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cecdwarfer
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16 Jul 2011, 7:56 pm

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Croiss ... 10601.html

Did anyone see this article on Yahoo? I'm wondering if this is maybe someone conning a journalist with a bogus story just to see if they bother to check the numbers as the figures in this article don't seem to add up. According to this story a man in Taiwan kept paying sums of 99 dollars for some croissants after being told by scamsters that the transaction hadn't gone through, it was only after having done 7 of such transfers that he realised he had paid 12 million dollars for some croissants that he never received. However 99 X 7 obviously does not equal 12 million so this story doesn't seem to add up. Have I misread this or is this a trick to show up journalists who don't check their numbers? What do you guys think?



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16 Jul 2011, 8:01 pm

The story seems like crap. People in the comments have picked up on it too.



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16 Jul 2011, 10:56 pm

am bad at math but even I know that 99x7 is not 1 million unless he charged a hell of a fee for the "failed" transmissions...which could be possible, but I doubt a man with 1 million dollars to spend is going to fall for that one. Urban legend with bad math


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17 Jul 2011, 2:22 am

cecdwarfer wrote:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Croissant-scam-costs-man-258-yahoofinanceuk-3175110601.html

Did anyone see this article on Yahoo? I'm wondering if this is maybe someone conning a journalist with a bogus story just to see if they bother to check the numbers as the figures in this article don't seem to add up. According to this story a man in Taiwan kept paying sums of 99 dollars for some croissants after being told by scamsters that the transaction hadn't gone through, it was only after having done 7 of such transfers that he realised he had paid 12 million dollars for some croissants that he never received. However 99 X 7 obviously does not equal 12 million so this story doesn't seem to add up. Have I misread this or is this a trick to show up journalists who don't check their numbers? What do you guys think?


The more pressing question is, how do stupid people become CEO's?



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17 Jul 2011, 4:28 am

Chronos wrote:
cecdwarfer wrote:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Croissant-scam-costs-man-258-yahoofinanceuk-3175110601.html

Did anyone see this article on Yahoo? I'm wondering if this is maybe someone conning a journalist with a bogus story just to see if they bother to check the numbers as the figures in this article don't seem to add up. According to this story a man in Taiwan kept paying sums of 99 dollars for some croissants after being told by scamsters that the transaction hadn't gone through, it was only after having done 7 of such transfers that he realised he had paid 12 million dollars for some croissants that he never received. However 99 X 7 obviously does not equal 12 million so this story doesn't seem to add up. Have I misread this or is this a trick to show up journalists who don't check their numbers? What do you guys think?


The more pressing question is, how do stupid people become CEO's?


Well it is not an imposiblity but very unlikely
However, if he was born to an elite family...and was given the buisness to be CEO then it is possible....but unless they wanted the busness to implode or were stupid from upper class inbreeding themselves


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