ë The BOM Squad ë ë presents ë "Various Scams" by Mr. Sandman 09/14/92 ____________________ / Disclaimer! \ / Some of the methods \ / discussed in this file \ / are illegal to do! This file \ /is purely for reading enjoyment! \ ---------------------------------- Well here we go with another file. This one will tell you some scams you can pull to make some easy money which nobody will have any record of. (In other words the IRS won't know.) If these scams are done right then you could be pulling in a good ammount of money weekly. Scam #1 ======= For this scam you will need a friend and you or your friend must be fairly good at a sport. In this file I will use basketball as the sport. Here is what you do. It would also help if your friend is from a different school. Now find a kid to play in basketball who really sucks and destroy him! Try and really beat him by a large number of points. Make sure plenty of people are around to see this game and make sure the word gets around about it. Now a couple days later bring your friend with you and play the kid you just beat. Make sure kids are around who have money or like to bet. Fortunately these kinds of people aren't hard to find. Now before the game starts make sure you don't hang around your friend. The trick is to act like you don't really know him. Have your friend approach you and say, "Man, when are you going to give up this sport? YOU SUCK! I mean, anyone could beat you!" Now you should argue with him for a while and then bet him something like 50 dollars that you will cream this kid. Have your friend accept the bet and meanwhile you should fill everyone in on how you just killed this kid. Have your friend walk around to all the people at the game before it starts and make like 50 dollar bets with the people that you will lose. Once he has got a large sum of money going in bets begin the game. The hardest part is done and here comes the easy part. All you have to do is lose the game on purpose. Don't lose by alot but just a little under his score. Also, never have a higher score than he does in the game because if you win you are screwed. Play to like a score of 15 or something. Make sure you have money on you and then go over and pay your friend. Have him collect the money from the other kids there within the week if he can't get the money at the game. This scam is called the hussle and it can be done with any sport. You can also do it the opposite way by having your friend play and lose a couple games and then have him win. The hussle is one of the best moeny making scams ever invented. NOTE: The bet you make with your friend is important because if you have nothing to lose some people may claim you lost the game on purpose but if you have 50 dollars riding on it you are safe. Once you get all the money split it 50/50 with your friend. Scam #2 ======= Have you ever seen those football pools? This scam is really easy. Go home and print (I assume you have a printer) up a list of the games that are going to occur the weekend following weekend. Make a bunch because people love these things. On the sheet make it so people will have to circle the team they want and what the score will be. Include the spreads on the sheet. You can obtain all the info on spreads from the sports page in a newspaper. Write on the sheet that it costs 5 dollars to join and that whoever gets the most number of wins and scores correctly will win all the money submitted by the other people. Try not to let anyone know you are running this. Find an empty locker in your school and put a lock on it. Then on the sheet tell them to put the sheet in an envelope with the 5 dollars and to slip it through the vent of the locker # you are using. Try and have these sheets ready by monday to get the most people to play. Write on the sheet that the person should write their name and locker number on the sheet so they can collect their money if they win. Now here is the trick. If you successfully kept your identity a secret then you can keep all the money for yourself and on the next sheet list your name as the winner. You get all the cash! However, you can only do this once so you'll maybe want a friend to win the next time and split the money 50/50 with him. Also, it will be impossible for anyone to find out how many people actually submitted any money to this so if someone wins put a certain ammount of the money in an envelope and put it in the kids locker. Then keep the rest for yourself. Always be sure to put down the winners name on the next sheet so in case anyone feels they've been scammed thay can ask that person if he collected any money. This is a nice scam because you can do it every week for the whole year. Whhy just do football pools? When football is over do hockey, basketball, and baseball pools. You will make alot of money. Scam #3 ======= Here is one of my favorite scams because I do it all the time and believe it or not it is legal. You must be able to play an instrument or have some other talent you can show off. I use an acoustic guitar for this. How many of you have ever been stuck in a subway or on a corner where some homeless person has obviously just found or stolen an instrument and is sitting there making awful noises trying to get money. Many people hat this but when there is one that actually plays well he gates alot of money. You can take advantage of this. Find yourself some old clothes you couldn't care less about and roll them around in the mud and then get yourself real dirty and put on the clothes. Now drive or take a train in to New York City or any other large city and find youself a subway car or a street corner. I normaaly find a busy corner and then play my acoustic guitar. I normally play classical pieces beacause it seems to relax all the high strung execs in the city and they give you money for it. I leave my guitar case there in front of me and people just throw the money in. Thius works because they love the sound of the music and you look like a homeless person so they already have a little pity for you. I've made over 200 dollars just about everytime I've done this and if a cop gives you any trouble or knows you are not homeless then tell him you aren't and you haven't told anyone that you are and that it is perfectly legal for you to dress in the type of clothes you are wearing. It is perfectly legal. However, if you feel you aren't making enough then try this. NOTE: The following will probably make the scam illegal. Before you go make yourself a little sign that says, Dear People, I am a homeless person. Any donations given to me for my music will be greatly appreciated because they will help me to get some food, a place to sleep for one night, and will allow me to have enough to keep my guitar in shape so that I may continue playing for you. Thank you. This will get almost anyone to give you money since you aren't just sitting there asking for money with the smell of whiskey on your mouth and you will appear to be human. You are begging but you aren't really. Lots of people will fall for this but I haven't even had to stoop this low yet to make a good sum of money. So if you have any musical talent then this could be very good for you. I hope you enjoyed this file. Maybe it will even keep you from having to go through the hell of getting a job to pay for car insurance or anything else. On a closing note I think it should be known that if you slurp your soup in New Jersey in a public place you can be arrested so try to keep from doing thiss. Until next time, Mr. Sandman P.S. 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