LOTTO 100 Million jackpot? More like a get-rich quick scheme to me!

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What is a good scam? 





See, a good scam always gives you, the target, hope. Hope that you stand a big chance of landing your open palms into the cookie jar. They push the delicious cookies so close to your nose that you can feel the coarse dough rub all so gently on the tip of your nose. Then, before you can even smack your lips in delight, the cookie jar goes poof!!! Just like that it’s gone. Vanishes in a dense, white cloud of smoke.

A good scam makes you think you have control over your own fate. It is laughable that a person assumes that by choosing a bunch of numbers, this will increase their chances of winning. That is the pull of the game.  It sits you behind the steering wheel of the vehicle and sets you on a circular track where you end up right where you started.

In the gambling world, there is a saying that ‘the house always wins’. Imagine this hypothetical situation.

Ten million Kenyans (10 million) send money to the said number on their mobile networks. They each send 50 bob of their hard earned cash to purchase the lotto ticket buying into the get rich quick scheme.

Individually the 50 shillings does not seem like much. Why would it? Paying 50 shillings for the chance to win 100 Million shillings? Definitely not a big price to pay. However, the power of compounding shows us something different.

             50 X 10,000,000 = 500,000,000

500 Million shillings of hard earned cash falling into very few people’s hands.

Take this on a smaller scale.

Take 5 (Five) of your friends and tell each to contribute 50 shillings making a total of 250 shillings. Write down a sequence of 6 (six) numbers between 1 and 20. Whoever gets the six numbers right takes 100 and you keep the other 150.


Questions.

1. Do you think your friends would agree to those terms?

2. What happens to the money if they fail to get the numbers right?


Finally, offer to buy them each a packet of "Njugu Karanga" worth 10 bob and move on to the next group of friends.

Back to the 500 Million…

So 100 Million goes to the winner of the Lotto. (Well and deserved!!)

A generous 25 Million will be for other expenses not limited to taxes and logistics.

And finally 150 Million would go towards paying consolatory prizes.

That leaves 225 Million Kenyan shillings unaccounted for. One can only speculate into whose pockets this money goes.

Genius!! Absolutely bewildering!! I wish I thought of this earlier.

No product! No service! Just a bunch of people giving you money for the mere illusion that they can win the money back a millionth fold.

The odds themselves 1/10,000,000 or 0.0000001 (My God…What a mouthfull) tell a bleak tale for a hapless 9,999,999 Kenyans.

Good luck though. And may the odds forever be in your favor….

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Some say he’s half man half fish, others say he’s more of a seventy/thirty split. Either way he’s a fishy bastard. Google

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