I know everyone says you can't give cash right now but this morning (17 DEC 2013) a random player gave me $114,000,000 for no reason. I messaged him and thanked him and asked how he did it but he did not respond. so I don't know how its done but I know you can. Anyone know how to do it other than splitting job money?
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Every time I go to Quick Menu > Inventory > Cash > Give Cash it says that I'm unable to give someone else cash.  I know you can only give $5000 each day, but I can't give anything.  Does anyone know why this is?
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My sister and I would like to give another relative $25,000 as a gift.  We have a joint bank account together, and had planned on writing a single check from the joint account for the full amount.  We consider the gift as being half from each of us, so $12,500 per person, safely under the annual gift allowance.  However, since the full amount is over the annual gift allowance and I'd be the only one signing the check, would the IRS consider this more as a single gift from me, which would be over the annual gift allowance?  It would be much less convenient to send two checks, one from each of us, but if it's the only way to avoid having to fill out the gift tax form with my taxes, that's what we would wind up doing.
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I have learned so much from SE sites and I am really thankful for it. I sometimes feel that I am under debt from SO, so in order to satisfy me and my principles, I think I should give some donation.  I want to contribute but I don't have much technical expertise to use in helping others, so maybe if I can give a donation, this would help me to feel better.  I have been a member of various other forums and I have always given some amount (not much, though) to them as thanks.
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I've been curious about something for a few days now, but I couldn't find out the reason elsewhere.   Reading through, for example, the Square terms and conditions (), they state      ... you will not (a) ... (b) provide yourself a cash advance from your   credit card ...   But what is the reason they don't allow this to happen via their services? Note, I am definitely not asking if using Square, or other services, to do this sort of thing should be something I should be doing, but what's in it for Square to refuse this type of transaction? Wouldn't they get a piece of the transaction like any other and profit from this? Or is there pressure or deals with the credit card companies they accept, stating that they will do their best to refuse this behavior?
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I run a Minecraft server and there is a donation button so players can help support the costs. I pay out of pocket for the rest, it's $125/mo.  The money they donate goes right to paypal which is where the automatic payment to the server happens, so it works out nice as it will just pull the remaining amount from my account.  Do I need to claim the donations as income? Can I somehow write off the server costs? Etc.
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This raises a bunch of red flags (also confirmed by googling the email address it came from), but I don't quite understand how this scam is actually supposed to work. So, here it goes:   I put up an ad (for a guitar, 90€) on LeBonCoin (the French equivalent of Craigslist). Someone contacts me by text message (anonymous with no actual phone number), saying they want to continue by email. I then get an email, with roughly the following content (rough translation):     OK, I will buy it, but I need to send you cash by "express DHL letter". The DHL driver will pick up the item when he gives you the cash. I need the following information: full name, postal address, price of the item, and your phone number.    I'm guessing that this works by them requesting some "delivery fee" in advance, but does anyone know how this actually works?
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I was contacted by someone who claims he is in the military stationed overseas. He said he could transfer fund from his account to mine. Just wondering if this is true. I am not interested in transfering funds.
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A stranger told me that he will give me an allowance of $ weekly. I know the saying "If it sounds too good to be true, then it is".   He told me that he would  email me his check and I would be able to deposit it via mobile banking. The only information he needs is my email, name on bank account, and bank name.   Is this too much information? Do you think this is a scam? I would definitely know if it was a scam if he asked for my log in but that is not what he wants.  Thank you for your time and answers!
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I was asked this question today in an interview and am still not sure of the answer. The question is as follows.   Part one:  Say I have flipped 100 coins already and they are hidden to you. Now I reveal these coins one by one and you are to guess if it is heads or tails before I reveal the coin. If you get it correct, you get $\$1$. If you get it incorrect, you get $\$0$. I will allow you to ask me one yes or no question about the sequence for free. What will it be to maximize your profit?  My approach for this part of the problem was to ask if there were more heads than tails. If they say yes, I will just guess all heads otherwise I just guess all tails. I know the expected value for this should be greater than 50 but is it possible to calculate the exact value for this? If so, how would you do it?   Part two: Same scenario as before but now I will charge for a question. I will allow you to ask me any amount of yes or no questions as I go through this process for $\$1$. What is your strategy to maximize your profit?  I was not sure about the answer to this part of the question. Would the best option be to guess randomly? I think the expected value of this should be 50. I am not sure about the expected value of part one but if it is greater than 51, I think I could also use that approach. Anyone have a good idea for this part?
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I recently read this article about a day trader that lost $100,000:     Please explain this, because I can not understand how this "trader" lost so much money.  He says he sold 8400 shares at 2 dollars... that's $16,800 USD; how could he be in debt to E-Trade for $100,000 USD?  Did he buy this 8400 shares with just his money, or in margin account (50%/50%) from the Etrade money?
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This is to settle a current dispute with our game. Here's the scenario: Someone rolled the dice and landed on Community Chest, passing GO in the process. They picked up the card and it read 'Pay 10 pound or Take a Chance'. They took a Chance, and the Chance card said 'Go back 3 spaces.' They landed on Mayfair, passing back over the GO square to get there. They argued that they should still receive 200 pound because they already passed GO, and you receive the money when passing it NOT at the end of your turn.  I believe that this is correct and you should get the money as you pass GO rather than at the end of your turn (therefore removing the money you got by passing if you went backwards and landed on a square before GO). I've looked in the rules and I think you get the money as you pass, rather than after the consequences of your turn.  What's the official stance on this?
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Seems shady. Here is what has happened so far:  Job offer in newspaper: personal assistant, 10-15 hours per week, $500 per week.  I took the job. Didn't have to fill out any W-2 forms or anything.  Gave them my name, email, and mailing address.  Received a check for ~$1900. Had a note to keep $250 of it, and send the rest to another person via Walmart. I did that.   Now I'm thinking this seems very weird and I'll probably let him know I don't feel comfortable with this and just bail out. What does this look like to you guys?
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I'm using the auto-mining script from one of the meta posts here and it doesn't works!  At first I got steady returns but the returns seem to diminish over time. Using Fiddler I confirmed that the server seems to release less and less coins.  This is unacceptable! I am a loyal customer paying nothing and I demand that my auto-mining script continues to yield returns forever!  If you cannot deliver on that please refund what I have payed for using this site.  Plz advise!    In case you didn't notice: This is a parody of over-demanding, leeching askers on Stack Overflow.
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Recently I've been coming across many on-line resources that propose people to pay them in order to to get seemingly gigantic profits. This is what the 'About us' page of such sites normally says:  Extremely-Successfull-Corporation is a new dynamically developing investment project which helps you earn (loads of!) money quickly and easily! Our team manages the funds that you provide us with and invests them in stocks, real estate and lots of other stuff. We are 185.67% professional traders and guarantee that each your investment will result in 125% profit for you! The only thing you have to do is deposit money and wait for the revenue for 24 hours. Join us today and start earning money right away!  They also provide a lot of links to various social networks where people praise that investment company and even post photos of (quite a lot of) money they say they've earned only thanks to it. How this works Basically, they say that you kinda lend them money, they use it in investment and then return that amount multiplied by 1.2. I got curious about this thing and decided to try it out, although I was (and I am) pretty sure that this is  scam. So, I've chosen a random site out of tens of similar sites that provided such 'service'. This is what I had to do to invest into... what?  Creating an account is easy: you supply an e-mail and create a username and a password. It looks like the e-mail is never used after that. I had to create a Qiwi wallet and deposit some money to it as it was the only way to deposit money to the account. After that the site told me to provide it with the number of my wallet and transfer the amount of money I'd like to put onto my account to another Qiwi wallet and supply my username as a comment to the payment. After that I had to put the transaction code into a field on the site to verify the payment. The payment was completed successfully, and I pressed the Deposit button to deposit 100Something. The site immediately accepted it and started the 24 hour countdown constantly showing that after that 120Something will be on my balance. Right now I must wait for 24 hours to see my money lost the revenue.  My concerns The problem is, I don't understand, how such sites work. Is that scam or not? Some of my friends told me that they've actually received the revenue after they deposited a bit of money to similar sites, and I don't have any evidence not to trust them. If such sites really 'work', then how and why? Why would anyone trust them so much to give them money for absolutely no reason? Okay, I'm not so clever, but they can't make profit only because of stupid people, can they? Why there seem to be so many people in different social networks who claim the site has helped them to earn money? If this was scam, the creators of the site would have to pay them so these people wrote their advertisements posts, to my mind: nobody would like to advertise someone's business for free, right? Then, how do the site's owners make profit? Anyway, who will give you 120$ after you gave them only 100$? The question Could someone please explain: are such sites scam or they could be not scam? Update Surprisingly enough, I was able to receive 1.2 times my deposit and transfer it to my Qiwi wallet. What I learned from the answers, Wikipedia and Google is that such schemes allow the 'clients' (actually, victims) to win probably several times and then suddenly disappear with all the investments. So now I'm planning to run away from that site as fast as I can, but another question has arisen: is there any way to determine that today or tomorrow the scammers will disappear with the money? Can there be any signs (except inability to withdraw the money, of course)?
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This girl that I'm friends with and have actually seen in person before, keeps posting [on social media] that she "loves when the transfer goes through" and gets $2000-$6000 for free quite often. She said you can make up to $6500 a day. She is not very smart and barely spells correctly. She keeps saying that all she is doing is "transfers" and that's it. So many of my friends are feeding into this crap. So I asked her what it is. She basically said "it's legit" and asked me for my bank username and password so she could see how much money to deposit into my account. I said no way and left it at that. She also said she is not stealing or doing anything illegal. She is getting her friends free money and I think they're naive. What is she actually doing? Is it illegal? I am sure she is incapable of doing crazy money wiring to different countries.   Thank you everyone for answering my question. I am not stupid, I did not give her my information. I knew she was up to something illegal, so thank you for giving me some input on what exactly she is doing. I submitted an anonymous tip to my local sheriff's department. I'm hoping they see it and pursue it, or forward it to the right authorities I.e the FBI or something.
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If I understand cash back programs correctly, the Credit Card companies give you back a percentage of the money you spent on a purchase. 1% would give you back $1 on a $100 purchase.  If this is the case why can't two people (or more) just buy and sell to each other the same product back and forth to earn cash back?
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I have some friends who work at a company which offers 50% 401k matching up to some amount, but they don't take advantage of it because they want to use the money for non-retirement purposes. Ignoring the problems with not saving for retirement, it seems like they're leaving money on the table. Can't they just contribute to their 401k up to the matching limit, then immediately withdraw it? I know there's a 10% early withdrawal penalty, but as long as the match is more than 11.1&#773;%, it seems like it would always be worth it.  Is there any reason this won't work, like limits to how soon you can withdraw from an 401k, or how you withdraw from it?  I know that you have to pay income tax on the money you withdraw, but you'd have to pay it either way so I don't think it's relevant.