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A retired convenience store owner read a lottery brochure for 3 minutes and found a loophole the state missed. He and his wife made $26 MILLION and got a Hollywood film. – In 2003 Jerry Selbee walked into a corner store he used to own in Evart Michigan and picked up a brochure for a new lottery game called Winfall. – He read it standing up and in less than 3 minutes spotted something the state had missed entirely. – When nobody won the jackpot and it hit $5 MILLION the prize rolled down to lower tier winners dramatically boosting their payouts. – He did the math. If he spent $1,100 on tickets during a rolldown he would statistically guarantee an $800 profit every single time. – He bought $3,600 in tickets on his first try and made $2,700. – He bought $8,000 worth and nearly doubled it. – He still had not told his wife Marge – One night sitting by a campfire he finally told her. – She said nothing for a long moment. Then said she could see the numbers. – They formed a corporation called GS Investment Strategies and sold $500 shares to their six children friends and neighbours including three state troopers a factory plant manager and a bank vice president. – They drove 900 miles to Massachusetts every six weeks when a rolldown hit spending up to $720,000 on tickets in a single session. – They checked into a motel room and spent hours sorting through 360,000 tickets by hand. – In 2011 the Boston Globe investigated and found no wrongdoing. – The state made $120 million from the Selbees buying tickets. – An officer said "I was dumbfoundedly amazed that these math nerd geniuses had found a way legally to win a state lottery". – Their corporation grossed $26 million over 9 years with nearly $8 million in profit after taxes. – They kept 65 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn in case of a federal audit. – They never bought a hot tub a sports car or a timeshare. – Bryan Cranston played Jerry in the 2022 Hollywood film Jerry and Marge Go Large. – The original 60 Minutes interview is on YouTube right now. He found a loophole in a state lottery brochure in 3 minutes that the state missed for years. Made $26 MILLION legally and got a Hollywood film.
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A Norwegian student spent $26 on Bitcoin in 2009 and forgot the password. He cracked it 4 years later. His $26 was worth $886,000. – In 2009 Kristoffer Koch was a 22-year-old student in Norway writing his thesis on encryption and digital privacy. – He stumbled across Bitcoin while researching. Almost no one outside forums had heard of it. – He spent 150 Norwegian kroner about $26.60 and bought 5,000 Bitcoin at less than half a cent each. – Then he forgot about it entirely. – Four years passed. – In April 2013 Bitcoin was suddenly everywhere on the news. The price had exploded past $100. – He vaguely remembered buying some once. He could not find the password. – He spent weeks trying to crack it. – When he finally got in he stared at the screen for a long time. – His 5,000 Bitcoins were now worth $886,000. – He sold exactly one fifth of them 1,000 coins for around $177,000. – He used the money to buy an apartment in Toyen, one of Oslo's most sought-after neighbourhoods. – He kept the other 4,000 Bitcoin. – He told reporters: "It said I had 5,000 Bitcoin and I just thought oh wow." – He had written a university thesis on encryption. His reward for understanding it slightly earlier than everyone else was a free apartment. – The $26.60 he spent in 2009 would be worth over $450 million today. A Norwegian student forgot he owned Bitcoin. Cracked the password 4 years later, sold a fifth of it, and bought an apartment with the proceeds. He kept the rest.
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𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗘. – Europol raided an office in Latvia few weeks ago and what they found inside is hard to believe. – Latvia's counterterrorism unit OMEGA smashed through the doors with flashbang grenades. – Inside were 1,200 SIM box devices stacked floor to ceiling. 40,000 active SIM cards. Connected to 80 countries simultaneously. – They were running two websites, Gogetsms and Apisim where criminals could rent a phone number from any country on demand. – Those numbers were used for phishing, bank fraud, investment scams, extortion, and migrant smuggling. – 3,200 confirmed fraud cases in Austria and Latvia alone. – $5.8 MILLION in confirmed losses. – Police seized 4 luxury cars, $470,000 in frozen bank accounts, and $290,000 in crypto. – 7 people were running the entire operation. – The operation was called SIMCARTEL. – 49 MILLION fake accounts were created using their service. The same apps that make you jump through 6 verification steps just to log in. 49 million fake accounts got through while you were still waiting for your SMS code.
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In 2014 a 19-year-old MIT student raised $500,000 and gave every undergraduate on campus $100 in Bitcoin. Most of them spent it on sushi. That sushi cost them $44 million. — Jeremy Rubin was a sophomore studying computer science when he got into a legal battle with the New Jersey attorney general who called him a "hardcore hardened cyber criminal". — His crime was building a Bitcoin mining program that won an innovation award at a hackathon. — He was eventually cleared but what stuck with him was that even his friends at MIT had never heard of Bitcoin. — He raised $500,000 from alumni and Bitcoin enthusiasts and in October 2014 gave every undergraduate student at MIT $100 worth of Bitcoin about a third of a coin at $336 per $BTC. — 3,108 students signed up — The experiment became the first academic study on Bitcoin adoption ever conducted. — One in ten students cashed out within two weeks. — One in four had sold by 2017 — The ones who forgot about it entirely did the best. — The most common way students spent their Bitcoin was at a single sushi restaurant called Thelonious Monkfish. — The only place on campus accepting Bitcoin at the time. — One student estimated that half the people he knew spent their entire $100 on fish. — One student spent hers on two sushi dinners and forgot the rest existed. — In 2021 she found her wallet still sitting untouched. — Her $100 of Bitcoin was worth $13,000. — If every single student had done nothing the entire $500,000 experiment would be worth ove $110 million today — One student told reporters "Most of us thought it was a bit of a joke" The smartest students at the most prestigious engineering university on earth were given free Bitcoin in 2014 and spent it on sushi. The ones who forgot they had it became the winners. Sometimes the best investment strategy is just losing your password for a few years.
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A medical professor memorised the scratches on casino roulette wheels across Europe and won $1.2 MILLION Casinos banned him from entire countries trying to stop him. – Dr Richard Jarecki was a world renowned medical researcher at the University of Heidelberg in Germany – In his spare time he visited casinos across Europe and did something nobody had thought to do before – He noticed that casinos replaced their cards and dice every night but left the heavy expensive roulette wheels in service for decades – Over time those wheels developed tiny chips dents and scratches that caused certain numbers to come up more often than pure chance would allow – He recruited a team of eight people and sent them to casinos across Europe to silently record the results of thousands of spins sometimes 20,000 spins in a single month – When he found a biased wheel he moved in – In 1964 he borrowed £25,000 from a Swiss financier and turned it into £625,000 in six months – He bought a luxury apartment near the San Remo casino in Italy because its wheels were old and full of defects – One night he won $48,000. He came back eight months later and won $192,000 over a single weekend. – The casino banned him for 15 days – The night his ban expired he returned and won another $100,000 – The casino had to give him a promissory note because they did not have enough cash on hand – Casino managers called him "a menace to every casino in Europe" – They rearranged his favourite wheels to different spots every night to confuse him – He recognised every wheel by sight every nick crack scratch and discoloration and always found them – Countries across Europe tried to ban him entirely – He appealed every ban and kept winning – He eventually accumulated over $1.2 million worth over $9 million in today's money – Casinos finally stopped him by commissioning new wheels built to tighter tolerances with fewer defects – He retired to Manila and died there in 2018 aged 86 – The New York Times ran his obituary He did not cheat. He paid more attention than anyone else and remembered everything he saw.
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