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Mithridates VI
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.03.30 22:32:00 -
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It's a decent scam for a number of reasons:
- It's a fairly cheap buy-in making it both less of a risk for the individual and avoiding being restrictive to players with less money.
- A profit can be made while legitimacy is being established, both through taxing every ticket and being dishonest about the number of tickets sold. Without a means of ensuring transparency with ticket sales, The Lottery Man could easily say that ten tickets were sold and base the prize on that when, in reality, one hundred tickets have been sold.
- The Lottery Man alt is an easily burnable account once the lottery is popular enough that the prize pool is a tempting way out.
- The Lottery Man could very trivially create an alt to award the prize money to while maintaining the illusion of legitimacy.
- Even if those who understand New Eden don't buy in and warn against it, plenty of idiots will shrug and argue "it's only one match" and pay up. Their apparent lack of victimisation will legitimise future draws.
- The Lottery Man is risking nothing but time.
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Mithridates VI
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.04.02 23:27:00 -
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Laurent Cazaderon wrote:create bogus char, enter lottery corp. pay 2 tickets with the starting 500k.
Wait.
If scam. then meh. If legit, then maybe good surprise.
Risk ? nul.
Risk for the individual, low. Gain for Lottery Man if many have this same feeling, high.
He could even afford to give some cash to one of those who bought a ticket (much less than total takings). Next week, people invest a little more because he didn't rip them off the first time. Eventually, individuals are risking more and The Lottery Man one day decides not to give out the prize. What does he lose compared to what the players, collectively, are putting up? |
Mithridates VI
Circle of Huskarl
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.04.03 07:44:00 -
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ChribbaX wrote:How about using a secure 3rd party...
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Mithridates VI
DUST 411
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Posted - 2013.04.03 08:24:00 -
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Deadeyes Anterie wrote:He's not making anything so he can't afford 3rd party fees. 
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Mithridates VI
DUST 411
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Posted - 2013.04.14 11:00:00 -
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While I hate to give your thread greater visibility, it seems important to include this thread as important consumer info: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=68585&find=unread |
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