Make loads of money quickly after spending very little.
hope this hasn't been posted before, but i'm not looking through nearly 50 pages of other 'tips'.
Can't even give credit for this, as I got told it by someone in the pub last night, and can't remember their name.

Buy a pack of those raffle ticket books, and start selling them to people for 2 quid a ticket. At 100 tickets, for 2 quid each you'll soon have a fair few quid.
Tell people that the prize is a pit bike/quad/sit on lawn mower/anything to shift the tickets.
Then on the prize draw date, simply pick a random ticket,that's your 'winner'. give that person their money back for buying it and apologise that the prize got stolen.
Done, quickly rush off to spend your 195 quid profit.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Wed 26 Mar 2008, 16:02, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

I've heard that
But there is one serious flaw that makes it one of the silliest scams around.

Why not just NOT draw it and let everyone think they lost. You'd be a lot happier to lose 2 quid than a big prize, no?

And don't say it makes it legal to do what you suggest, its just as illegal as not drawing it.
(Edktstsss, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 12:31, Reply)

Or...
Just run a cheap ass lottery. Quid in, sell 200 tickets. Prize of 25 quid. Actually have a winner, and everyone is happy. Unless you lose but it's only a quid. We used to run them at school.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 20:59, Reply)