101 Unethical Hacks

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We all love a good life hack, but how far would you go to gain an advantage? Are you willing to break the law or do something that could be considered ethically wrong? Here’s 101 unethical hacks completely plagiarized from a Reddit Forum.

1. Struggling to write a CV or can’t get a particular job? Post fake job offerings on recruitment websites for that position you’re interested in and watch the CVs/resumes pour in, which you can then copy for your own advantage.
2. Buy it, use it, return it. The Walmart way.
3. Put clear skateboard grip tape over your license plates. Yes, people will be able to read it easily, but, cameras that flash (speed cameras) will only get a bright blur.
4. As long as you act like you belong there are few people who will question what you do. Wearing hi-vis provides entry to most events. Hold a clipboard and look stressed. Never underestimate how little people question the uniform.
5. Get a free drink at Starbucks by pretending your order was taken. Have your friend order a drink at Starbucks and pick up their drink and leave. After a few minutes, have the friend walk to the counter and say they never got their drink so they make another one.
6. Piracy is a great way to save money. Download movies, TV series, games etc from torrents instead of paying for them.
7. Marry someone rich (preferably dying) and pretend to love them.
8. You can go pretty much go anywhere in a hospital if you’re carrying delivery food and an invoice.
9. Have a large, “professional” looking camera. Get a bright vest that says “press” on it. Make an ID. Go to town. Almost free access anywhere.
10. At a crowded bar, and can’t get a seat? Go up to the hottest woman there, and hit on her. She’ll leave in disgust, and you can take her seat.
11. If you want to slack off at work, slack off but act annoyed/frustrated around your boss. This will give the impression you’re working hard. Hack courtesy of George Costanza (Seinfeld).
12. Change the contact information of the boys/girls you’re flirting with in your phone to girls /boys names to stop your boyfriend/girlfriend from getting jealous. To remember who is who, use the same initials.
13. Always steal the necessities and buy the luxuries and never at the same time. It makes you a much more sympathetic figure.
14. For extra carry-ons at no charge, go to the airport gift shop and ask for a gift bag. Put your extra luggage into it. Because it looks like you purchased it at the airport, the flight will let you bring it on free, even if it’s over your carry-on limit.
15. Get a burner phone and use yourself as a reference on job applications. Got gaps in your work history? Fill them in with fake freelance computer work or renovations.
16. If you find something that you want on Craigslist, make a similar posting on Craigslist for the same item but cheaper. This will keep others from buying what you want and will cause the actual seller to drop their price lower when you negotiate.
17. Eat free breakfast at a hotel (3 star or less). Take the elevator up to the first floor, then come down so you can exit the elevator and walk straight into breakfast.
18. The best public bathrooms in any city are in the expensive hotels. Also try department stores and posh shops. Try to hit a men’s bathroom in a Victoria’s Secret. It is incredibly clean and they also have pictures of women in lingerie on the walls.
19. Buy an eBook on amazon, turn it into an epub with “Calibre”, which creates another copy, then return the book (you have to strip DRM with a plugin).
20. If you swear on automated voice systems, it can get you a human.
21. Organic foods look a hell of a lot like regular foods at the self checkout.
22. When flyers for various restaurants come out, they often have buy 1 get 1 free coupons. Tell everyone in the workplace you are going to go to (insert restaurant name here) to pick up lunch. Take orders and money for said orders. Use 2 for 1 coupons. Pocket the difference.
23. If you work in the food industry and need a day off, say you have the runs. They legally can’t let you work.
24. If your boss asks you to do a shift on your day-off, just tell them that you’re drunk. They can’t legally allow you to come to work if you’re intoxicated.
25. Go to a hardware store and get paint mixed and then leave the mixed paint around the store. Since the paint was mixed and not sold, the store would have to drastically reduce the price of the paint. Come back a few days later and go to the discount bin and buy the same paint at a huge discount.
26. Have a few friends who’re pizza delivery guys. About 30 minutes before the store closes, call in an order for store pick up using a fake name and then never show up for the pizza. Most times, the manager would let your friend take home the unclaimed pizza so that it wouldn’t go to waste. Free pizza.
27. This is hard to pull off but it can be done. Be the last person on your plane and act all flustered like you almost missed your flight when you get to the airplane door. If there is a first class seat available just sit in it like you belong. It works sometimes, but, other times you get kicked out of first class and have a walk of shame down the coach aisle.
28. If you want to kill someone, invite them to come hunting with you. Tell them to wear camouflage instead of hunter’s orange. After shooting them, call for medical assistance immediately. Beg the EMTs to save them and curse yourself for causing such a terrible accident (negligent homicide).
29. Stage a fake coup so you can justify arresting/killing off political enemies.
30. Wear a Pizza delivery uniform to parties. If the cops show up, simply walk away. Props are recommended.
31. You can use the square metal part of your seat-belt buckle to open beers while you’re driving.
32. Sleep with someone married and you hold all the leverage.
33. Rent movies from Redbox with a pre-paid gift card and never return it.
34. Cocaine works better than a nap if you’re feeling tired.
35. Use the burner app to register fake accounts on things like Uber and Ola. Reap the invite bonus twice or if you also drive for them, get paid to drive yourself around.
36. Send a letter without stamps by writing the return address as the place you need the letter to go to. By returning to sender, it will go to your desired location.
37. Having trouble keeping yourself from “zoning out” while listening to someone? Open your dominant hand so that it’s flat and raise it like you are in a classroom and have a question. Now bring the hand down across the speaker’s face- still keeping the hand open and flat- with as much force as you can. This is like a factory reset button for conversations. You’re welcome.
38. Need new tires? Rent a car with the same size tires as yours and swap them out.
39. You can use someone else’s Costco card to buy stuff if they have a self checkout.
40. Trying to avoid a bar brawl? Strip naked — no one is going to want to fight a naked person.
41. You can use an empty Visa Rewards Bank Card to make in-flight purchases. The cards cannot be run while in flight so all transactions are completed once you land, so you can receive any item you want for free. There is no way to track the failed transaction because your information is not tied to the card.
42. In most stores, employees aren’t allowed to stop you from shoplifting on their own due to policy. The most they can do is call the police. Make of this what you will.
43. Want all the chores done around the house but don’t want to do them? Have kids.
44. Buy an amazon fire stick for 40 dollars. Download kodi onto your Android cell phone. Download apps to fire. Use apps to Fire to beam kodi to your firestick. (You need to allow unknown sources in the settings.) Launch kodi, navigate to add source in the settings. Type http://fusion.tvaddons.ag . Go to settings/addons and get the hub wizard. Go to Programs run the config and presto. You now have every TV show movie and everything else for the rest of forever and no cost to you.
45. Get free underwear or swim suits in a sporting goods store by putting them on under your clothes in the fitting room. They normally have unsupervised fitting rooms and no anti theft tags. (Same applies for socks).
46. Want the really fancy apples but don’t want to pay for them? Take off their stickers and get one cheap apple with a sticker. Place all the apples on the scale at the self-check out counter and scan the sticker on the cheap apple.
47. When you start a new job, tell them you have a pine allergy. When Christmas comes around and they start decorating, remind them and then work from home that month.
48. Use old student ID cards to get a discount at locations that offer it.
49. If you get pulled over driving, act deaf. Cops usually let you go with just a warning as it’s too much trouble to try and communicate.
50. Lying about your kid’s age at an amusement park or buffet will get you a cheaper price.
51. Buy a movie ticket, but plan out the theatre’s schedule so you can see multiple movies throughout the day, back-to-back.
52. Purchase expensive clothing and wear it to an event then return it the next day.
53. Read online subscription news for free by deleting the cookies in your web browser.
54. Use pennies instead of quarters in coin-slot laundry machines.
55. Take advantage of “hidden city ticketing” to get a cheaper plane ticket. Instead of buying a ticket for A:B, find a cheaper one for A:B:C and get off at B. Savings can be 30–50%.
56. By adding a random one-way third leg onto a round-trip flight, you can sometimes fool the airline into dropping the fuel charges that usually add $300–400 onto the ticket. It’s called a “fuel dump” by frequent flyers.
57. Steal magazine subscription details from any waiting room or lobby.
58. Free food from almost any fast food: go in and say they forgot an item or two from your bag. They always just give it to you.
59. Steal content from online forums and repurpose on Medium to make as much as $10!
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