War is the path of deception. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
One day a friend called me asking me to help me win a competition. She kept fighting for first place in the beauty contest, but it didn’t work out. The competitor was always ahead.
The conditions of the competition were as follows: you had to upload your photo to the group’s album and ask your friends to comment on this photo in order of rotation, adding numbers, for example: 1, 2, 3, etc. The competitor was always ahead of her. At the same time, the photo of the competitor was simply terrible and was taken on an antediluvian phone. In the competition she played dirty, easily skipped several numbers and generally behaved provocatively. And she had three times fewer friends. How did she win? Intelligence in the person of my friend found out that she has a sister and she is engaged in Avon cosmetics and she has more than a thousand friends. So my friend fought with an entire army.
I agreed to help, although I still didn’t know how. The first thing he did was tell her to stop competing, as it was a pointless activity. It is stupid to fight head-on if the forces are not equal. At that time she was number two. He told her to rest and take a break for now. And he went off to think. The first idea was simple and banal, buy a couple of thousand leftist accounts in bulk on the Internet and use them to overwhelm the enemy. A quick search on the Internet and tapping on ICQ did not give any results. It turned out that VKontakte introduced registration by phone number and now it’s not so easy to get accounts.
Well, let's move on to plan B. If we can't win by force, we'll take it by cunning. I ran through the stores and found where the cheapest SIM cards were; they turned out to be Megafon SIM cards. Only 60 rub. And all the money is in the account, which is a plus. The manager immediately asked the girl: can I take many SIM cards at once? Answered: of course! Ordered 20pcs. The girl wasn't even surprised. Out of curiosity, I asked: i.e. Is it okay that I take so many SIM cards? But the girl replied that everything is fine, it happens, she says they come from the village and take on all the relatives at once. Well, OK. The hardest thing for me, a computer geek, was signing contracts for all these SIM cards, in duplicate. Papers, brrr!..
When I got home, I started registering Vontakte accounts for these SIM cards. Been busy all day. No automation for such a quantity is not rational. To quickly replace SIM cards, I used a modem, it’s easy to change them there. By evening everything was ready. My super squad of 20 zombie fighters. Everyone was trained, trained and waited for their team in ambush (they were added to the group and waited in the wings). The plan was simple. The friend again begins to compete with her competitor, trying to keep up with her and in the very last minutes, when there is very little left before the end of the competition, quickly vote with my zombie fighters and snatch victory at the finish line. But my plan was not destined to come true.
About an hour before the end of the competition, we began to act. A friend pestered her friends and asked them to join the group and put down their number. I was at another computer, waiting for my moment. We were quickly catching up with our competitor. At that time we were 30 votes behind her. But surprisingly, she did not react in any way to our activity. Moreover, it turned out that it was not even online. She was so confident of her victory that she didn’t even bother to show up for the end of the competition! By the end of the hour, my friend had already collected the required number of votes and even got ahead of her. But we added my zombies anyway. My super-duper elite squad, which was supposed to cause chaos and panic in the ranks of the enemy, turned into just a bunch of thugs slaughtering sleeping soldiers under the cover of darkness.
A few days later, the victory in the competition was confirmed. Somewhere in the comments they wrote about my zombies that they were fakes. Yes, it was quite unreasonable to take the first photos that came up from the search. But the winners are not judged, right?
By the way, the competitor posted a joyful message on the wall that she took second place in the competition. Accepted defeat with dignity. It is commendable.
Well, what am I? I went to the official salon and blocked all SIM cards, and transferred the money from them to my number. And the wolves are fed and the sheep are safe and the shepherd has eternal memory.
Source: www.habr.com