Money-Making Machine

For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11).

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a farmer was duped into investing his life savings in a “money-making machine” which he was assured would turn out 100 cruzeiro (about $20) notes. Four slick salesmen demonstrated the machine, loaded with real notes, and convinced the farmer to hand over $45,000 for it. After failing to print himself a fortune, the farmer took it to police and pleaded with them to “make it work!”

Ancient Letters On Modern Paper

Many intelligent people possess amazingly credulous natures. Michael Charles, the famous 19th-century French mathematician and Sorbonne professor was trapped into buying a total of 27,340 letters for $30,000.

The letters were allegedly written by the resurrected Lazarus to Peter, Mary Magdalene to a Burgundian King, and a Gallic doctor to Jesus Christ. But the surprise is, the letters were all written in modern French and on contemporary paper!