Showing posts with label Scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scams. Show all posts

The Con Academy

 After hearing about the great success of the Khan Academy, I thought of this brilliant thing - The Con Academy.

It will be the ultimate con job.

It will promise to get you into an IIT, or IIM, or on the Moon if you prefer. Why, even the Sun, for that matter. 

The only exception- it won't find you a match.. we don't want to eat into the business of Dating Apps, as a policy.

All you have to do to achieve your dream is to deposit some money into a numbered account in Switzerland. Once the deposit is confirmed, you will receive detailed instruction on what you have to do to get there.

We will have tie-ups with NASA, Elon Musk for space Odesseys. And tie ups with Maths teachers and ex-IIM faculty (like the Founders) for cracking the JEE/CAT. But they will only offer Q and A on Zoom, after you have studied for 72 hours a week, for 72 weeks.. by the, we hope the Swiss bank account will swell like the Ganges or Bramhaputra in spate, and we will be at some corner of the globe that's difficult to reach.. and gyarah mulkon ki police will not be able to trace us.. nor will the Jamtara scammers.

How's that for a business idea?


Media Scams

In the good old days, there were some scoops- Dharam-Hema, Amitabh-Rekha, and other varieties, splashed across Stardust. Now there are scams- Harshad Mehta (stock-market scam), Lalit Modi-Shashi Tharoor-investors, blah, blah blah (IPL scam), Nirav Modi scam, Fodder scam, Abdul Karim Telgi (stamp paper scam),  Nityananda (the holy smoke scam), Ram-Rahim, Asaram, and a few other Babas in a jam...

What our scam-thirsty public can endure, or even cherish, we don't yet know. The boundaries of common decency and privacy have already been breached, and the paparazzi rule our lives- sometimes, a la episode Diana, causing deaths too.

Scams can get boring too, but then you have the IPL (not the scam, the game), FIFA (not being anywhere on the world map doesn't stop us from watching those who are), the child bride shows, the dance beta dance (or some similar titled one). The nice comedy serials are somehow missing after Kapil went into a depression, and any serials with an intelligent story are even more missing. The GOT is the only GoTo serial, it seems..


Mispronounced Words

 Growing up, a lot of words were mispronounced, by us and those around us. These included a few English words- Daver or Diver for Driver Tat...

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