Legitimate sales representative jobs

‘Lottery scammer’ is now a de facto legitimate profession in Jamaica and other parts. People from all walks of life make their daily, weekly, monthly, yearly income from making scammer calls to unsuspecting individuals, primarily in the United States, in a bid to extract from them money in exchange for a fictitious lottery prize.

Moral issues aside lottery scamming is not much different from many other seemingly legitimate job positions out there. Lotto scammers operate on the regular 9 to 5. They report to offices, get the job done and receive a pay cheque, albeit with some amount of irregularity in their pay cycle. The more skilled ones make at least a hit a day while the less competent may only ‘eat a food’ once in a while.

In an age when the job market is becoming increasingly inadequate, there is a need to identify niche markets and exploit the opportunities they present. The Jamaican lottery scammers are innovators in their own right. They've recognized the profitability of scamming and have turned it into a modern-day profession.

Some may argue against lottery scamming, for the moral reasons I wish we’d ignore for just a second. Carefully examined, is the lottery scamming profession any different from many other professions? Take, let’s say, sales representatives. Sales reps follow up leads and attempt to sell their products to unsuspecting customers, to whom they promise much greater benefits than the product or service actually offers. They are a class of ‘persuasionists’ that are able to convince a homeless man that he needs to install a security system – never mind there is nowhere to install it. Sales reps often don’t deliver what they promise and customers are, more often than not, left utterly unsatisfied. Lottery scammers are cut from a similar cloth. They convince otherwise sensible (and sometimes not so stable) persons to invest a small quantity of money into the mere possibility of getting a huge cheque in the mail (those devils!).

Yes, moralists, your shouts of disapprobation are audible! However, don’t run before the horse, examine the issue carefully and weigh all angles. What of the thousands of government-paid employees who scam taxpayers everyday by making a show of doing a honest day’s work for a honest day’s pay? Many scammers work much harder than that set. What of the car insurance company that promised you a red umbrella of protection only to leave you out in the rain when you attempted to access your benefits? What of the health and life insurance providers who scam millions of dollars from thousands of people every day without giving their customers anything in return? What of your spouse who promised you a garden of roses but only provided thorns in the desert? What of the million ways that scammers scam under the guise of legitimate professions.

Given the choice between one of those hypocritical professions and lottery scamming, I’ll choose the former any day – I’m no fool and moreover I won’t look cute in prison garb!