The Bank of England holds about 400,000 bars of gold.
It’s the second largest gold reserve in the world, after the New York Federal Reserve.
And though it’s worth over £100 billion, nobody has ever managed to break in and steal even one ounce.
Well, almost nobody.
Back in 1839, the Directors of the Bank started receiving anonymous letters.
The letters announced a man would meet them inside the vault at an hour of their choosing.
Finally, the Directors agreed to test out what was going on.
So, one night, they gathered inside the vault.
And waited.
And waited.
And then, at the appointed hour, they heard a noise.
It was coming from underneath their feet.
And the next thing they knew, a couple of the floorboards moved, and a man climbed out.
He was a sewerman who, during repair work, discovered that an old sewer drain led straight to the floor of the Bank of England gold vault.
It turned out the sewerman never stole anything — they counted all the bullion — though he sure could have.
So he was rewarded for his honesty with a gift of £800 — about £80,000 in today’s money.
I bring this curious story up because I’ve got a monumental announcement:
I’ve just published my guide to becoming a top-rated, $150/hr sales copywriter on Upwork.
This prestigious tome is like a sewer drain straight to the Upwork gold vault.
It contains the best insights I’ve gathered over the past 4 years freelancing on Upwork.
And while most of the book is not particularly glamorous (hence sewer drain), I certainly wish I’d had this guide when I was starting out. It would have helped me make a lot more gold shekels early on and save myself a lot of frustration and headache.
I’ll give an example of just one such story tomorrow.
For now, if you want to grab a copy of my Upwork guide, you can get it as a Kindle book on Amazon. Plus…
You don’t even need to reward me in any way for my sewerman honesty.
That’s because if you act in the next 36 hours or so (12 midnight PST on Wednesday), you can get this book for free. Here’s the link: