The plot thickens. One common string - endless, unaccounted money

Recently saw this news: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/pune-man-undergoes-full-medical-check-up-before-joining-date-ends-up-losing-rs-24-lakh-2461256-2023-11-10 In March 2023, a man received a call from someone claiming to be a recruitment executive for a global carmaker's India unit. They convinced him he was shortlisted for a senior position but asked for a fee of Rs 1,600 to register. The scammers kept asking for more money over five months, including Rs 28,000 for a uniform, Rs 80,000 for a check-up, and Rs 2.4 lakh as a salary advance. . However, after paying around Rs 24 lakh in around 40 transactions, the man realized that he had been cheated -- How and why people fall for these? Also how they make over 40 transactions? Also a lot more people have fallen for scams than I initially thought. It's only when you tell them a story about other scams they tell their story.

1. Real estate (invested value) 2. Liquid cash 3. Other Investments (invested value) The wealth should not be inherited. I'm 30. No house, 10L in cash and 5L in mutual funds. No inherited weath.

Last year the heir to Hermès shocked the world by deciding to adopt his 51 year old gardener to gift them his $11BN fortune. Puech is a fifth-generation descendant of Thierry Hermès, who founded the luxury fashion house in 1837. Today, the company is valued at $220 BILLION. All anyone knows about the mystery 51 yo gardener is that they come from a modest Moroccan family. Puech is breaking tradition of keeping wealth within his family and has already attracted hate within the family. But just last week as he was planning to make the transfer, the money seems to have vanished. Puech claims he has no idea. He’s accused his wealth manager, Eric Freymond of “gigantic fraud” in the disappearance of the $13 BILLION in Hermès shares that he was planning to leave his gardener. But the courts didn’t agree with him. They found that Puech willingly gave Freymond access to his bank accounts, and let him manage his money. And although it’s not certain where the money went, there’s one thing for sure. It’s not likely to go to his gardener anymore. But I can’t help but think “What if it did go to the gardener?”

I live in Bangalore with 2 other flatmates in a popular society in Bellandur. This one night my flatmate started doing some Nashe because his Hinge date stood him up at the restaurant. I was like whatever. Who even cares about this. I had to go on a date with this girl I had been seeing for a couple of weeks. We went to Ironhill Bangalore and had a great time. She said that she wanted to see my society. So we went there afterwards and one thing led to another and we ended up in my room. The next morning when I woke up I heard someone scream. It was my flatmate who saw my date leaving and he started crying saying that she was the one who stood him up. I took him to his room to calm down. Tab tak she left. Later that day he started drinking a lot because of this and blamed his qismat. I did not know that he was drinking and I only came to know later. That was a big mistake for me. I had to go on a trip the next day so I was busy packing. I asked him to get me 10,000 cash from ATM while I would go to get printouts of papers I needed in my village. He took my wallet and left. 2 hours later. He came back home and gave me the transaction receipt. Apparently, he kept the transaction receipt in his left pocket and ripped up Rs. 10,000 ke notes in full Nashe and threw them away thinking that it was the reciept. I slapped him so hard that day and asked him to vacate the flat. Made him sleep on the bloody footpath that night. AITA? What else could have I done?

In a country of 140 crore people, only 6.77 crore file taxes, out of which only 20 lakh people pay taxes with income over 20 lakh. The income tax data collected shows only 1.7 lakh people reporting income of more than Rs 1 crore in a year. Yet luxury brands like BMW, Jaguar, Audi, Mercedes, Porsche, and Maserati sell almost 35,000 cars every year. Also, 45 lakh people have incomes above Rs 10 lakh, but 25 lakh cars are bought every year. That only shows that tax evasion is soaring.

for me. i spent college studying for grades and 20s making money in a job I don't like, but never got to make the memories I should've with all my friends. I regret doing all of that

1. hiring very expensive law firms with kick back.  2. Buying the office space and then hiking the rent to the office around 5x and made money. 3. Fake invoices 4. hiring friends companies for consulting 5. setting up shell companies for hiring 6. Buying Forbes 30 under 30 slots with VC money Make this list more exhaustive. I want to say to these founders : bhai kisko chutiya bana rahe ho... And after all this, they have galls to become Gyan chodeswar on LinkedIn, podcasts etc.

Saw this question on a really old AskReddit thread, and it made for a very interesting read. Learnt that Lancome is exact the same products at Loreal but 20% more expensive. But most of the things were US related. Got me curious what the Indian version would look like. Looking to learn some industry secrets, TILs, and more :)