Yes, there are still people who fall for those fake lottery scams which claim that they’ve won the Nigerian lottery or something of the sort. You know the ones: “Congratulations, you’ve just won a trillion dollars. Now wire us a couple of thousand to cover the admin fees and we’ll mail you the money.” The giant search engine, Yahoo! got pretty sick of these scammers using their name to promote their so-called lotteries and decided to sue them in a court of law. As such, a federal judge awarded Yahoo! $610 million in damages, which has to be paid by these ‘John Doe’ scammers. Problem is that the bad guys are sitting tight in far off lands and there is practically zero chance that Yahoo! will ever see a cent of the money awarded to them by the court. As such, you can say that Yahoo! just won a fake lottery of its own!
On the subject of scammers:
George and Jack were having their weekly lunch when Jack he suggested a way to get a free lunch.
“You know what Jack, we’ve been coming here for so many years, this place must have made a fortune from us. Not only do we spend a lot of money, we bring in a lot of business!”
“You’re probably right George.”
“So how about, when the bill comes, you insist on paying it!”
“How does that get us a free lunch?”
“Well, then I will insist on paying it, we get into a big fight and eventually you say “That is it! If you don’t let me pay, I will never have lunch with you again.” The restaurant will be so scared of losing out business, they’ll have to give us the meal for free to shut us up!”
“I love it!”
So, at the end of the meal, the waiter comes over with the bill and places it on the table. Jack, will a big grin on his face, takes out his wallet and says;
“I’m paying for the lunch today, George!”
“Thanks Jack, that is very nice of you.”
