Here’s a lesson in how easy it is to fool people, in just how much people want to believe in conspiracies.
Start by going to the FIFA Corruption Twitter account. Each of the five tweets was tweeted before the final match between Germany and Argentina. And each of the last four tweets came true (the jury is still out on the first tweet).
How did they do it? Read on.
It’s the old “stock picks” cold-call scam, too.
Mail out stock picks to 1000 people, half up, half down.
Mail out a new pick to the 500 who you guessed lucky on.
Repeat a few times and you have a pool of suckers who think you’re magic…
The Simpsons had a episode about this where Homer gets football predictions in the mail. Lisa explains the con there…