Nice Scam

Jul. 17th, 2003 11:48 am
andrewducker: (Default)
[personal profile] andrewducker
Nicked from [livejournal.com profile] budgie:

What you do is print up some expensive stationery and mailshot details of an investment newsletter to 64,000 potential subscribers. For half of them, you predict that the FTSE-100 stock exchange index will go up the following week. For the other 32,000, you predict a decline.

The next week, you mailshot the 32,000 who were given the 'correct' tip and make another prediction: half are told the market will go up, half are told it will go down. Then you hit the next 16,000. Then 4,000. And so on.

Soon, a core of punters will believe they've been given infallible tips six weeks' running. Finally you invite the 1,000 left on the list to sign up for a subscription at £1,000 for a year. If they all pay, that's an easy £1m.

Date: 2003-07-19 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aberbotimue.livejournal.com
loving your work...

oh, and by the way...

the stock market is gona go up next week..

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