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This is the basis of well known - potentially hypothetical - scam. Send 2^n emails out, half stating that stock X will go up tomorrow, half stating the same stock will go down. The next day, split the addresses that received the correct prediction in half, and repeat.[1]

[1] http://ask.metafilter.com/216295/Is-this-famous-investment-s...



Derren Brown used this approach to convince people he had a system for predicting the winners of horse races: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5OWh7luL4




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