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[flagged] Ask HN: How would I make 3 millions euros in two weeks
20 points by greatNespresso on July 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 30 comments
Let's get imaginative over here



Step 1. During a large pandemic use your political and media power to raise the issue of shortage of face masks in your country.

Step 2. Create a non-profit organization to help buying face masks from China. Use you political power to make sure you get a deposit from the government so that you have zero risk.

Step 2.b (the most important step). Create a private company linked to your non-profit organization with basically the same name.

Step 3. When other instances report that there are enough face masks and no extra buys are needed, start making a lot of fuss on social media and television that there are huge shortages and the government must buy your masks. Keep saying every time that your actions are with no financial intent and that you're doing all of this with your non-profit organization.

Step 4. Sell your face masks to the government through your private company instead of your non-profit organization.

Step 5. Cash in your 3 million euros. (actually 19 million euros)

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Fascinating. Thank you for that, Let's reproduce that success in France


Unfortunately, it only took me half a sentence to know what this was about...


Work for one of the mints manufacturing Euro coins or bank notes.

Then you could ‘make’ millions per week, you just wouldn’t own any of it…


Details matter indeed


3 Million is odly specific, you need get 1 € from about 1 Million people.

Set up a company and some basic Hompage, with impressum and contact information and complaint form. Your company sells heartwarming personalized messages. Set up banking form on the homepage for your services, to collect occasional personal data. Just send some heartwarming email, with a picture of a dog or flower or whatever.

Withdraw 1 € from around 60 Million personal accounts, for services from your company. Get this information from some other shady buisness, there are also some data bases online. Just shoot it over your form to be safe.

Create some aumtomatic responses to your complain email with some heartwarming messages, must include cute picture for legal reasons. When a customer writes a few times have an apology ready and send the euro back, but take a 5 cent transaktion fee. Be very polite.

Since it's only a euro and most people won't look at their banking details anyway, you target sum could be safe in two weeks.

You should be able to get at least 3 Million out of it, that you can use to stay out of jail as long as possible.

A group did this back in the day, but they couldn't get the money from the account. Since it belonged to an old couple, which was charged, but it all was dropped in the end.

They collected receeds from gas stations to get the info, this should be easier by now.

You can get this money back from the government, if you fill out a form and for a small working fee. Astonishingly, very little people reclaimed their money.


Send me 1 million and I will send you back 3 in two weeks. No bamboozle.


Sounds good, but that will only make him 2 million.


do it twice, duh


Buy a house for 100m euros and flip it for 103m euros as your fee. Have a buyer lined up so you need nothing upfront.


Steal 300,000 hot dogs. Sell them for $10 apiece.


Love it, this is definitely the way


Create a new shitcoin

Look for trading ideas in r/wsb

Flip a house quickly.

Buy lottery tickets

Buy my course for $59


Tell me more about that course


I was just joking :-)


So did I, unsuccessfully


I thought you might be, but just wanted to be sure I didn’t get anyone excited by my vapour MVP lifechanging course


You both made me smile, if not actually laugh.


If your in the UK then getting priority laned for ppe contracts for the govt is the easiest way


Buy a weekly option on a company it's going to announce a merger or predict any other many-sigma event with week/month-precision always using weekly options


What about horse races?

Edit: I just realized you need money to start gambling. Is OP asking about raising money without significant starting capital though?


Horse races are a thing for sure, funny you bring that out, a friend of mine actually owns shares of a trotter. He also posts pronostics on french races on horseturfpro.com


Start a cryptocurrency, mint 1,000,001 coins. Keep 1M coins, sell one coin to your buddy for €3. Boom, your crypto market cap is €3M.


Start with 6 million euros...


Give them to @yewenjie...


Loan someone a couple billion Euros at a reasonable interest rate.


1. Become a Twitch-Streamer, find your superrich sugar-daddy.

2. Start with Onlyfans, for Billionars.

3. Make your own Currency, call it Euro.

4. Make instagram-ads with "Send me 1 Dollar for happiness" and a cat-picture.

But realistically spoken, besides gambling and donations, there is no legal way to make this much money in such a short time. Any real business would take far longer to just start till it make actual money. And Illegal ways are, well, illegal and problematic on their own.


As someone else once said, easiest way to become a millionaire is to start as a billionaire and lose money...


if you already have a billion dollars just play roulette. the chances of winning 3 million are much higher than the chances of losing it all.


Package up dogshit, stick an American flag on the label and sell it as "American Style Dogshit". People all round the world will flock to buy it.




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