Scams
Spam With a News Peg (Genius)
This email showed up in my inbox yesterday.
I Was a Victim of Fraud and I Don’t Care
I didn’t buy that gas.
The Kid on the Subway Train
On my home from the office last night, a kid, about 10 years old or so, got on my subway car and announced that he was selling packages of cookies for a dollar to raise money to buy school supplies.
I’ve heard this song and dance before, of course: A kid gets on the subway car and announces that he or she is selling M&Ms for his or her basketball team, or so that he or she can stay off the street and go to college. It’s an easy story to fall for if you haven’t already heard it a million times, which I have, and why I’ve come to train myself to ignore the announcement, burying my head into my book, or whatever I’m reading on my phone.
Everybody Wants a Good Review (And a Good Book Recommendation)
People find all kinds of way to make money, and Todd Rutherford earned $28,000 a month writing fake reviews for books. GettingBookReviews.com no longer exists, but he’s planning on making money by offering a new service where he’ll blog and tweet about your book for $99. But who needs book reviews when you can just do this?
Fun Ways to Make Money Until You Get Caught: Art Forgery And/Or Theft
Another fun way to make money until you get caught.
Groupons and Groupon Settlement Both Stupid
Perhaps you got this email last week, and like me wondered: Is this spam?
Signs Your Summer Internship Is Going Well
“Your boss eats a hot dog during your interview.”
Three Fun Ways to Make Money, Until You Get Caught: Part 3
1. Roasting human fetuses, covering them in gold leaf, selling them for $6,500 2. Smuggling the fetuses into Taiwan and selling them for $40,000 3. Buying one of the fetuses, as everyone knows that charred, gold-leafed fetuses bring riches and luck :(
Scams
The next day at school, you told all your friends about it, and you began identifying those former cool kids as “The Scam Artists.”
