by KansaiVet on Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:55 am
and this little gem...]
"Yen envelope" con artistry
First what you need to do is go online, find Japan penpal websites, Japan chatrooms and really whatever you can do to communicate with Japanese people. Once finding a Japanese person and after a brief chat with them you tell them that you are "doing a project for school about Japan," and maybe drop little notes on some bullshit about you loving koi ponds, temples and gyoza (even though it's Chinese.) After this your person(s) will be interested and say that's great. At this time ask the person if they would be willing to help you out, they'll say, "yes" and after they do, tell them that you need to have some Japanese coins for your school project and say something like, "to show my classmates how beautiful Japan is, even their money is beautiful." or something cheesy like that. At this time tell them it'd be great if they could send you the following: (a) 1 yen coin, (a) 10 yen coin, (a) 100 yen coin, (a) 500yen coin, (a) 1,000yen bill, to you via snailmail (regular mail,) and they will mail you the money. All Japanese people have tons of money, atleast everyone can spare 16.00 dollars. Now this is the fun part.
There are about 125,570,000 people in Japan. If each of them sent you 1611yen that would be $2,022,932,700.00 dollars. $2,022,932,700.00 Is your potential, you have potential of getting that amount of money, but check it, the beautiful part is, say you just do this hustle all day, for a week and you end up with 100 people sending you 16.00, well genius that is 1,600.00 dollars! And any beggars like myself would do a lot of crazy shit for 1,600.00 dollars, five days of sitting on a computer practicing your Japanese? Count us all in.
You are in Japan for crying out loud!