# Need $100,000 fast. Any suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667 "2008-01-08T00:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/101 "2016-02-04T17:37:11Z")
A sure fire way to make that money is to start a chain letter. Just make sure to tell people they must send copies of the letter to ten other people and they must put a dollar in each envelope. Then rent ten mailbox addresses at ten different places and instruct your suckers to send the money to those addresses. I recommend you start with the moderators on this board. From what I can tell, most of them are vulnerable to hard luck stories. Except for Miller. He seems like a real hard ass and I’d stay away from him. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/102 "2016-02-04T20:17:00Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > It costs 30 thousand a year to keep a prisoner in jail. Call the police and tell them you were going to do a crime with a 5 year sentence. That would cost them 150m thou to keep you. Offer not to commit the crime for 100 k ,thereby saving them a quick 50 thou. How could they pass that up? And you thought [paying people to not commit crimes](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CRIME_STIPENDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-02-13-17-17) was a joke? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/104 "2016-03-14T06:06:43Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/105 "2016-03-14T07:01:22Z")
Judging by the references to Netscape, Excite and AltaVista the spam is even older than the OP… [QUOTE=wikipedia] Under AOL, Netscape’s browser development continued until December 2007, when AOL announced that the company would **stop supporting the Netscape browser as of early 2008.** [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=wikippedia] AltaVista was an early web search engine established in 1995. It was once one of the most popular search engines, but it lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! **in 2003, which retained the brand but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.** [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/106 "2016-03-14T08:18:01Z")
This is why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/107 "2016-03-14T08:25:00Z")
“How I can make $100,000 in two months without interfering with my day job?” Is a “Nice Thing”? I wonder how many times this one has been revived by chain letters and (other) pyramid schemes? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/108 "2016-03-14T08:29:09Z")
No, No - getting busted for posting schemes (especially bad and ridiculous ones) ruins a “nice thing”. Relatively speaking. As far as I can tell, this one (thread) has only been revived the once. The zombie stench was mild. I, myself, was interested in why the OP needed the money for the “people” in 2 months, but couldn’t do anything that involved actual work. But I’m nosy like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667.md?page=5)