The Iraqi Dinar - the Gift that Keeps on Giving

The problem with all the scams collecting money on the Rapture (e.g., save your pets, email your friends services, etc.) is that, once the time of the Rapture has come and gone, those scam artists stop collecting money.

The beauty of the ever-imminent Iraqi Dinar Revaluation is that it goes on forever. In fact, the more "imminent" it is, the more easily newcomers get sucked into it. It goes like this: a friend introduces you to the impending and imminent revaluation of the Iraqi Dinar. After a quick bit of research, you see that it is "about to revalue", and you fear you might miss out on the windfall of a lifetime, so you rush to buy a bucket of Dinar before the day is out. You watch the moment-by-moment buzz of the online and unreal world of the imminent Iraqi Dinar RV for the next few days. Slowly, over the next few weeks you realize, this supposed RV, or "revaluation", is not going to happen.

You keep your Iraqi Dinar -- perhaps stuffed into a shoebox in a bottom drawer -- in the belief that, even with a one-in-two-hundred chance of an RV, the payback would be so huge, it's probably worth it to stay quiet, hold onto the Dinar, and get on with your life.

And still, the scammers just keep nudging the date of RV another few days out into the future. More fools arrive every day. More fools buy in. It's like that scene in The Time Machine where, to the sound of a siren, the Eloi slowly march into the cannibalistic clutches of the Morlocks. Just a few at a time is more than enough for the hungry Morlocks.

The Rapture Scammers should have taken a leaf out of the Iraqi Dinar Scammers' handbook: drum up a story where the Rapture is "coming soon, but we don't know exactly when".

Oh, while you're here, let me just look... did the Iraqi Dinar revalue today?.... let me just check... Ah. Nope.
Not today.
Who'd have guessed!
Must be tomorrow.
Or maybe the next day...
But it is going to be soon. Jesus told me so, and it is a blessing from God. Because I'm special.

Yeah, right.

The Iraqi Dinar. It's the Gift that Keeps on Giving.
To the folks selling Iraqi Dinars, that is.