People carry all their luggage to avoid being fined for being overweight on air travel.
Being financially abandoned by an airline is already a standard situation. Nobody really understands how the difference between 25 and 30 kilograms can affect the flight, but not all of us can fool the system and open the bag and throw on all 70 sets of clothes right at the check-in counter. But in China there was one such smart guy...
And he is far from the only one... But the discoverer was indeed a Chinese. And in general, this idea has its own logical meaning (a little crazy, of course, but still makes sense). We have no idea how American airport security would react to a jacket filled with phone chargers, but some people in Asia and Europe are quite successful at getting between countries this way.
The Dutch "Robin Hood" received $60,000 worth of electronics absolutely free with the help of couponjd.
You probably don't think you can succeed by redeeming product coupons. Moreover, coupons often apply to things that we don’t actually need. Well, you never know, someone needs to cut their nose hair on Sunday evening, and then there’s a 15% discount, then yes...
What makes us different from the mad genius Norbert Versvijver, the Norwegian coupon champion? After poring over the fine print on the coupons that made him famous, Verswijver realized that a promotion at a local electrical store didn't have a rule saying he couldn't combine coupons.
“20 percent minus!”, a couple of coupons “$15 minus!” and so on...
He collected as much as he could, and did not lag behind the store employees until he was able to take the most expensive electronics absolutely legally and almost free of charge.
But how much can you get away with before the store realizes that you are leading them by the nose? Well, Versvijver successfully bought 50,000 euros worth of electronics... for just 60 cents. This may be his most impressive act, but it is not his only one. One day, he bought frozen food in the same way and donated it to the poor, earning the "Robin Hood of Coupons" achievement.
Grape Juice Companies (Vine-Glo) circumvented Prohibition by telling people how not to make wine.
When the United States tried to ban early alcohol consumption in the early 20th century, a movement of moderation and participation in sober, thoughtful reflection about how badly they might have ended up swept the entire country. If you didn't want to risk your life dealing with Al Capone and other bootleggers, then you could always get drunk with plenty of good homemade wine. Just like good old grandma's wine. But grandma has a lot of her own worries, doesn't she? And thanks to some clever loopholes, it was completely legal.
Vine-Glo and a handful of other companies sold jars of grape concentrate or pressed grape briquettes, right along with yeast tablets, which we suppose could be used to make wine, but who would think such a stupid idea? This would violate the nation's temperance pledge, so Vine-Glo included instructions to help customers avoid this terrible sin (I quote):
"Warning: Do not place this briquette in a one-gallon jug, add sugar or water, or allow it to sit for seven days, or it will result in an illegal alcoholic beverage."
It’s simple, everyone is warned and notified about how much, what and how not to do so as not to break the law.
During Prohibition, people were allowed to make 200 gallons (1,000 liters) of grape juice per person per year (30 liters per day). So all the laws were followed...
Credit card users were getting airline miles thanks to a poorly designed government program
After minting $1 billion in dollar coins, the American government desperately tried to get people to use $1 coins instead of paper bills. They decided to offer a special program. If you want to exchange banknotes for coins, they will come to you and exchange them.
Of course, they were not fools. Everyone loved their paper dollars and no one wanted to walk around with a swollen pocket full of coins, just like now. But there were a few people who saw this as a great way to get a few free airline miles.
You are probably familiar with the system when banks award you various bonuses for using services, usually these are miles from the airline. Their only request is to buy goods or cash out using their card.
With these cards, people "purchased" one-dollar coins from the government and immediately used them to pay off the card loan. This way, people could theoretically earn an infinite number of miles. One guy known as Mr. Pickles claimed to have bought $800,000 in coins and earned 2 million miles and lifetime platinum status. Now he can fly for free for the rest of his life.
Of course, this meant that the coins did not actually enter circulation - the government borrowed money from the same bank to deliver the coins to people's homes, only to immediately receive them back from the bank. Then people ordered more, and the government had to pay for shipping again; and so on ad infinitum. And as soon as the government realized the scheme, it immediately shut down the program.
Fighting hockey players. Or why it's so popular in the NHL
There are two things everyone knows about hockey: incredible goals and fist fights.
The NHL has long recognized that fighting plays a key role in the sport, so instead of outlawing it, it is simply trying to limit the damage caused. For example: you cannot remove your helmet during a fight, otherwise you will receive a two-minute penalty. However, this does not take into account if the helmet comes off “during the struggle.” Do you understand where this is leading? That's right: it doesn't take long for combatants to identify openings that will allow them to rip each other's helmets off for a more effective beating.
Sports journalists speculate that this loophole will soon be closed because team owners care about the integrity of their players' skulls; this is, after all, a professional sport.
Hello, in this article I want to touch on the topic of deception on the Internet, how to avoid them and not become a victim of scammers. There are more and more users on the Internet every day, and along with them there are more scammers and ways to collect money from the population. Human greed has no boundaries, and this is exactly what scammers on the Internet exploit. What are the ways to cheat on the Internet to get your money:
1. Method of deception on the Internet SMS confirmation of registration
You found on the Internet a site that you liked, it could be a dating site, or a social network for adults, or just a site that contains some information that is interesting to you, in order to get to the information you need, you will be asked to register. At the end of registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration and send a message to a short number; if you fall for this, you are guaranteed to lose a tidy sum from your phone.
2. Method of deception on the Internet: A unique technique
buy for 500 rubles earnings from 1500 rubles per day. Who among us has not seen such a message, it probably came across to everyone, not with exactly the same content, but with similar content. It happens, pay 500 dollars and get 100,000 dollars, and this method will cost several times less than the final earnings. After you pay and receive this method, you will find out that what you just made can be sold to other people and on You can make money from this and the main thing is that you won’t undermine it, you bought it yourself.
3. A way to deceive you on the Internet if you are a rich heiress or heir
Such a letter may come to your email, of course, everything is official, you will be asked to respond to the letter if it is you. You will receive a new letter, you will start a correspondence, after a few letters you will be informed that the inheritance is very large and to quickly process it, you need to send a certain amount, then to issue an invitation, then to issue a visa, then for something else, if buy it, they will extract a tidy sum from you.
4. Cheating in online casinos
You will be given a presentation on how you can easily make money in a casino by playing roulette. Simple, uncomplicated bets on red and black. They will not ask you for money for this information, everything is on a voluntary basis, they will simply recommend you some casino, and it will be a legal casino, to which you will go through the affiliate link of the person who kindly shared this information with you. The fact is that it only takes 5 minutes for any casino to recognize that you are playing unfairly with them. The casino will take action. You will not be noticed, but they will transfer you to another table, where they will take out all the money that you have credited to the casino account, it seems fair to me, and the person through whose link you entered the casino will earn money from the fact that he brought you.
5. Scheme of deception on the Internet winning the lottery
When you navigate to sites, you see a message on the left or right side of the screen: You won the lottery, your IP address was selected by the computer and you became the owner of something, you will be asked to fill out a form, write a comment on the topic of how you feel, leave a phone number, to which you will receive a message with approximately the following content: To confirm your identity, reply to the SMS and if you respond and respond, then a whole correspondence will begin with you until you run out of money on your balance and if the mobile operator does not count the money from your balance on time, you will remain in debt to the mobile operator.
6. Deception in online stores
Moving through the Internet space, you go to a store with a good design, with cheap, and most importantly, high-quality goods. You see a really worthwhile item at a bargain price marked as a promotion, which is valid for just a few more hours, you rush to pay for it, everything works out successfully for you, you see a message that within 10-15 days your purchased item will be sent to you mail at the indicated place of residence. A week passes, two, three, but, alas, there is no product and there will not be any. You go to the address of an online store, either there is no trace of it, or the support service does not answer you. Therefore, be aware that every payment system on the Internet has email addresses of partner stores, use this database to avoid unpleasant life moments.
7. Method of deception on the Internet social networks
Many of you have probably seen a message on the status of some nice woman saying that money is urgently needed for the treatment of a small child who is terminally ill. You need money urgently, there’s no time to delay, the account number is attached, if you can’t help with money, give it a thumbs up or like, this is how scammers fish out money by playing on people’s pity. Therefore, if all this is true and you decide to help the poor child. Therefore, the message must include official addresses, telephone numbers of various guardianship and trusteeship authorities, public funds that can confirm this information; it was not yesterday that they found out that their child was sick, but requesting contact information from official bodies takes a few hours.
8. Method of deception with payment systems
You will receive a letter by email with the following content, that there has been a failure in the system and you will be asked to fill out a form where you need to indicate all your personal data and do not forget to indicate your card number with PIN code or ID address with password, indicated, sent, say goodbye with money. No bank, no similar payment system will send you a request, so contact your bank by phone or go to the official website to clarify the situation.
9. Method of cheating on the Internet during match fixing
I met someone like this in person, a person knocked on my friend’s door on a social network with something like the following sentence: Are you interested in match-fixing? I answered: “Yeah, look for fools!” He: - I'm serious, there is a result on the outcome of the football match. Me: - and how much are you asking? He: - 4000 rubles. Me: I pretend to laugh creepily with emoticons, let me test it out. He answered: he gives 2 teams of England 0:1 to win, that’s it. I go into the bookmaker's office, look, and in fact, in four hours the match is really going to take place. I believed him, but checked to my happiness. I couldn’t sleep half the night, imagining my brand new Porsche or Mercedes, if the information was correct, but I was lucky, the information turned out to be wrong. Why lucky? I immediately understood the scheme this swindler used: he knocked on people’s doors and offered to buy the result of a fixed match and told everyone a different result, and for some, this result worked. And he with full confidence paid the scammer 4,000 thousand for the next result. It’s so banal, this man made money from greed.
10. Method of deception on the Internet: phishing
Collecting data from English, on some Internet resource, you may be asked for your login and password from your social networks, which are necessary to activate registration, or enter your ID from an electronic wallet. But always remember that your payment system ID is the only way to get to your money. Never enter your data on dubious sites - this risks losing money or a page on a social network, etc.
11. Autosurfing is a way to cheat on the Internet.
This is a semblance of a box or a mailer, only on these projects, you will be asked to buy bots, which for a month will work for you on the site and earn many times more than their own value, for which you will pay with your own money and in the end you will not receive anything back. Another type of fraud on axleboxes, you will surf sites all month in pursuit of collecting the required amount for withdrawal and will not receive anything for the work done, so work on proven axleboxes, earn a pretty penny, but it’s stable.
12. A way to cheat on the Internet by blocking a virus
On some resource you click on a button with an interesting offer and catch a blocking virus, a window appears on your entire monitor screen, and you cannot do anything with it, it completely covers most of the screen. You will be asked to send an SMS to a number in exchange for a code to disable this window, for which money will be withheld from your phone number and you most likely will not receive the code. Therefore, you have no choice, you will have to reinstall windows, so use antivirus programs, they will warn you about an unreliable site.
13. Fraud at money exchangers
On the Internet you may need electronic money, those payment systems on which you do not have electronic money, this is due to the fact that payment systems usually do not cooperate with each other and in order to receive money you will have to use exchangers, and this carries certain risks . The fact is that you first transfer money to the payment system account specified to you in order to receive money from another system, so use trusted exchangers.
14. Method of cheating on the Internet on mobile devices
The number of mobile Internet users is growing every day. Therefore, while exploring the mobile Internet, you can go to an Internet resource where you like, some application that you want to download and, as usual, the application will request access to functions on the phone, almost all applications ask for such a request to work. Therefore, worry about this with your mobile operator in advance, disable the automatic SMS function, I lost, like, 1000 rubles due to this type of fraud.
15. Magic wallets
The essence of this scam comes down to the following. At one time, it was very common, you send some amount to the wallet number specified to you, and get back 2 times more. Perhaps you will be lucky once or twice, but you will be overwhelmed by greed, and you will send a good amount there, which is what the scammers are counting on and there will be silence in response, and perhaps you will not receive anything even with the first experimental payment. They don't joke with money.
16. Freelancers and web designers, working on the Internet without cheating
Deception of remote workers has a large number of options, advice for freelancers to act through specialized exchanges, although there are also competitions on them for higher-paying work, so don’t really buy into various competitions, perhaps this is a scam.
17. Transfer the insurance premium
You have found a job for yourself on the Internet, this work is well paid and not labor intensive, for example, collecting pens at home, we have a big competition for work, if you agree, transfer 10 rubles in the form of an insurance premium for your agreement to work, your 10 rubles will be returned to you as soon as the staff is approved, what I can say about this type of fraud is that it is as old as mammoth bones, the entire business has been automated for a long time and is tens of times cheaper than human hands.
18. You have become the thousandth visitor to our website
You can come across such an ad when you go to another web resource, you are asked to fill out a form, respond in order to receive your winnings, do not forget to indicate your cell phone number and confirm the copyright holder of the number, as soon as you do this, money will be debited from your number and you will find , this is immediately after sending the SMS.
19. Typing
You have found a job for yourself at home, you are asked to do typing, from scanned pages that will be sent to you by mail, after completing the work, employers may disappear, be careful not to become a slave to scammers.
20. SMS fraud
In general, it is very common on the Internet, so never send SMS to short numbers from your phone, everything is done the other way around, a code is sent to you, and you enter it on the site.
21. Deception on the Internet based on advertisements for lost documents
Not long ago I encountered this type of fraud: I lost my documents. And, as many of us do, I turned to local television, where I placed an advertisement that I was asking for the return of my documents for a fee. The response did not take long to arrive and I received a call from unknown people who told me that they had my documents and would return them for a fee. To do this, I need to send them the amount to their mobile bank or Webmoney and after that a girl will come up to me and solemnly hand me my documents. To which, of course, I told them that under no circumstances and that I would only give them the money during a personal meeting. The fact is that the ads in the ticker were duplicated on the local television website, which served as bait for scammers.
22.………………………………… this make money without cheating on the Internet maybe, 21 ways I don’t know or don’t remember, but maybe you know about it, write in the comments, new ways of cheating on the Internet and we will transfer it to our list. Like, leave comments, let this article spread and make life easier for naive people. But you and I can now begin.
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Veronica Kushnareva
Circumventing laws and finding flaws in the system is not just for scammers. Entrepreneurial people around the world, thanks to out-of-the-box thinking, find profit where it would seem there could be none. And such stories are not always just inventions of Hollywood screenwriters. In this article, we remembered 10 “life hackers” who played by the rules, but ended up winning big.
Against the bank using banking methods
Former law enforcement officer 42-year-old Dmitry Agarkov found fame around the world thanks to his joke on the Tinkoff bank. Credit systems". He scanned the contract sent to him by mail and made his own changes to it in small print, adding that the interest rate for using the loan and the commission for issuing cash is 0%. The bank signed this document simply because none of the employees bothered to re-read the agreement. After two years of Agarkov using a bank credit card, a lawsuit was filed against him, which the court refused to satisfy. Agarkov himself began to assert his rights through the courts, deciding to sue the credit institution for 24 million rubles, but after lengthy proceedings, both parties agreed to a settlement.
Free year of VIP service
Chinese Kwong Yif Yi Po was a client of the airport's VIP zone for a whole year, although he never flew anywhere. The airport service for business class clients offered a whole range of services, the cost of which was supposed to be already included in the ticket. Among them were first-class food, a bar, a relaxation area - and everything was completely free. Kwong Yif, having once bought a business class ticket on a China Eastern Airlines plane, postponed it every time, thus extending his “membership” in the VIP club of Yushu Xian Airport. He checked in every day to dine at the highest level, and then, rescheduling his flight to the next day, returned home safely. This was repeated every day for a whole year, until he was finally exposed: the fact is that his name was never on the list of passengers on board, and he rescheduled the flight about 300 times.
Hired labor of programmers from China
The security department of an American company once discovered that one of its employees was spending too much Internet traffic searching for videos, as well as on unrelated Internet browsing on Reddit and eBay. It turned out that the forty-year-old software specialist simply outsourced all his work to specialists from China. By the way, he spent only a fifth of his personal earnings on paying for the services of Shanghai workers, so he was also paid quite well for watching videos with cats and online shopping.
Bypassing anti-tobacco laws
in Minnesota
In 2007, the US state of Minnesota passed an anti-tobacco law that prohibited smoking in bars. In winter, none of the bar visitors wanted to go outside to smoke because of the severe frosts, so the smoking public stayed at home, and the owners of bars and restaurants lost profits. A rather unusual loophole in the legislation was found. According to the law, you are exempt from liability for smoking in the wrong place if you are an actor and play a role that involves smoking cigarettes and tobacco. Since the law did not specify whether this applied only to professional performers or amateurs, the owners of the local Barnacle bar began organizing evening theatrical performances, where all the staff and patrons became actors. The format of such “actor’s” parties has gone far beyond the state to the delight of American tobacco lovers and to spite the guardians of the law.
On vacation at the expense of the pudding manufacturer
Teenagers who profited from strawberry lovers
Two young guys from New Jersey placed an ad in the New York Post selling a set of 10 top XXX movies for just $49.95. Usually a set of 10 cassettes cost at least $100, and the offer seemed very profitable for fans of the genre. The main condition of the transaction was payment by money order or check by mail - cash and bank cards were not accepted. There were a lot of buyers. Enterprising guys opened a bank account where they transferred funds from the received checks. They gave their company, for which the account was opened, the loud name CHILD PORNOGRAPHY VIDEOS INCORPORATED. After this, the teenagers sent a return letter saying that due to the large number of applicants, they were unable to satisfy all orders. The apology in the letter was accompanied by a check for $49.95 from the company CHILD PORNOGRAPHY VIDEOS INCORPORATED, but no one was in a hurry to cash it, so as not to arouse suspicion. Although all checks and invoices were completely legal, clients did not fight for their rights due to ethical reasons.
Breach in CitiBank credit card system
CitiBank has a credit card that allows you to get 5% cash back on your phone bill with Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone and others. Telecom service verification is carried out on the basis of Merchant Category Codes, and delivery of finances and determination of their status is carried out by MasterCard and Visa. Airtel has launched its e-wallet, which can be topped up using credit card, net banking and used for online shopping. Airtel and CitiBank have the same MCC (4-digit number that classifies the type of merchant activity in a bank card payment transaction), so a percentage of bank card transactions can be transferred to the telephone operator’s wallet, and then sent back to the card account. Many Americans managed to take advantage of this loophole.
Australian principality of 30 people
In the late 60s, Australian farmer Leonard Casley received a very large wheat harvest. Given the agricultural quotas imposed by the state, this could become a problem for him. The government had no intention of increasing the volume of legal grain sales and, on the contrary, threatened to take away the “extra” land. In despair at such injustice, Leonard attempted to secede from Australia and declare his land an independent country. Thus, five families from the Hutt River Province united into a principality with an independent currency, symbols and a ruler in the person of His Highness Prince Hutt Leonard I. Due to protracted proceedings, the Australian government was unable to prevent this separation process, since the appeal period had expired. Thus, in 1972 the province stopped paying taxes, and to this day 30 people live in the independent state (although about 14,000 passports have been issued). By the way, Casley's example inspired the creation of many micronations around the world.
Tax-Free Houseboats in Seattle
Many years ago, the mass relocation of residents of the American Seattle within the city dramatically changed its appearance. It all started with the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century, one of the particularly enterprising townspeople discovered that, according to the law, movable property, such as boats, rafts and other water transport, is not subject to tax, which means you can build a house on the water and not have to pay anything. pay the state for it. So, washed by the Pacific Gulf on one side and Lake Washington on the other, Seattle quickly became overgrown with houses on rafts and boats. These dwellings were built mainly by those who could not afford to buy land. Over time, floating houses filled the entire lake, which led to pollution of the reservoir's ecosystem and government intervention. The number of water buildings was limited, electricity was supplied to the houses, and the status of raft houses was equalized to ordinary buildings. From shelters for the poor, these houses turned into homes for especially wealthy citizens. Now floating houses are considered one of the city's attractions.
Plane tickets paid for by the US Mint
It is known that a $1 bill costs the United States more than a $1 coin, which can be in circulation much longer. In 2010, the Mint decided to increase the circulation of dollar coins by offering everyone the opportunity to buy them online using credit cards. Moreover, there were no restrictions on the number of purchased coins that anyone could order. Jane Liau Liau was one of the few who figured out how to make money on this according to the following scheme. She ordered large quantities of coins using a Cash Back card, which allows you to get a small percentage of the purchase amount back in the form of bonus miles from the airline. Then she received the coins with free delivery, took them to the bank for a deposit account, and paid off the credit balance. Thanks to a flaw in the system, Jane was able to save on tickets and fly for free on vacation. Other equally enterprising people took advantage of other bonuses offered by their bank Cash Back credit cards. The Mint has currently limited sales of coins that can be ordered by a single person within a certain period of time.
