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….