Professional Cheaters in a Small Village
If things are coming toward you easily it means there is something wrong at the bottom.
The background of the story is that the government of Pakistan released a 2-rupee coin it somehow resembles gold. There was a rumor that goldsmiths used this coin with gold as some impurities to make pieces of jewelry.
By the way, it is an almost ten-year-old story based on truth. I am an eyewitness to this coin controversy at that time. There were several rumors about the coin since it was released. As the day passed, rumors got momentum too.
Rumors were around the country not bounded by any specific area. This is the actual background that you should know before digging into the story. It will make it easy to understand the story.
The story starts here:
The gang of four people arrived in the village. They came out of the vehicle and went to one of the shops in the village. They asked the shopkeeper if you had 2 rupee coins. If you had 2 rupee coins, I would take it equal to 20 rupees. It simply means 2 rupee coins equal 20 rupees.
The shopkeeper got shocked, the shopkeeper called his relatives and friends and tried to collect the coins as much as possible. Whatever coins he could collect, handed over to them at an exchange rate of 20 rupees. They took coins and moved to another shop.
That news about the coin exchange rate caught fire in the village. It was the talk of the town at that moment. They started to collect the coins one after another from shops. All the coins that were there were taken by them. When villagers asked what would you do with the coins? The gang pretended that we have some works to do it.
They let the people know if you people did not have coins right now no problem at all, and they would come back again here after 10 days. Try to collect the coin as much as possible. We would take coins at an exchange rate of 100 rupees.
The people of the village had been crazy about coins. They started to call their relative to the cities, to the next village, and so on. Somehow hawkers, beggars, and quacks moved toward that village. Intentionally, they had coins.
The villagers started to take coins from hawkers, beggars and quacks at an exchange rate of 50 rupees. They thought those guys would come and take it at an exchange rate of 100 rupees. Yet, we would be in profit.
Villagers were asking for coins from everyone. Whenever villagers came across new people they asked for coins. Most of the people in the village stocked a huge number of coins and started to wait for those guys.
Mostly, they took the coins at an exchange rate of 50 rupees. As you know the official rate of coins is 2 rupees. The villagers waited and waited and they have been waiting till today but the gang of four never came to that village again.
Takeaway:
Later on, it came to knowledge that they were professional cheaters. They took the 2-rupees coins at an exchange rate of 20 rupees. They took a commitment to the villagers that they would take more coins at an exchange rate of 100 rupees next week.
Cleverly, they pumped the coins toward that village through hawkers, beggars, and quacks. The villagers were taking coins rapidly at an exchange rate of 50 rupees. They had earned whatever they invested in that village.
Apart from the cheating, what a trick they applied there. Isn’t it mind-boggling?
One of my principle about life is that if things are coming toward you easily it means there is something wrong at the bottom.
