That scam is an old one going back at the least to newspapers in the early 1900s. Specifically, sports prediction services did it in classified ads (and continu

That scam is an old one going back at the least to newspapers in the early 1900s. Specifically, sports prediction services did it in classified ads (and continue to do so in some places). I think most con-artist scams haven't really changed, just adopted new mediums and new technologies.