I got caught up in a pyramid scheme ya'll | Update

[LV Koopa]

lmao @ that bullshyt setup. for seeing that trash a mile away

 

[Cynic]

A buddy convinced me to go to a home buyers seminar which taught you how to flip houses. So we sit through the 1 hour sales pitch in which the presenter used a bunch of buzz words and talked in very vauge terms on how to sell real estate which was all a giant pitch for you to sign up for a 3 day class which was only 2,000. This would also allow you to use their funding of up to 750k to purchase a home as well.

There were about 100 people there and about 20 people ended up signing up with another 10 people financing a grand and putting another grand. I left my buddy there who ended up trying to pawn his car because the deal was only good for that day.

Since going to the class I've gotten phone calls asking if i would like to attend and take advantage of the special they were offering for only 1000 and have gotten them as low as 500 but it's just a money sink scam.

Talked to my buddy who pawned his car off about the seminar and it was just another giant sales pitch to put down 20k and they had people pulling funds out of their 401ks and retirement plans.

Poor people forget that they are the sheep in this world that feed the wolves.

Yeah these guys are scum...if you ever encounter anyone in the US selling a real estate investment course
ask them what the PSHI is or what their risk factor score is .... 95% of these idiots (even realtors scarily enough)
don't know what it is.......

 

[KinksandCoils]

Ya'll know I been looking for a job recently, still nothing though. So about a week ago I got a text from one of my friends saying his friend recently got a spot open in his company and was looking for some hard workers to make some money part time.

So you know I'm desperate as fukk for money right now so text him back and tell him I'm available. So Sunday I get a call from dude telling me his "very successful" friend is on the line and he wants to speak to me. So we chop it up for a bit I tell him when can we meet and tells me that he, my friend and some other people are having a meeting Monday at 7:30 PM. At this point I'm like what the hell? I tell him cool but he tells me he can't promise me anything.

Ok so I haul ass all the way from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and reach the place. Here I am thinking it's gonna be a little job interview type meeting with about 4-5 people but I go in the building to the 6th floor and it's a whole fukking room full of people. About 40-50.

So I finally meet dude, and the first thing I noticed was how bad the nikka smelled.

Anyway he tells me that my homeboy forgot he had to go to work so he couldn't make it.

So dude tells me what am I specifically interested in doing, and I tell him I'm down to do anything for the summer just to make some cash but I'd prefer sales and customer service. So breh tells me grab a seat were gonna have a presentation and we'll talk after.

So I grab a seat and they bring out this former Red Sox player, Steve or Steven something I can't remember the dude's name and I looked on Wikipedia and I can't find him either so...

So dude goes on and on about making money and how people work for someone else the entire week and don't get to enjoy themselves. Dude says he didn't like playing baseball because he was on the field all the time and had no time to enjoy himself and basically saying that people live for the weekends.

So the shyt is sort of catching my interest and I'm thinking dude is some sort of entrepreneur and all that shyt.

Now dude starts playing a video of some company called Amway. It wasn't this video but it was close to it.



After the video is done I'm like and finally realize this is one of them pyramid schemes.

So at this point I'm just like at how I actually ended up in one of these. Some kid gets up and starts walking out and the speaker's like "Have a good night" When dude reaches the door he says "It's ok he has to go work for someone in the morning I don't."

At that point I'm not really fukking with the vibe in the room and I'm ready to leave. So we see a bunch of nikkas in the room that they're calling shyt like "Sapphire" "Emerald" "Gold" members. So automatically I remember a thread on the Coli where dudes were talking about pyramid schemes and mentioned "gold" and silver" members.

So presentation ends I'm sort of skeptical but I'm desperate for some money now. I tell dude I need some money so I'll do this shyt part time for the summer.

Dude hands me a sealed folder and a video of some dude who he said started doing this at 18 and retired at 25.

So anyway I set up an "appointment" with the nikka and this bytch at some Panera Bread restaurant at 8 PM on Wednesday. I'm not expecting it to go anywhere tbh but like I said I'm desperate to make money so I'm about willing to give it a shot. If I have to pay for anything though I'm chucking this nikka and my homeboy in the bushes.

I ended up at an amway meeting a few yrs back..

 

[Super Cheech]

I fell for that bullshyt one time with coffee...ended up with some good coffee tho

 

[Family Man]

a friend got caught up in this shyte a few years and tried to introduce me..he was introduced by his older brother who was introduced by another lady etc..tried to open his eyes but noone was stopping him from getting rich....just asked him about it now and he acting like he didnt lose much, nikka forgot he was telling me the more u invest the more money u make

Spoiler: receipt

Lol. At least ya boy can laugh about it.

 

[Nameischosen]

I lost a few close friendships through these scams. Don't know how people can look people they knew for years in their eyes and try to separate them from their money. My boy did the vacation scheme and I told him upfront don't ever come back to my house again trying to recruit me and my family. If you going to drink the kool-aid and push your scheme, go hard on strangers not your people. Last time I checked his I.G. it has him in every Caribbean island and is driving a leased silver BMW after getting his status up.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

wear a hidden cam, go to the meeting, troll the fukk outta dude, and post the video......got caught up in some shyt last year. I knew it was some sales shyt but then I got to the meeting. it was a one on one. dude was talkin about welcome to my office. shyt was empty room with stains on the wall and his "desk" was an old ass fold out table. dude was really runnin this bullshyt sales pitch to me. told me I need to pay 100 for a sales license first then I can make big money. I was like how bout this....you spot me the 100 and i'll pay you back double when I make my first sale. dude was like ok don't worry about the 100.....i'll get you a license cause I believe in you. so I bounce, then for days he's blowin up my phone and finally I answer and i'm like...."man you really believe in me right?.....that makes me feel good"....told him some serious shyt came up with my baby(don't have one) and would need to borrow 300. told him with all the money i'ma be makin that's chump change. told him I was gonna head down to his office and pick it up and he was like .....i'ma be busy all day, hit me tomorrow. so i'm blowin up his phone, leavin messages and shyt. never heard from him again. funny shyt is I seen him in walmart last month tryin to hit up new people. he acted like he didn't see me and got outta there quick. I so badly wanted to make a fool out of him but I was in a hurry. once you realize it's some bullshyt, just start trollin and see what you can get away with. already wasted your time, at least entertain yourself

 

[illadope]

DAWG! I got sucked into going to a meeting for ACN. They set it up real nice they were like were gonna take you to dinner and talk to you about some things. So Iwas like cool free meal, but I had a hunch once they picked me up so I ordered the cheapest thing (We went to Papadaeux) These two other people were with me too and they were living it up in the spot. When the waitress came the guy that dragged us up there was like "split the checks please" The couple that was with me was like lmao. Afterwards we goto the lame ass hotel and were in this meeting for 4 fukkin hours. I woulda left but I was stuck in Denver with no way to get home so I just fell asleep and woke up with a puddle of drool on my shirt. They tried to convince me on the way back to be down but I told them that paying $500 is retarded and why not just buy stock in XOOM energy (which is 22$ a share btw) opposed to being the middle man. They were all about "well residual income this and that" so I pretended to go back to sleep again. shyt was a mess.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I dropped a long time female friend over her setting me up for a meeting @ lunch for one of these.

Left the restaurant and never called her again

 

[Turbulent]

only way to make money off of this is to be the dude at the top.

 

[Turbulent]

wear a hidden cam, go to the meeting, troll the fukk outta dude, and post the video......got caught up in some shyt last year. I knew it was some sales shyt but then I got to the meeting. it was a one on one. dude was talkin about welcome to my office. shyt was empty room with stains on the wall and his "desk" was an old ass fold out table. dude was really runnin this bullshyt sales pitch to me. told me I need to pay 100 for a sales license first then I can make big money. I was like how bout this....you spot me the 100 and i'll pay you back double when I make my first sale. dude was like ok don't worry about the 100.....i'll get you a license cause I believe in you. so I bounce, then for days he's blowin up my phone and finally I answer and i'm like...."man you really believe in me right?.....that makes me feel good"....told him some serious shyt came up with my baby(don't have one) and would need to borrow 300. told him with all the money i'ma be makin that's chump change. told him I was gonna head down to his office and pick it up and he was like .....i'ma be busy all day, hit me tomorrow. so i'm blowin up his phone, leavin messages and shyt. never heard from him again. funny shyt is I seen him in walmart last month tryin to hit up new people. he acted like he didn't see me and got outta there quick. I so badly wanted to make a fool out of him but I was in a hurry. once you realize it's some bullshyt, just start trollin and see what you can get away with. already wasted your time, at least entertain yourself

i actually trolled a chick once trying to recruit me and ended up bagging

 

[Primetime21]

wear a hidden cam, go to the meeting, troll the fukk outta dude, and post the video......got caught up in some shyt last year. I knew it was some sales shyt but then I got to the meeting. it was a one on one. dude was talkin about welcome to my office. shyt was empty room with stains on the wall and his "desk" was an old ass fold out table. dude was really runnin this bullshyt sales pitch to me. told me I need to pay 100 for a sales license first then I can make big money. I was like how bout this....you spot me the 100 and i'll pay you back double when I make my first sale. dude was like ok don't worry about the 100.....i'll get you a license cause I believe in you. so I bounce, then for days he's blowin up my phone and finally I answer and i'm like...."man you really believe in me right?.....that makes me feel good"....told him some serious shyt came up with my baby(don't have one) and would need to borrow 300. told him with all the money i'ma be makin that's chump change. told him I was gonna head down to his office and pick it up and he was like .....i'ma be busy all day, hit me tomorrow. so i'm blowin up his phone, leavin messages and shyt. never heard from him again. funny shyt is I seen him in walmart last month tryin to hit up new people. he acted like he didn't see me and got outta there quick. I so badly wanted to make a fool out of him but I was in a hurry. once you realize it's some bullshyt, just start trollin and see what you can get away with. already wasted your time, at least entertain yourself

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

Wake Up Now! You Should Be Here! Its the only AMway!!!

 

[Illuminatos]

you spot me the 100 and i'll pay you back double when I make my first sale. dude was like ok don't worry about the 100.....i'll get you a license cause I believe in you. so I bounce, then for days he's blowin up my phone and finally I answer and i'm like...."man you really believe in me right?.....that makes me feel good"....told him some serious shyt came up with my baby(don't have one) and would need to borrow 300. told him with all the money i'ma be makin that's chump change. told him I was gonna head down to his office and pick it up and he was like

Bruhhhhh

 

[Couth]

One of my girls friends just got caught up in one of these.

Signed up for some affiliate shyt and they hit her account for 250.

i was making fun of her and she mutters some shyt like "well what else was i gonna spend that 250 on anyway, at least i didn't waste it"


People will convince themselves of anything to avoid the truth. Watch her put another 500 into promoting the product tryna get that 250 back.