Marketing Scam of the Year! Bomb Detector!

[shiftymcnab]

Jim McCormick: Businessman sold golf ball finders as bomb detectors in £50m global scam

Jim McCormick: Businessman sold golf ball finders as bomb detectors in £50m global scam - Mirror Online

 

[Vadym]

was found guilty at London's Old Bailey

Even court in the UK sounds charming.

 

[flaw3d]

That guy is fucking genius for pulling that shit off. An idiot for getting caught but that is another story. Great idea and execution.

 

[Reive]

So much egg on so many governments faces. Dowsing has never worked. Guess it took them a couple mil. to figure that out.

ADE 651 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tragedy is that this killed people..

 

[Vadym]

So much egg on so many governments faces. Dowsing has never worked. Guess it took them a couple mil. to figure that out.

ADE 651 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tragedy is that this killed people..

The Iraqi government is said to have spent £52m ($85m) on the devices

I don't know how many meme's can be made about Iraq, IEDs, and them not knowing how to detect with a naked eye.

 

[Deliguy]

That's pretty fuckin hilarious

 

[JoseArmando]

None of these fuckers that spent millions in government cash ever figured to test the device out before buying it?

 

[-joe-]

ADE 651 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Best name ever.

 

[jryan21]

Anyone remember these things?


The Detox Foot Pad Scam

 

[Sevenhelmets]

Anyone remember these things?


The Detox Foot Pad Scam

The defendants agreed to a judgment of $14.5 million, which represented the total revenues from the sale of the pads

Time to go out and "invent" a health device that is totally untested and has no scientific proof to back up its unsubstantiated claims....oh wait, isn't that what the drug companies do now anyway....? Lol

 

[contract]

inb4 99.8% was actually somehow connected to USA military budget spend..

 

[jryan21]

This one, they sold 2 mil at $350 each:

Consumer Reports calls air purifier 'unhealthy' - Health - Health care - More health news | NBC News

 

[CaviB]

Im currently building a bitcoin detector.