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Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Wednesday 18th October 2023

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Still playing a lot of UNO, and watching ads to earn more coins and hearts. Tia has long gone, but there seems to be a lot of ads for stuff like Solitaire Cash, games that promise that you can win and keep loads of actual money almost just for playing. There's a definite implication that winning money is pretty much guaranteed - enough to live on sometimes, or if you're in a shop and have forgotten your wallet, play solitaire cash for a few minutes then put your money into Paypal and you can pay for your items.
It claims you don't have to pay and sometimes that there are no ads and no limit on how much money you can take out.
It's clearly such bullshit that I don't know how they get away with the adverts. Where is the money coming from? If you can definitely earn $25000 a month on solitaire then why is anyone doing any actual work.
I'm not tempted to download the app to find out the truth. Because the truth is clearly that it must somehow cost you money to play (most games are free to play but have in app purchases) and that you aren't going to definitely (or possibly) win so much money. Maybe one guy can, but I wouldn't be surprised if that guy is the person who invented the app.
One add has this list attached, read out by a computer AI voice. It's so cheaply put together that there's a spelling mistake of rewards on the last line that gets read verbatim and also the figures read out are different than the ones on screen.
Also it can't even get two lines in without making an error that gives away the lie "I lost my job last week, but now I am making $25000 a month". If they only just lost their job, how do they know what their monthly winnings are? They might be speculating based on 7 days play, but that's a big speculation. They may have been playing for a month and solitaired at work, in which case it's not surprising that they lost their job.
The maths is all over the place. They earn $300 a day (which would make about $9000 a month, not $25000) They earned $5000 in half a month, again making their earlier claim of $25000 seem invented and also, again. they have implied they have only been playing a week. There's then a list suggesting you don't have to input any cash or ad watching to win and a further claim that you can get $100 an hour. So even with a casual 8 hour day that $800 a day and maybe up to $20,000 a day if you take solitaire as seriously as Margaret Thatcher took being a Prime Minister.
It's all over the fucking place. Like they thought that once they'd written part of the ad they couldn't go back and change the earlier stuff to make it consistent.
Are people so gullible that they will accept such a fantastical offer as truth, without even questioning how the company raise the money that they are giving away, seemingly to everyone?
Of course, enough will be, I guess, to make this work. Though it's horrible that this stuff is preying on the most vulnerable and needy to make the game creators (hopefully not very much) money.

I spend a lot of my day mindlessly playing games and have often thought there must be some way to make a game where the button clicking is actually admin for some task in a big business (enough games seem to be just taking on a job and then doing all the work of that job). So maybe that's how these companies fund the millions they must be giving away daily. At least make your ad consistent and hire a human to read it out so they don't say "reawrd" at the end.


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