Statistics Saturday: Dow Jones Companies And How Much I Think I Could Scam Them

Note: everyone has some scam that they will fall for. For the purpose of a fair guideline here, I am thinking of a basic scam. Something like if I were to send an invoice for (say) $17,250 “for services rendered as per contract”, whether the listed company would issue me a check rather than ask any questions.

Dow Jones Company	How Much I Think I Could Scam Them
3M	Very Likely
American Express	Dead Certainty
Amgen	Unlikely
Apple	Toss-up
Boeing	More Likely Than Not
Caterpillar	Likely
Chevron	Very Likely
Cisco	Not Likely
Coca-Cola	Toss-up
Disney	They Don’t Even Pay The People They Actually Contracted To Pay
Dow	More Likely Than Not
Goldman Sachs	Would Send $50,000 Just Because That’s An Easier Number To Write Out
Home Depot	Unlikely
Honeywell	Wait, they’re in the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Like, the thermostat people? Really? Did every other business turn Mr Jones down?
IBM	Absolutely
Intel	They would try to pay and somehow it would never go through
Johnson & Johnson	Not until I showed up at their headquarters in New Brunswick and asked why their offices there look more like a college campus than the actual Rutgers campus across the street does
JPMorgan Chase	Oh yes
McDonald’s	Oh no
Merck	Probably not
Microsoft	Would either get laughed at or get the check in ten minutes with an apology, hard to say, depends who opens the envelope
Nike	Nope
Proctor & Gamble	Wait, they’re still around? I thought they vanished when the soap operas went off the air?
Salesforce	This company is itself a hoax slipped into the Dow Jones, so of course they’d pay, out of respect for another player of the game
Travelers	More Likely Not
UnitedHealth	Probably Not
Verizon	Don’t Get Me Started On Verizon
Visa	Somewhat Likely
Walgreen Boots Alliance	I have to have copied that name wrong, that can’t be it
Walmart	Without Question