Yup, $6. So why would this be a story? How could we ramp it up to make it clickbaitish?
Let's first change the currency, exchange the $6 to naira, but then forget about it and leave the sum in dollars.
The new title becomes:
A man has stolen $10,000 from his girlfriend — now this is title worthy.
Let's add the man has also won, from 10k naira to 100 million, so let's again forget about the currency and make it 100 MILLION USD! And spice it up with the girlfriend suing him!
New title:
Man steals $10k from girlfriend, wins $100 million, girlfriend sues him!Since it's all made up, let's not care about where it happened
it's either Nigeria in 2021 or
Uganda in 2025But since it's a fake story anyhow, let's spice it up
let's add a picture from 2019 about a guy that
won a parlay with his own money and little drama whatsoever.
So, what did the story turn out to be, much like a Radio Yerevan joke:
Q: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?
A: In principle yes, but it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov; he is not from Moscow but from Odessa;
It was not a car, but a bicycle; he didn't win it — it was stolen from him.
Moral of the story?
Stop believing every post on Twitter or Facebook. Ignoring the fact that every bitcoiner should live by the principle of "don't trust, verify," these are gambling stories, and you could trust a gambler about this as much as a fisherman and his stories about the 20-meter 100 tons carp he just failed to catch.
This is quite the story you've spun! It definitely highlights how easily circumstances can be exaggerated for clicks.
$6 to $10k? That's a huge leap. And turning a gambling win from local currency into a mind-blowing $100 million? Sounds like a plot from a cheesy movie. The way you casually throw in the lawsuit and the drama makes it even more sensational. But let's be real, it raises big red flags.
I totally agree with your moral, by the way. Trusting every crazy story without a bit of skepticism is a mistake. Gambling tales are often wrapped in half-truths or outright lies. I once heard a wild story of a friend winning big but, turns out, it was all about the hype and not reality at all.