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Latest news in the get-rich-quick world. If you have others that you would like to share, keep them to yourself - I got enough dumb ideas as is!
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High-rolling gamblers are exploiting a quirk in Cash WinFall
Tuesday, 02 August 2011 09:34
Who says you can't make money by playing the lottery? You just have to be smart about it. Systematic gamblers are exploiting a hole in Cash WinFall lottery in Massachusetts, raking in huge profits every 3 months. The idea is simple (fairly). There's a 2 million jackpot, which was won once in the last 7 years. If nobody wins the jackpot, the smaller prizes go up and players get higher rewards during something called rolldown weeks.
A Toronto statistician, Srivastava, calculated that a gambler who bought 200,000 Cash WinFall tickets during four rolldown weeks in a year would win enough to cover the $1.6 million investment and earn a profit of $240,000 to $1.4 million - without ever winning the jackpot. Srivistava’s calculations suggest that the top five groups and individuals playing Cash WinFall collectively win back the cost of their tickets plus $1 million to $6 million in profits each year from about 12 days of gambling. That is a lot of money, for very little work. :-)
Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 August 2011 10:50
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A guy got a house for 16 bucks
Monday, 25 July 2011 06:55
Talk about getting rich and quick! A man moved into a house in Flower Mound, Texas by taking advantage of a little known Texas law and only paying $16 for a form to fill out. The house was on foreclosure for more than a year and the owners walked away. Finally the bank that financed this house went out of business (I don't think it was because of that particular house, but as you can imagine they've probably have given out a lot of mortgages like that).
Last Updated on Monday, 25 July 2011 07:22
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Fake Apple stores
Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:27
Since we are on the subject, here's another way to get rich of Apple (or other major brand). Not only that China produces fake Apple products, they also have fake Apple stores, selling fake Apple products. Apparently, there are 3 of them - all within walking distance from each other.
Well, it was just a question of time. If you sell fake ipods and your neighbour starts selling them, you have to stay competitive and come up with more creative ways to sell your junk.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:38
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Amazon seller lists book at $23,698,655.93
Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:58
Here's one get rich quick scheme for you - Amazon seller listed a book on flies for $23,698,655.93 - plus shipping. No, this is not the author who listed it at that price, rather a price fight between 2 robots. But if you can sell it at that, you'll be set.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:11
Calvin and Hobbes on supply and demand
Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:39
Here's a tested get-rich-quick scheme for you. All you need to do is find someone to subsidize you.

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:48
Lottery winner picks golden ticket after being cut in line
Monday, 04 April 2011 10:25
Talk about luck! Mike Barth let somebody slide in line in front of him and ended up picking the winning ticket. The jackpot was worth $319 million, which Barth will split with six coworkers at the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal. The odds of winning the jackpot were one-in-176-million. (Nuts!) The guy who cut the line gets an all-too-rare serving of justice. This goes to show you - if something is meant to happen - it will happen, whether or not you get cut in line.
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Last Updated on Monday, 04 April 2011 10:37
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Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling
Monday, 14 March 2011 14:52
Here's a get-rich-quick scheme for you: develop a poker bot (or hire somebody to do that). Poker bots are not new, but until recently they were not very good at poker. Humans were better at the nuances of the game (such as bluffing) and could routinely beat the machines. But artificial intelligence has come a long way in the last few years, far enough that poker bots are now good enough to win tens of thousands of dollars on major game sites, which are clamping down on them.
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Last Updated on Monday, 14 March 2011 10:59
Toronto man cracked the code to scratch-lottery tickets
Thursday, 10 March 2011 08:41
Mohan Srivastava is the statistician who cracked the OLG's scratch lottery game. The first lottery Mohan Srivastava decoded was a tic-tac-toe game run by the Ontario Lottery in 2003. He was able to identify winning tickets with 90 percent accuracy. Here’s how it works.
1. Look over the card. You’ll be hunting for so-called singletons—numbers on the visible tic-tac-toe grid that appear only once on the whole card.
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 March 2011 09:03
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Unclaimed $100,000 lottery ticket to expire this month
Monday, 17 January 2011 07:39
For anyone around TO, who would like to take their chances in this get-rich-quick scheme. Someone won $100,000, somewhere in Toronto almost a year ago, but never claimed the prize. Its the Encore Lotto 6/49 ticket, which became a winner during the Saturday night lottery on Jan. 30, 2010. The OLG encouraged the lucky person or group to come forward even if they misplaced their ticket. If someone can identify where the ticket was sold and other basic information. So all you have to do is the get the purchasing place right.
Last Updated on Monday, 17 January 2011 07:46
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