Mail out 16 letters predicting the winner of a toss-up game. (An evenly matched game where no te am is favored by Vegas oddsmakers) Make 8 of them predict for team A and 8 of them choose team B.
After that game concludes, mail out 8 letters to the people who received the correct pick. Do it again with 4 and 4.
Repeat mail the 4 with a 2 and 2.
Once more with the 2 with a 1 and 1, and voila, you have someone that just witnessed you correctly predict 4 games in a row. Now you try to see what he will pay you to predict a 5th game.
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Someone started making accounts predicting the queen’s death, probably every possible day for months. Once one of those dates ‘hit,’ the grift went into action.
Yep this is exactly it. Private account, make a ton of "prediction posts" for every date of the year. When it happens, delete the "wrong" posts and keep the accurate one, unprivate, promote, gain all your followers on the day of.
Derren Brown did this in a TV show, he took 16 people to the races, with 16 film crews, shuttled between them giving the tips for betting. Eventually he had one winner with an unbroken win streak. He then revealed the method.
Very old grift.
Mail out 16 letters predicting the winner of a toss-up game. (An evenly matched game where no te am is favored by Vegas oddsmakers) Make 8 of them predict for team A and 8 of them choose team B.
After that game concludes, mail out 8 letters to the people who received the correct pick. Do it again with 4 and 4.
Repeat mail the 4 with a 2 and 2.
Once more with the 2 with a 1 and 1, and voila, you have someone that just witnessed you correctly predict 4 games in a row. Now you try to see what he will pay you to predict a 5th game.
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Someone started making accounts predicting the queen’s death, probably every possible day for months. Once one of those dates ‘hit,’ the grift went into action.
Yep this is exactly it. Private account, make a ton of "prediction posts" for every date of the year. When it happens, delete the "wrong" posts and keep the accurate one, unprivate, promote, gain all your followers on the day of.
Derren Brown did this in a TV show, he took 16 people to the races, with 16 film crews, shuttled between them giving the tips for betting. Eventually he had one winner with an unbroken win streak. He then revealed the method.