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A con involving several people at once, often to epic levels. Say the kidnapper calls: he has your wife, and he's asking for $2,000,000 in small, unmarked bills, or else she comes home in pieces. It's the worst day of your life, but you have no idea how bad it's going to get. You tell your best friend what's happened and he, ever the pillar of support, tells you to just give the kidnapper the ransom; bringing in the police might set him off. So the two of you drive to the arranged meeting point. Your friend offers to carry the ransom inside the abandoned warehouse, but then - just after he steps through the door - a police car passes through the area, sirens wailing. Your cellphone rings - "they'll never take me alive!" - and then the warehouse, the kidnapper, your best friend, and the ran

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  • Massive Multiplayer Scam
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  • A con involving several people at once, often to epic levels. Say the kidnapper calls: he has your wife, and he's asking for $2,000,000 in small, unmarked bills, or else she comes home in pieces. It's the worst day of your life, but you have no idea how bad it's going to get. You tell your best friend what's happened and he, ever the pillar of support, tells you to just give the kidnapper the ransom; bringing in the police might set him off. So the two of you drive to the arranged meeting point. Your friend offers to carry the ransom inside the abandoned warehouse, but then - just after he steps through the door - a police car passes through the area, sirens wailing. Your cellphone rings - "they'll never take me alive!" - and then the warehouse, the kidnapper, your best friend, and the ran
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  • A con involving several people at once, often to epic levels. Say the kidnapper calls: he has your wife, and he's asking for $2,000,000 in small, unmarked bills, or else she comes home in pieces. It's the worst day of your life, but you have no idea how bad it's going to get. You tell your best friend what's happened and he, ever the pillar of support, tells you to just give the kidnapper the ransom; bringing in the police might set him off. So the two of you drive to the arranged meeting point. Your friend offers to carry the ransom inside the abandoned warehouse, but then - just after he steps through the door - a police car passes through the area, sirens wailing. Your cellphone rings - "they'll never take me alive!" - and then the warehouse, the kidnapper, your best friend, and the ransom money are all consumed in the biggest explosion you've ever seen. But losing your wife, your best friend and $2,000,000 isn't the worst of it. Six months later, after you've tried your hardest to forget the entire incident, you receive a letter in the mail. The only thing in the envelope is a photo of your wife, your best friend and a man in a police costume all enjoying themselves on a beach somewhere, with the briefcase containing the ransom money prominently displayed. The entire thing was a setup, down to the police car, and you fell for it hook, line and sinker. You have just been the victim of a Massive Multiplayer Scam. The Massive Multiplayer Scam is The Con taken to its logical extreme, engineering circumstances on a large scale in order to defraud the victim, enlist his unwitting cooperation in a larger scheme, teach him an important lesson, or simply make him suffer. These schemes are usually ridiculously complex, and often involve the cooperation of everyone who is not the intended victim. Compare Kansas City Shuffle. Not about massively-multiplayer online games that are scams; for that, see Allegedly Free Game. Examples (Warning, contains spoilers):
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