[Updated] That viral 2014 Cubs World Series tweet seems too good to be true

Gio's tweet predicting the World Series' Wednesday night finale went viral.

Gio's tweet about the 2014 Cubs World Series is too good to be true.

Prediction scams are easy to pull off. Andy Baio predicted that Gio's tweet was a hoax two years ago. The internet makes this scam easier than ever.

The owner of the @RaysFanGio Twitter account could have made a lot of sports predictions on his little-watched account.

In June, Twitter gave us the ability to retweet ourselves. If Gio is running a prediction scam, he should delete all his old incorrect Twitter predictions and retweet the old successful one.

Gio's correct prediction about the World Series went viral and landed him Twitter fame. He didn't wait until the end of the series to unleash his prediction.

Confidence scam artists use a prediction scam to trick people into paying for their false predictions. The scam works in the same way as a pyramid scheme. The people at the bottom of the pyramid are the ones who pay for the correct predictions, not the people who start from the beginning. It is a scam that works like a Pyramid Scheme. In this case, the money comes from new targets, and not from actual product sales. This is the opposite of a traditional Pyramid Scam.

Derren Brown has fooled his own target in a horse-racing prediction scam. Psychics are also a common target of prediction scams. People want to believe the psychic's predictions and they tend to exert selective memory. The viral 2014 Cubs World Series tweet seems too good to be true.

The viral 2014 Cubs World Series tweet has been taken as a prank. However, the prediction is based on years of observation. Back to the Future II and Parks and Recreation came closest to predicting a Cubs win.

The viral 2014 Cubs World Series tweet seems too good to be true. One high school student made the 2016 Cubs victory his yearbook quote in 1993.