This is a very simple quick start guide to scamming. Emforus has done a very detailed guide if you want to know more (link at bottom).
To scam, you need an email list, you then send emails to the list, you then interact with any loser stupid enough to reply and try and get cash out of them.
Email List
The email list appears to be a permanent asset. There are a couple of ways of getting emails:
1 - Spend 8 nerve, you get 80 to 200 each time with sometimes a critical success and get 600. You must have cash in your wallet for a crit success, so keep 20k on you (most i have seen it cost is $3k). There is an education that will give the y=the chance of earning extra too.
2 - education, there are two computer science courses that give you the ability to passively earn email addresses.
Sending email campaign
You can spend 8 nerve sending a campaign. You can launch each campaign twice before you get diminished returns (red arrow). Once launched, go and do something else. Come back after work or in the morning and you should have a bunch of replies to work with. The number of replies will be based on the size of your email list.
Replying to losers
There are 5 options to reply. 4 faces and a $$. We will call them A B C D and $$.
A - moves the arrow forward a good amount
B - moves the arrow forward a small amount
C - moves the arrow backwards a small amount
D - boosts your next move a large amount (i.e. D followed by A gives you a BIG jump forward) - this can be stacked for even bigger jumps.
$$ - end move, attempts to get money
Ignore any descriptions the game gives these actions, just use the ones above and it's easy.
Your aim is to get the arrow to land on the dark green and then hit the $$. If you land on the red you lose. You can hit the $$ on any green area, the darker the bigger the rewards and CS gain. if you land on purple, you get stuck and have to keep spending three nerve to get unstuck.
There are parts of the bars with horizontal arrows on, if you land on this you will slide forward or back in the direction of the horizontal arrow.
There is a psychology course that will indicate roughly where your arrow will move to.
If you take too many turns the bar will change and you will get more and more red areas. This stops you spamming forward and backward for CS gain.
Once you have opened an email you have three days to complete.
Strategy
If you aren't trying to power through, then get the edu courses and wait for your email list to have build up. 10-20k emails is currently recommended.
If you are powering through then get 10k email addresses and spend your nerve with the following priorities
1 - reply to emails and get cash
2 - keep all campaigns on red arrow
3 - add to list
I hope this helps, really not sure how much is correct, do let me know if there is more to add or change.
MrA.
Emforus guide with more details can be found here: Guide
