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UFO-loonies and snake-oil salesmen

I occasionally browse and read this wonderful and extremely amusing forum called AboveTopSecret. It’s perhaps the largest online forum devoted entirely to topics like UFOs, conspiracies, New World Order, telepathy and PSI powers or other such alternative/New Age stuff. The majority of the posts are pretty boring and follow the generic “Barack Obama/goverment is evil” [...]

Don’t mind the men behind the curtain

In the seemingly excellent and very compelling documentary Don’t Mind The Men Behind The Curtain, a speaker leads us, step by step, through (a/the) history where the Federal Reserve is a big conspiracy controlling the world. The men running the FED take more and more control over various aspects of your life in order to [...]

I Grift - An Overview of “Get Rich Quick”-Schemes

One interesting scheme for example is the “Football Picks Scam”. Basically the conartist will take a group of people, say 100, and tell 50 of them that one team will win, and the other 50 that the other team will win. The 50 “winners” are split again in two groups of 25. And so forth until a small group of people is left that has received a series of accurate tips on football matches. At some point the con artists starts demanding money for his services.

Failed Web Business Ideas

Ok. I am the first one to admit it. We, the APMID people, are greedy and lazy. I mean really lazy and REALLY greedy and vanglorious too. We dangle on dreams of luxurious limos, we plan to be some day relaxing on a 12 million dollar yacht sipping Singapore Slings and snorting cocaine from playmates [...]

Plim! You are hypnotized, now gimme all your money!

Two weeks ago Italian police announced they are hunting a man who is suspected of hypnotising a supermarket cashier and making her to hand over money from cash register. Several newspapers reported this, and there’s also CCTV footage on BBC News website.
Now, how is this possible? Can you really hypnotize someone just like that, and [...]

Remote-Controlled Bank Heist

You don’t always need guns or masks to rob a bank - sometimes you don’t even have to be physically there. This happened in Sweden, only to be foiled by an alert bank employee.

Largest Bank Fraud in the History?

31-year old french futures trader Jerome Kerviel is suspected of fraud and causing a 4,9 billion euro (7.1 bn USD) damage to France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. If these allegations are true, the losses at the bank would be the largest ever caused by an individual trader and over five times amount of losses [...]

  
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