In the course of potential future-avoidance of any sort of future tedious grindstones known as "paid employment", the Poorhouse is gratefully experimenting with any sort of half-dodgy webdeal to raise a quick buck. A couple of days ago, one such plan came up trumps, and a swift 15 minutes of so of quite fun web-clicking raised £45.88. And - apologies for sounding like nothing more than a filthy spam-merchant - there was no risk involved, other than the ability to have some self restraint.

Here, for your delectation, is how to do it.

Sign up at Quidco, the referrer bonus site discussed in the previous entry. As mentioned there, clear your cookies or use a new browser without ad-blocking to be especially sure you will get your Quidco bonus. Then go via the Quidco link -and only the Quidco link - to CyberSlotz, an Internet gambling site owned by some big fruit machine company. When you get there, sign up for an account.

Now for the scary bit. Deposit £10 of your hard-earned money into you're the Cyberslotz account. "Why would I do this crazy thing!?" the Poorhouse hears you say. This is why:

1. you can retrieve it at any time
2. upon doing this, you will get £20 added to your Quidco referral account
3. Cyberslotz will add a bonus £5 to your Cyberslotz account as a reward for being a new user

Kerching. You're £25 richer.

But let's try get some big bucks and have fun at the same time. You can even keep your clothes on.

Remember Cyberslotz gave you a free £5 for your gambling account? Well, whilst you can reclaim the £10 you actually paid in, you can't reclaim that free £5 yet because they won't let you take their money without at least a semblance of risking it. Basically you need to gamble with that free £5 before you can extract it.

The worst that can happen here is that you will lose it all and end up with just your original £10 and the £20 Quidco bonus - hence trebling your money. The best that can happen is that you will double, treble, or billionify your free £5 and become a millionaire. The Poorhouse "skilfully" massaged the free £5 into a total of £25.88 and hence gained a nice overall Cyberslotz account balance of £35.88 to add to the £20 referral.

So go pick a slot-based (must be slot based) game - for example Ice King - and play away. Unless you actually want to risk your money, do not bet more than your free £5. Bear in mind that you don't have to get your account balance to £10 from £15, you just need to have risked £5 in the course of your gaming session.

That is to say you could bet 10p and win £5 giving you £19.90. Then bet £4.90 and lose, leaving you with £15. At this stage you still have £15 in your account, but all in all you have taken the chance of gambling with all of your free £5 so you may extract it all as pure hard cash.

Don't spend it all at once now (or get addicted to gambling).

(PS: Another Katty special)