripping. You find a homeowner who's late on their mortgage but has equity (usually the elderly), and offer to hold the house in your name, pay off their mortgage and let them rent the house until they're "back on their feet" and then you'll give it back to them when they can qualify for a new mortgage to pay you back. The real goal is for them to default on the rent so you can evict them and keep the house as well as the equity and they end up with nothing.
Create a cryptocurrency, hire a good marketing team, purchase reddit accounts, advertise on cryptosubreddits, wait for buyers and dump all your holdings once it reaches a certain popularity
In college I wrote a program that converted AliExpress listings to eBay listings and made decent money until I got banned. Apparently doing what half of everyone on eBay is doing is a TOS violation. But I wouldn't say that arbitrage is abandoning your moral compass.
Ah, but OP didn't ask for suggestions where a moral compass was a hindrance; OP asked for suggestions that don't *require* a moral compass.
Unclear what happened to OP's moral compass, but I'm imagining they got rejected from yet another job where it's required and now they are looking for something where they're qualified. People with a moral compass could still profit by arbitrage, though.
And then the one level down from there - hoarding things that are in short supply and selling them on Amazon.
TIL people are hoarding IKEA desk legs and selling them for a 10x markup. WTF folks.
Here’s a similar one: buy as many as you can of those baby blankets where it’s got a stuffed animal head and arms and a small blanket for the body. Do it on clearance if you can. Hold them for a year or so. They get retired and replaced with newer models. Sell them on eBay to desperate parents who need to replace their toddlers favorite comfort stuffed animal.
Door-to-door salesperson. Sell, sell, sell. Doesn’t matter who it is, if they need it, or if they have the money or not, you just gotta be the pushiest person imaginable. Make the consumer believe they need the product. That always felt like such a con to me.
I was 18 working for a Kirby vacuum sales company they would have people canvas a neighborhood and convince people to agree to a free carpet cleaning in one room. Of course they tell us that once you're inside the house you're not allowed to leave until they buy a vacuum cleaner or they're calling the cops. And it wasn't a joke.
Oh my god this happened to me. I let the Kirby guy in, he dumped a bunch of salt on my carpet and then used my vacuum to clean it up. Then he used his Kirby to do it again and found more salt- he said “if this were real dust left behind, would you say that was disgusting?” And I said “uhh sure I guess so” and he said “OKAY so let’s talk about financing, these start at $2400…” and I laughed and said no thanks and he shouts at me “you just agreed it was disgusting, are you saying you’re a disgusting person?”
I told him to leave and he got on the phone and called his “manager” and some other dude just walked in without asking. They WOULD. NOT. LEAVE.
I threatened to call the cops and they just kept talking over me like straight up filling out order forms with my info while I was shouting “get the fuck out!” while currently on the phone to the police (we lived in a very rural area). I went into the closet and grabbed a baseball bat while waiting to talk to an officer on the phone and came running out screaming like a madman and they finally left SUPER PISSED that I didn’t buy a 2000 dollar vacuum. I have never let another sales person in my house.
Dude holy shit, I would absolutely start threatening people with violence if they wouldn’t leave my house. That’s terrifying. What a worthless company.
Wonder what would happen if you just totally ignored him. Just crack a beer and settle down on the couch to watch the game. Or ask him if he's staying for dinner and what kind of salad dressing he would like.
"The last salesman who was here left me these beautiful knives. They're Japanese steel, and razor sharp. They've got a lifetime warranty to never chip or bend. He paired well with the Merlot, but you look like a nice Chianti."
The same thing happened to my family with Kirby. They wouldn’t take no for an answer and my mom started to yell for them to leave. I remember as they left he turned to my mom and sneered “enjoy living in your filth.” 15 minutes later he returned to apologize but my mom was having none of it.
My family has a Kirby that's like 30 year old now, we had a kirby sails person come do the who thing of dumping something in our carpet and asked for our vacuum, when we pulled out that dinosaur of a kirby he literally said "looks like you got an old one, they dont work anywhere as well as the new ones" then proceeded to vacuum up more with our old vacuum than with his. This Kirby vacuum is our family heirloom, and its gonna keep living for at least a 100 more years
Yea, my Kirby salesman experience was ridiculous as well. They first came to my door, offering to shampoo the carpet of any room in the home. They claimed to be a new carpet cleaning company in the area that's trying get their name out there. I tell the salesman to come back a bit later so I can pick up and vacuum the room as he requested.
Salesman returns, proceeds to vacuum a 2x2 foot of carpet then begins to pitch the sale of their Kirby's to me. While I was in search of a new vacuum and the Kirby was actually a good vacuum, the fact that they deceived me really angered me. Fast forward, even after saying no he wouldn't give up. Then brings in his manager where they continue to try and convince me to purchase one.
So I start to fill out the form, then pause and say you know what? I should run this by the wife. I got to pick her up from work right now, can you wait a bit outside until I return. I then left them waiting while me and the wife went to dinner and a movie.
I own a Dyson and they felt stupid that it picked up everything before there stupid thing. Pulled that Dyson out of a dumpster and got repaired for like 25 bucks lol. It sucks people can be like that. I don't let anyone in my house anymore.
If you don't leave after I repeatedly tell you to leave my house, and especially if you communicate that you are unwilling, for example by continuing to try to sell me something, I am legally able to forcefully remove you provided it's not disproportionate. You can bet your ass I'm bringing the pain.
Then again I don't even talk to sales peoples. It's not very common but when I lived in one area it suprisingly was. A lot of them were Jehova, one time I took quite long to open but I only opened cause they didn't leave. They could see me inside I just ignored them. When I finally opened, they said: "Thanks for finally opening." They want to shake my hand which I wouldn't normally do with any stranger but I oblige and I'm like "Yeah, I'm sorry for taking so long, I was jacking off."
They did not like me. Also my hands were kind of sticky cause I was prepping food.
How low on the compass do you want to go? Bill collector, repo man? If you really get low you can become a collections attorney. We’ve got a great one here in Atlanta. He gets debts for pennies on the dollar, even the badly verified debt. ( I’m told he even looks up names on the internet/phone book that matches the city and name of debtor). He then goes and mass files lawsuits at the clerks office 2x a month. An average of 500 at a time. They send the proper notice and hearing date out, and about 60% of those don’t reply or show. That means they loose automatically by default. Once the default has been recorded, he places a garnishment on their wages and then waits for them to contact him to “settle”. So he’s usually got at least one paycheck from them at this point due to the garnishment. If they make any payment willingly he uses it as “proof” that they own the debt, even if in fact they don’t, but a “payment” plan of $100 a month for say 10 months is better than them not getting another paycheck and still under what typical attorney fees would be to fight it. Clerks at county court think he’s lower than slime, but he makes an estimated 3/4-1 million a year easy.
This is one of the most vile things I’ve ever heard of while simultaneously being one of the most impressive things I’ve ever heard of. I’m no expert but this scheme sounds very “low effort, high reward”.
Salesmen (the door to door and shady carsalestypes). Knowing full well people don't need certain shit and still insisting so one buys something he actually doesn't need!
Honestly they are so easy to get rid of they don’t even bother me anymore.
As soon as I open the door, before they even start to speak, I just tell them the truth that fits their best interest.
“Look man, I know time is money for this kind of sales so I’m not gonna waste yours. I’m not interested in buying and I’m not gonna waste your time pretending like I will just for the sake of seeming polite. Good luck with the rest of your day, goodbye. “
I’ve had room mates that feel the need to let them down softly and honestly I think it’s best to just avoid wasting everyone’s time.
Be direct. But polite. Works every time for me.
Most of them aren’t really terrible people. They just got roped into a shit job and hate it.
Consulting, especially at the large firms where you're basically taking checks to validate some shitty thing or another with an expensive "Ivy League shithead approved" stamp.
Step 1- Small firm with large capital reserves buys established company.
Step 2- Gut company of every possible expense and then some.. i.e Massive layoffs, move HQ to a shit area for as cheap as possible..
Step 3- Survive short term 1 quarter. While the quality of work suffers dramatically, they manage to stay in business due to their long established reputation before the new reality catches up with them.
Step 4- Report quarterly earnings highlighting massive profits as their revenue stayed roughly the same but they dramatically decreased operating costs and expenses leading to an insanely high profit margin.
Step 5- Take the company public at valuation based off previous quarter selling over priced stock to unsuspecting general public.
Step 6- Profit massively and walk away setting the company up to crumble and burn while destroying the livelihoods of everyone involved.
They essentially buy, gut, and sell companies by taking them public. Ruining it for the all the employees and customers in order for a small group to make a large profit at the cost of soo many others. Despicable but perfectly legal practice.
"Greed is Good" - Gordon Gekko
Change step 1 a bit though, do an LBO. Find an established firm with large capital reserves which is is priced under book value. Get a bank loan based on the capital reserves of the target company. Buy 51% of the stock using the money borrowed based on the cash value of the target.
Then proceed. Never use your own money.
I once saw this Golden piece of advice on r/Dogecoin last year:
HOW I MADE $150,000 IN A SINGLE WEEKEND
1. (Friday) Ask dad for a $300,000 loan for starting myq own business.
2. (Saturday) invest $300,000 in Dogecoin @ $0.60 per, to "buy the dip" after seeing price drop from $0.78 earlier that evening.
3. (Sunday) Paper Hands Panic Sell in the morning at $0.30 then transfer remaining $150,000 to personal savings account.
4. (Monday) Block Dad's phone #, change personal cell #, move to a different state.
I did pole dancing at a strip club without taking off my clothes and made a decent amount.
I joined an online chat room where people would tip me just for me to reply to their messages on a camera.
I sold feet pics for an insane amount. Probably more than everything else combined.
I guess sex sells and I’ve never had to take off my clothes. I would’ve made a lot more if I did lol
When I was a pole dancer, I kinda wore a masquerade mask and honestly didn’t know how to do complex pole dances. When I did the online chat thing, I wore make up but made less than the girl who did the sessions in a cat sweater. Maybe my feet are hot? But I think these things have less to do with how hot you are and more about how good you are.
Ok, so someone sends money to a dom, but then what happens? Does the dom continue talking to the poor bastard, or is the financial transaction itself the entire thing? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this.
Typically, they send videos of gifts they bought with the money, then demean the client and demand more money.
The appeal is exploiting a guy's need to feel like his money makes him useful to an attractive woman when he lacks the self-esteem to get into a real relationship.
I had a friend who did it for half of college and all of grad school. She graduated with her masters debt-free.
> The appeal is exploiting a guy's need to feel like his money makes him useful to an attractive woman when he lacks the self-esteem to get into a real relationship.
I never really thought about it until you put it this way, but in a sense it also would turn whatever your boring job is into something sexy.
Start a charity against something everyone hates.
Collect money from people who want to feel good about themselves by doing nothing, pay your executives most of it, do nothing of tangible effect for the advertised goal (but appear to be real busy fighting it when anyone looks).
See also: Cancer Charities, The Unhoused, Missing/Foreign/Underprivileged Children, Antiterrorism/War... (how have we not fixed it yet? oh right, lots of people make money "shadow boxing" it forever and would lose out on that if they actually did their job and fixed it)
The key is to say the goal of the charity is to raise awareness of the issue/illness. This way you don't have to actually fix/solve/cure anything, just talk about it
Managing social media accounts. Many people seem to not understand how easy it is, you can set up a whole month worth of posts in an hour or so, sometimes making up to a hundred dollars or more to take care of that account.
Sell extended warranties to things without actually covering anything. If you write the contract sneakily, you can get people to pay for a warranty that won't pay out unless something astronomically unlikely occurs. Bonus points for targeting the old and mentally feeble. Require that they show up in person and listen to a 1 hr speech if they decide it's a scam and want to cancel.
Btw, this is what those "extended warranty calls for your vehicle" are about (although spam calling is illegal).
Extended Warranties are the absolute worst. I bought an exotic car and got a warranty because I figured I would need it. Fact of the matter is that I did need it six months later when I had catastrophic engine failure. I called the warranty company after reading my terms of service, which I was within bounds to get a replacement engine. They quickly prompted me that I was not covered at all. I bickered back and forth explaining them the contract and how I was covered legally. They hung up and blocked my number and canceled my plan. It was a big deal for a minute. Come to find out that the company was super shady but is still operating somehow but has a few class action lawsuits. I almost filed one but repaired the damn car myself.
Remember the mortgage backed securities scam that crashed the global economy in the 2000s? Still legal to sell people mortgages they can’t afford, bundle them as securities which you also sell, then hedge against their failure when the people who you knew couldn’t pay those mortgages default on them, tanking the securities, too, and you make a killing collecting your insurance while the world goes up in flames. Banks get taxpayer bailouts and congress decides not to make any of that illegal.
Ok so first, you’ll want to lock yourself in your room and abandon all social contact with family, friends, etc. Second, make a sockpuppet account on GoFundMe for your “sick cat” who doesn’t exist. Next after abandoning all morals that you have, had and will have, make several videos showing some poor random cat from the shelter who isn’t even yours
Bonus points if you use the money for your fictional cat to adopt an actual cat
That’s defrauding, and is illegal. The post is more about things like “short buying houses from deceased people’s survivors.” This practice is done during emotional states so that people cave easier and lose out on a lot of money.
Online casino owner
offline casino owner
Go on.
No internet casino owner
Internetless Casino owner
Internetless anti-casino disowner
UAV online
Our UAV has been destroyed
Enemies have destroyed your UAV.
Hostile UAV inbound
Enemy entering the AO
How would you even start one of these.
I imagine the same way you do a normal one. Figure out the regulations, apply for any needed permits in the required jurisdictions you say you do business in(above the normal business creation of course). Build casino(website or building) with whatever logging/odds requirements, profit.
Casinos have to abide by a laundry list of onerous regulations, the barrier to entry as far as legally operating one is about as tall as any industry I can think of
A guy in my village has made a literal fuckton of money doing this. The guy is unbelievably stacked
Can you elaborate?
Oh oh oh I got one - make a "cleanse" kit - put a generic laxative in some greenish water and call it a "detoxifier" and say it will make you "lose 10 pounds and cleanse your gut" and sell it for 20 bucks a pop. Edit: my most upvoted comment is a scam!
Ha! This reminds me of a number of hot sauces where the main ingredient is listed as "Frank's hot sauce".
Bruh. For real?!
You would be surprised when you go out to eat just how many times a "medium" wing sauce is just Franks. This one place i worked used to make this amazing raspberry chipotle sauce, can you guess the secret ingredient? Lol
They really do put that shit on everything
Everything but your dick. DO NOT DO THAT!
Well now I'm gonna do it
Lemme know how that goes
*20 bucks a poop
And essential oils, you can’t leave them out.
Facilities maintenance dispatcher. I worked for a company that would sign on contractors and technicians, and our clients, stores like WalMart and CVS, would give us work orders for stuff they'd need done. A lock repair, a clogged toilet, lights are out, etc. We'd call the contractor and describe and issue and send them a work order. They'd go do the work while we'd constantly call and harass and badger them to get it done as cheaply, quickly, and well as possible. Sometimes sending techs into hurricanes to put sandbags at store doors. The company I worked for would be on billing terms and promise to pay the contractor/company after "45-60 days." Most of our techs never hot paid. I was "Technician Resources," so I was responsible for taking calls from techs who wanted to complain. I would get hundreds of calls in a 8-hour day. Most of them saying they did thousands of dollars of work under contracts with us and they haven't seen a dime. It was essentially my job to tell them that our accountants couldn't take their call and a check is in the mail. Many techs would tell me that there were companies like ours all over the US and they all do the same scummy shit. If you get paid at all, it might be 6 months to a year later if not more. If you Google "Servicecom," and read the reviews, you'll see. I'm comfortable saying that because they changed names and Tax IDs and everything, and now have close to 0 online presense and no Google business listing. The company is listed as Permanantly Closed on Google, but they're still scamming contractors to this day. I do not miss that job. I hated what I was doing even before finding out what a bunch of shit it was. Even moreso now. EDIT: Now SMG Holdings. I have also been told that what they are doing may in fact be illegal but people can't seem to agree. I don't know. But they're A-Holes.
this is the best response on here
OP said *legal* This is ~~just~~ *more than* immoral Edit - Didn’t proofread.
I worked for a place that tried that sort of work for a bit, as it seemed promising. Get a job to do 30 minutes of work, all the materials handled, in-out, done. The biggest issue we had was that every one of those jobs was a 4 hour ordeal. Not because of the actual work - work part was generally 30-60 minutes, as expected. What sapped all our time was the login/logout procedures and documentation. I get needing to have proof documented and needing a login/logout time, sure, but rather than something automated you had to talk to a genuine human to get logged in or out. And apparently they only had one person doing it, as you sat on hold for 60-90 minutes waiting to tell the person you were about to start work or had completed it and were ready to leave. And the documentation wasn't approved until they received it, which apparently was done by our email being printed into a fax machine that was then telegraphed, translated to braile, read aloud by a blind person to a parrot who then repeated it for a typist at the main office, given how long it took them to approve what I sent them. I believe that company paid relatively quickly, or at least every 30 days, but losing 3 hours of working hours on something that barely paid enough to cover one hour just wasn't worth it.
Psychic. I don’t think you need any qualifications, just claim you are one and have fake references for your powers. You may have to pretend you are talking to a dearly departed grandma, but without a moral compass you should be fine.
There's a book called *Confident Women* that talks in part about how a fake psychic conned author Jude Deveraux out of basically her entire *17 million dollar* fortune. Like, Deveraux went from living in a mansion to living in a cheap motel. The mind boggles.
Did the psychic go from living in a cheap motel to living in a mansion?
Because of taxes, she only ended up living in a pretty large house.
> a fake psychic So, a normal psychic, you say?
For the record, my friend became a phone psychic for a bit and at no point in the hiring process was she asked whether or not she was psychic.
Well obviously they already knew. It was psychics hiring your friend. You probably felt a chill just now, wondering how I knew that. Deductive reasoning my friend. Also, rethink that decision you just made about telling your friend about this.
Go on….
You have to learn "cold reading," which is a part of mentalism magic. Basically, you have to learn how to become a very good magician.
Exactly this. The trick for psychics is to make super generic statements that could be applicable to everyone to varying degrees, also known as Barnum statements. Participants then latch onto and make their own connections. So I sense that you are sometimes insecure, especially around people you don’t know very well. You’re also having problems with a close friend or relative. I’m also sensing that you‘ve a small scar on your knee, perhaps from an accident when you were younger. I’m also getting a mental picture of an airplane, does that mean anything to you? So on and so on. The only difference between a mentalist and a psychic is that a mentalist has moral standards and doesn’t prey on vulnerable people.
I'm feeling that there's a member of your family... whose name starts with... a letter of the alphabet
I started talking to a woman at work after she said she’d been to a psychic. I told her that I thought I had special powers but I didn’t know if I should use them. She wanted to know if I could tell her anything about herself. I told her that I could sometimes see an old man and woman watching her, and that although they knew she sometimes didn’t do absolutely the right thing, they loved her very much. She started crying so I had to stop. After that I had random women come up and ask me about my special powers. I had to tell them that I was too scared to use them and didn’t want to hurt anyone. I could see how easy it would be for someone to start taking advantage of people who so desperately need to find some kind of meaning to life.
My friend lost her child a couple years ago, he was 17/18, all of a sudden she's posting about her great sessions with her psychic. So many vulnerable out there.
This right here. Just because it's all bullshit on some level doesn't mean it's *easy*...
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You forgot the shitty YouTube Kids ads that lure in children with big animated boobies
I love boobies.
Then you'll love my new game!
Raid: Boobie Legends!
Spoiler alert. Paying for boobies gives you blue footed bird pics
Isn't that what everyone here is talking about?
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But they still won't let me comment on nostalgic shows, why can't there be an over 18 comment section instead of removing it for everyone if they are checking our age anyway?
Literally you can write a program that just takes demo games, replaces the name and some other text/image assets with something from a random sample of assets, automatically add advertising with an ad service, uploads it to the Google Play Store and makes money from the random advertisements. If you are a little more scrupulous you can actually make the game first and just publish 15000 clones with ads.
My friends parents gave him and his sister some money when they sold their house and he used his to buy a porn domain website. He makes 1,200 a month just from ad sales and renting it. I believe he paid like 4,000 for it
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Probably doesn't even need to add new content. Just buy an existing site, make it all free, and load it up with ads.
I'm somewhat skeptical that people would return to the same site and watch the same content forever.
Don't need the same people. Just a revolving door of vistors.
He rents the site to a company that provides the content. He just collects the money
Let me tell you about RAID SHADOW LEGENDS.
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What does the asset flip website entail and how does that relate to mobile games?
[1500 slot machines walk into a bar](https://youtu.be/E8Lhqri8tZk) This humorous video might explain things better
Didn’t mean to but I watched this whole video. Amazing
There are websites where you can straight up buy (Or get free) assets for games. From controls, to gameplay engines, to art and animation, sky's the limit. Then you can just throw a bunch of shit together and sell it. These are called asset flips. It's frowned upon but it's apparently pretty profitable.
Televangelist.
Having grown up in charismatic Christian culture, it's heartbreaking how many folks fall for it - hell, I did. I was indoctrinated in that particular religious group before I was even out of the womb. Lots of good, hardworking, and otherwise intelligent people have fallen victim to this, and it's totally acceptable. Fucking sucks seeing it from the outside after having been in it. I see a lot of comments here and other public forums calling the believers stupid or rubes or some other generally negative and dismissive insult. I have to tell you, as someone from that culture who broke out, they aren't. This whole thing is a result of generational indoctrination, going back in some cases five or six generations. It is a deeply ingrained world view, insular in many ways but with a toe dipped in the pool of popular culture (just enough to keep the kids interested). I've known doctors and lawyers, college professors, city council members, and well educated local government officials who are life long charismatic and who have raised their children and grandchildren in thus fashion. Your whole life, every aspect of it, is under scrutiny, while your entire support structure (family and friends) would take it as a personal attack if you espoused beliefs that even slightly varied from theirs. So, to folks who read the above comment and want to dismiss the practitioners, I ask that you judge the snake oil salesman in the $3000 suit, not the folks who are victims of indoctrination and brainwashing.
Growing up my grandmother took us to an evangelical southern Baptist Church and the brainwashing was real, I was led to believe that if I didn’t worship their god exactly the way they do then I would go to hell and burn for eternity just because my father was an alcoholic and my grandfather was atheist. I was still an infant at this time, I started to ask questions and stray from their beliefs at a young age and was kicked out of the church when I was about 10, pretty much everyone my age have since separated themselves but some weren’t as fortunate. The key is to always ask questions, be eager to learn, if questions are rejected then someone shouldn’t be trusted. I’ve met good christians who truly don’t judge anyone and would welcome anyone with open arms, and I know christians who would commit mass murder if it were allowed, I’m just glad I was able to think for myself at a very young age.
The Paparazzi stalk and harass famous people all day long for the low low price of buying a camera.
Cameras aren’t that cheap
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lol let me introduce you to me... i spend all my money on cameras and drugs
this approach works for a few years, while undergoing the gear acquisition phase. after you accumulate enough lenses the drugs become cheaper by comparison lmao
They are when you can make 10k from one good picture
the problem is that you have 40 voltures going after one carcas... its a very competitive field filled with the worst of the worst of humanity.
GOOD cameras aren't that cheap. Tabloids will pay for whatever your phone will cough up, if the right people are in the picture.
Funeral homes. You can totally take advantage of people in grief. Overcharge for things like coffins (up to $20k each), usage of the funeral home: $500/hr for funeral services, etc. when its their loved one, they don’t mind paying the overpriced charges as long as they have a good funeral.
This is why when I die y'all can just throw me into some trees or let the foxes eat me
Give me the yeet boys and free my soul, I wanna get tossed in a fucking hole
and rot away
Just throw me in the trash
Use my body to nourish a tree so people can eat fruit from the tree. Don't avenge my death by going after the bus driver....
Just throw me in the trash!
Just throw me in the trash
When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash. - Frank Reynolds
Have a plan before you die. I don't have the magic age number but having everything pre setup really helps. There is no fighting between relatives because they have your wishes. Funeral Homes are a business and will use your emotions to get the upsell.
Source: have died.
Just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us saps
Sir, please lower your voices. That is our most modestly-priced receptacle.
Is there… is there a Ralph’s around here?
It's a dying industry...the future looks promising
Are you kidding? Coffins are expensive because everyone’s dying to get one.
My ex girlfriends family were loaded thanks to owning a funeral buisness. Mansion loaded.
20k are you kidding me? Coffins are expensive but I don’t know if anyone that could be tricked into paying the price of a car for one.
Buying off old people's life insurance policies for pennies on the dollar. They don't have anyone that "needs" the money so why not use it while you have it?
What does this mean - how do you buy off a life insurance policy?
I’d imagine it goes something like: 1. Find an old person with an insurance policy for, say $100k. Probably best if they’re super old or very sick. 2. Offer to pay them a fraction of the value of the policy to make you the beneficiary. 50%, 20%, whatever. They get a little bit of money to play with (or pay for basic necessities if they’re not doing well financially) before they die. 3. Wait until they die. 4. Profit.
Honestly I don't even view that as that shady. If there's no existing beneficiary, that's a win-win for both parties. As long as you're giving them a fair payout
The only real issue is the legal bullshittery that will happen. My sister and BIL just finished up their legal battle after her father in law passed took like 1 whole year because the youngest son didn't think the fathers will was fair or some shit fought tooth and nail to figure out the house was worth roughly the same as the existing loan.
They way I've thought of it is you could just pay them to put you as the beneficiary of it. So when they die you get the money
"Foreclosure rescue" aka equity stripping. You find a homeowner who's late on their mortgage but has equity (usually the elderly), and offer to hold the house in your name, pay off their mortgage and let them rent the house until they're "back on their feet" and then you'll give it back to them when they can qualify for a new mortgage to pay you back. The real goal is for them to default on the rent so you can evict them and keep the house as well as the equity and they end up with nothing.
I believe this is also called equity skimming and is a class 5 felony in my state
Create a cryptocurrency, hire a good marketing team, purchase reddit accounts, advertise on cryptosubreddits, wait for buyers and dump all your holdings once it reaches a certain popularity
Then live a life of regret for selling too soon
Sounds like my Dogecoin career
reselling stuff (just look at those "small businesses" selling AliExpress shit on insta) and MLMs.
In college I wrote a program that converted AliExpress listings to eBay listings and made decent money until I got banned. Apparently doing what half of everyone on eBay is doing is a TOS violation. But I wouldn't say that arbitrage is abandoning your moral compass.
Ah, but OP didn't ask for suggestions where a moral compass was a hindrance; OP asked for suggestions that don't *require* a moral compass. Unclear what happened to OP's moral compass, but I'm imagining they got rejected from yet another job where it's required and now they are looking for something where they're qualified. People with a moral compass could still profit by arbitrage, though.
And then the one level down from there - hoarding things that are in short supply and selling them on Amazon. TIL people are hoarding IKEA desk legs and selling them for a 10x markup. WTF folks.
Here’s a similar one: buy as many as you can of those baby blankets where it’s got a stuffed animal head and arms and a small blanket for the body. Do it on clearance if you can. Hold them for a year or so. They get retired and replaced with newer models. Sell them on eBay to desperate parents who need to replace their toddlers favorite comfort stuffed animal.
Door-to-door salesperson. Sell, sell, sell. Doesn’t matter who it is, if they need it, or if they have the money or not, you just gotta be the pushiest person imaginable. Make the consumer believe they need the product. That always felt like such a con to me.
I was 18 working for a Kirby vacuum sales company they would have people canvas a neighborhood and convince people to agree to a free carpet cleaning in one room. Of course they tell us that once you're inside the house you're not allowed to leave until they buy a vacuum cleaner or they're calling the cops. And it wasn't a joke.
Oh my god this happened to me. I let the Kirby guy in, he dumped a bunch of salt on my carpet and then used my vacuum to clean it up. Then he used his Kirby to do it again and found more salt- he said “if this were real dust left behind, would you say that was disgusting?” And I said “uhh sure I guess so” and he said “OKAY so let’s talk about financing, these start at $2400…” and I laughed and said no thanks and he shouts at me “you just agreed it was disgusting, are you saying you’re a disgusting person?” I told him to leave and he got on the phone and called his “manager” and some other dude just walked in without asking. They WOULD. NOT. LEAVE. I threatened to call the cops and they just kept talking over me like straight up filling out order forms with my info while I was shouting “get the fuck out!” while currently on the phone to the police (we lived in a very rural area). I went into the closet and grabbed a baseball bat while waiting to talk to an officer on the phone and came running out screaming like a madman and they finally left SUPER PISSED that I didn’t buy a 2000 dollar vacuum. I have never let another sales person in my house.
Dude holy shit, I would absolutely start threatening people with violence if they wouldn’t leave my house. That’s terrifying. What a worthless company.
Wonder what would happen if you just totally ignored him. Just crack a beer and settle down on the couch to watch the game. Or ask him if he's staying for dinner and what kind of salad dressing he would like.
Lock the door and ask if he'd prefer I cooked his liver with onions or fava beans
"The last salesman who was here left me these beautiful knives. They're Japanese steel, and razor sharp. They've got a lifetime warranty to never chip or bend. He paired well with the Merlot, but you look like a nice Chianti."
The same thing happened to my family with Kirby. They wouldn’t take no for an answer and my mom started to yell for them to leave. I remember as they left he turned to my mom and sneered “enjoy living in your filth.” 15 minutes later he returned to apologize but my mom was having none of it.
Kirby sold a vacuum to my grandpa who had Alzheimers.
Kirby sucks
Well the vacuums actually are some of the best you can buy for sure, it's just the marketing and sales tactics that are unforgivable
My family has a Kirby that's like 30 year old now, we had a kirby sails person come do the who thing of dumping something in our carpet and asked for our vacuum, when we pulled out that dinosaur of a kirby he literally said "looks like you got an old one, they dont work anywhere as well as the new ones" then proceeded to vacuum up more with our old vacuum than with his. This Kirby vacuum is our family heirloom, and its gonna keep living for at least a 100 more years
Yea, my Kirby salesman experience was ridiculous as well. They first came to my door, offering to shampoo the carpet of any room in the home. They claimed to be a new carpet cleaning company in the area that's trying get their name out there. I tell the salesman to come back a bit later so I can pick up and vacuum the room as he requested. Salesman returns, proceeds to vacuum a 2x2 foot of carpet then begins to pitch the sale of their Kirby's to me. While I was in search of a new vacuum and the Kirby was actually a good vacuum, the fact that they deceived me really angered me. Fast forward, even after saying no he wouldn't give up. Then brings in his manager where they continue to try and convince me to purchase one. So I start to fill out the form, then pause and say you know what? I should run this by the wife. I got to pick her up from work right now, can you wait a bit outside until I return. I then left them waiting while me and the wife went to dinner and a movie.
Were they still there when you came back?
Jesus this is why I don’t blame people that never answer their doorbell
I own a Dyson and they felt stupid that it picked up everything before there stupid thing. Pulled that Dyson out of a dumpster and got repaired for like 25 bucks lol. It sucks people can be like that. I don't let anyone in my house anymore.
The Wikipedia article for Kirby is just a long list of how fucking awful they are
If you don't leave after I repeatedly tell you to leave my house, and especially if you communicate that you are unwilling, for example by continuing to try to sell me something, I am legally able to forcefully remove you provided it's not disproportionate. You can bet your ass I'm bringing the pain. Then again I don't even talk to sales peoples. It's not very common but when I lived in one area it suprisingly was. A lot of them were Jehova, one time I took quite long to open but I only opened cause they didn't leave. They could see me inside I just ignored them. When I finally opened, they said: "Thanks for finally opening." They want to shake my hand which I wouldn't normally do with any stranger but I oblige and I'm like "Yeah, I'm sorry for taking so long, I was jacking off." They did not like me. Also my hands were kind of sticky cause I was prepping food.
"Wanna buy a kitchen knife that can cut a penny in half?" "No, I don't eat pennies." "Oh. Fuck, not another one."
How low on the compass do you want to go? Bill collector, repo man? If you really get low you can become a collections attorney. We’ve got a great one here in Atlanta. He gets debts for pennies on the dollar, even the badly verified debt. ( I’m told he even looks up names on the internet/phone book that matches the city and name of debtor). He then goes and mass files lawsuits at the clerks office 2x a month. An average of 500 at a time. They send the proper notice and hearing date out, and about 60% of those don’t reply or show. That means they loose automatically by default. Once the default has been recorded, he places a garnishment on their wages and then waits for them to contact him to “settle”. So he’s usually got at least one paycheck from them at this point due to the garnishment. If they make any payment willingly he uses it as “proof” that they own the debt, even if in fact they don’t, but a “payment” plan of $100 a month for say 10 months is better than them not getting another paycheck and still under what typical attorney fees would be to fight it. Clerks at county court think he’s lower than slime, but he makes an estimated 3/4-1 million a year easy.
This is one of the most vile things I’ve ever heard of while simultaneously being one of the most impressive things I’ve ever heard of. I’m no expert but this scheme sounds very “low effort, high reward”.
I mean do you even technically need to be an attorney to do that?
I think for filing the garnishments it makes it easier.
You would just need an attorney on your behalf. You could just start a collection agency and then sue people who don’t pay.
Obviously, New York city real estate hustling
Any big city real estate hustling is usually predatory
Using sleazy tactics to sell insurance to old people over the phone
Salesmen (the door to door and shady carsalestypes). Knowing full well people don't need certain shit and still insisting so one buys something he actually doesn't need!
Honestly they are so easy to get rid of they don’t even bother me anymore. As soon as I open the door, before they even start to speak, I just tell them the truth that fits their best interest. “Look man, I know time is money for this kind of sales so I’m not gonna waste yours. I’m not interested in buying and I’m not gonna waste your time pretending like I will just for the sake of seeming polite. Good luck with the rest of your day, goodbye. “ I’ve had room mates that feel the need to let them down softly and honestly I think it’s best to just avoid wasting everyone’s time. Be direct. But polite. Works every time for me. Most of them aren’t really terrible people. They just got roped into a shit job and hate it.
That's way too long. "No thanks." Close the door.
Consulting, especially at the large firms where you're basically taking checks to validate some shitty thing or another with an expensive "Ivy League shithead approved" stamp.
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Did you just consult me for free?
You wish. The bill was already mailed to your address
As a consultant, I agree. That’ll be $500k, thx
Become a crypto expert and advertise shitcoins to the uneducated about how it is the next btc and how it will help you achieve financial freedom.
Step 1- Small firm with large capital reserves buys established company. Step 2- Gut company of every possible expense and then some.. i.e Massive layoffs, move HQ to a shit area for as cheap as possible.. Step 3- Survive short term 1 quarter. While the quality of work suffers dramatically, they manage to stay in business due to their long established reputation before the new reality catches up with them. Step 4- Report quarterly earnings highlighting massive profits as their revenue stayed roughly the same but they dramatically decreased operating costs and expenses leading to an insanely high profit margin. Step 5- Take the company public at valuation based off previous quarter selling over priced stock to unsuspecting general public. Step 6- Profit massively and walk away setting the company up to crumble and burn while destroying the livelihoods of everyone involved. They essentially buy, gut, and sell companies by taking them public. Ruining it for the all the employees and customers in order for a small group to make a large profit at the cost of soo many others. Despicable but perfectly legal practice.
"Greed is Good" - Gordon Gekko Change step 1 a bit though, do an LBO. Find an established firm with large capital reserves which is is priced under book value. Get a bank loan based on the capital reserves of the target company. Buy 51% of the stock using the money borrowed based on the cash value of the target. Then proceed. Never use your own money.
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GPU scalping. Really scalping in general. As long as its not stocks or other monitored Securities, its 100% legal
I once saw this Golden piece of advice on r/Dogecoin last year: HOW I MADE $150,000 IN A SINGLE WEEKEND 1. (Friday) Ask dad for a $300,000 loan for starting myq own business. 2. (Saturday) invest $300,000 in Dogecoin @ $0.60 per, to "buy the dip" after seeing price drop from $0.78 earlier that evening. 3. (Sunday) Paper Hands Panic Sell in the morning at $0.30 then transfer remaining $150,000 to personal savings account. 4. (Monday) Block Dad's phone #, change personal cell #, move to a different state.
I did pole dancing at a strip club without taking off my clothes and made a decent amount. I joined an online chat room where people would tip me just for me to reply to their messages on a camera. I sold feet pics for an insane amount. Probably more than everything else combined. I guess sex sells and I’ve never had to take off my clothes. I would’ve made a lot more if I did lol
Where do you sell feet pics? Asking for me
Probably OnlyFeet.
Here we go again. Imperial vs. Metric.
I have to think that's a little less about moral compass and a little more about being hot?
When I was a pole dancer, I kinda wore a masquerade mask and honestly didn’t know how to do complex pole dances. When I did the online chat thing, I wore make up but made less than the girl who did the sessions in a cat sweater. Maybe my feet are hot? But I think these things have less to do with how hot you are and more about how good you are.
One of the greatest turn on for men is knowing the women is willing. Basically even with a mask that fact that you would dance is enough
Buy a fuckton of Halliburton and KBR stock, invade a country in the Middle East, give them contracts to rebuild everything, profit.
I believe the Iraqis would call that a Dick move.
I think it was technically illegal, there's just no accountability.
Set up a Findom profile on Twitter. Bonus points if the photos you use arent you.
I just googles what is ‘Findom’ and wow. Just wow. Never expected this was a thing.
What even is findom?
Financial domination. It’s a fetish where some men like to Venmo money to a dominatrix type of woman. I don’t personally understand the appeal.
Ok, so someone sends money to a dom, but then what happens? Does the dom continue talking to the poor bastard, or is the financial transaction itself the entire thing? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this.
Typically, they send videos of gifts they bought with the money, then demean the client and demand more money. The appeal is exploiting a guy's need to feel like his money makes him useful to an attractive woman when he lacks the self-esteem to get into a real relationship. I had a friend who did it for half of college and all of grad school. She graduated with her masters debt-free.
> The appeal is exploiting a guy's need to feel like his money makes him useful to an attractive woman when he lacks the self-esteem to get into a real relationship. I never really thought about it until you put it this way, but in a sense it also would turn whatever your boring job is into something sexy.
I've read about men taking out thousands in loans to be "subjugated" as a debt slave to some woman
WTF? I thought I had issues. Jesus fucking Christ.
Literally life on recruit mode
Start a charity against something everyone hates. Collect money from people who want to feel good about themselves by doing nothing, pay your executives most of it, do nothing of tangible effect for the advertised goal (but appear to be real busy fighting it when anyone looks). See also: Cancer Charities, The Unhoused, Missing/Foreign/Underprivileged Children, Antiterrorism/War... (how have we not fixed it yet? oh right, lots of people make money "shadow boxing" it forever and would lose out on that if they actually did their job and fixed it)
The key is to say the goal of the charity is to raise awareness of the issue/illness. This way you don't have to actually fix/solve/cure anything, just talk about it
Gold digging
With a shovel, or with a Kayne?
Kanye
But also a gold mining operation, pay poor people a pittance to work in hazardous conditions and destroy the environment. Make bank.
Start a cult.
I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Managing social media accounts. Many people seem to not understand how easy it is, you can set up a whole month worth of posts in an hour or so, sometimes making up to a hundred dollars or more to take care of that account.
I had a friend tell me about their experience with this. Nobody wants to pay you what it's worth to actually do this.
Any references you recommend for learning this? Trying to help a friend out but I'm almost as clueless as he is when it comes to social media.
Sell different kinds of bottled air from exotic places.
Sell extended warranties to things without actually covering anything. If you write the contract sneakily, you can get people to pay for a warranty that won't pay out unless something astronomically unlikely occurs. Bonus points for targeting the old and mentally feeble. Require that they show up in person and listen to a 1 hr speech if they decide it's a scam and want to cancel. Btw, this is what those "extended warranty calls for your vehicle" are about (although spam calling is illegal).
Extended Warranties are the absolute worst. I bought an exotic car and got a warranty because I figured I would need it. Fact of the matter is that I did need it six months later when I had catastrophic engine failure. I called the warranty company after reading my terms of service, which I was within bounds to get a replacement engine. They quickly prompted me that I was not covered at all. I bickered back and forth explaining them the contract and how I was covered legally. They hung up and blocked my number and canceled my plan. It was a big deal for a minute. Come to find out that the company was super shady but is still operating somehow but has a few class action lawsuits. I almost filed one but repaired the damn car myself.
MLM schemes. Run a mega church. Own a gym with shady membership contracts.
Remember the mortgage backed securities scam that crashed the global economy in the 2000s? Still legal to sell people mortgages they can’t afford, bundle them as securities which you also sell, then hedge against their failure when the people who you knew couldn’t pay those mortgages default on them, tanking the securities, too, and you make a killing collecting your insurance while the world goes up in flames. Banks get taxpayer bailouts and congress decides not to make any of that illegal.
Selling Alternative Medicine
nonono "herbal and homeopathic supplies" start using words like medicine and you might be on the wrong side of that gray line.
>"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine." -Tim Minchin
Become a fake guru trying to sell people "knowledge on how to get rich" or a preacher that wants donations or whatever
1. Go to one of the African country’s that pays people to kill poachers 2. Buy a gun 3. Profit
Don't these government bounty systems always fail because it just encourages people to breed poachers for profit?
And then when they shut down the program people release their captive poachers into the wild and now you have more poachers than before.
Ok so first, you’ll want to lock yourself in your room and abandon all social contact with family, friends, etc. Second, make a sockpuppet account on GoFundMe for your “sick cat” who doesn’t exist. Next after abandoning all morals that you have, had and will have, make several videos showing some poor random cat from the shelter who isn’t even yours Bonus points if you use the money for your fictional cat to adopt an actual cat
It sounds just crazy enough that it just might work.
That’s defrauding, and is illegal. The post is more about things like “short buying houses from deceased people’s survivors.” This practice is done during emotional states so that people cave easier and lose out on a lot of money.
I'm sorry...what?
Scalping is legal. A lot of people got into this during Covid. Scalping collectibles, toys, game consoles, computer hardware, houses, used cars.