My recent encounters with MLM pyramid scams: WAKEUPNOW, VISALUS, 5LINX and LIMU

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

dude the shyt ain't no genius skim. when i was a freshman in college some dude tried to pull me in to primerica. i didn't know anything about it at the time but when i went for the "interview" the shyt was plain as day what the fukk was up. any thinking person would ask themselves a few simple questions which should raise some red flags 1) if you're selling a product making so much money why would you want to pull in all these other people to sell the same shyt as you basically cutting your own throat. 2) if there is all this money to be made why is it so easy to get in (not hire experience people) and why you putting on random strangers and not friends and family.

1. the product is life insurance breh...life insurance...and occasionally IRAs....home/auto insurance...maybe prepaid legal....big scams right there .....its a 100% commissioned based business...you recruit people (like he was trying to do with you) and then you override them (like every other insurance co in the world does)...so the more people you recruit the bigger your team is...the more you can sale....

2. its not easy to get in...once you sign up...you have to get licensed...which takes another month atleast...you cant sale life insurance without being licensed in your state...same goes for IRAs...you have to being series 6 licensed....yea you show it to your friends and family...but like some of you...they may not be interested...

oh and the people you recruit dont pay you...youre paid from the companies that primerica markets for....

the problem is the majority of you dont know what youre talking about......thats pretty typical for around here so im not surprised

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the fukked up part is that we have enough people in this thread alone to run a successful scam, I just don't have the heart to do it.

if only I was born with a white heart.​

I've joked but seriously brain-stormed book ideas for "black atheist turns to god" type of shyt to start a church.

I would EAT off you fools

 

[god shamgod]

that gif mad suspect hell nah

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The guy I mentioned in the original post is having a fight party tonight, if he starts talking about that Wakeupnow bs I'm going to expose all that shyt.

which of course he will...

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

exactly!! This is a dead on giveaway. No great paying job will be that easy to get into. The place i went into was eager af to get new people, like it didnt make sense. Great jobs are hard to get and here you've got these guys saying they've got members making 20-40k/month and this job is this easy to get?

my brainwashed friend replied with "its good that theyre like that, theyre creating job opportunities for people"

breh its not a job...and the reason they are eager to get new people is because the more people you have...the more income you can make...so somebody making 20-40k /month...wouldnt they wanna make 50-60k?

 

[Matt504]

which of course he will...

"I know y'all came for the fight, but since I really REALLY fukk with y'all I want to let y'all in on a once in a lifetime offer"



"I knew this nikka was gon do this shyt"

 

[#1 pick]

The crazy thing is all you have to do is go to google and type in the name of these scams and google will automatically bring up scams

U gotta be real basic to fall for this stuff

People wanna be rich without having to work for it

Ppl really just want a opp to be rich. Most don't see it possible when there are options and skills that can be learned.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

this is a tv show in canada and a stupid MLM company got denied funding

WOW

the investors even said "i love marketing schemes" but they just can't even capitalize on that shyt cause they lack products

 

[Type Username Here]

I had to cut off 2 old friends because of this scamming shyt. Both primerica cult members who haven't done shyt except annoy people to join.

One duped me into meeting him and his slave master to push that nonsense to me.

 

[69 others]

this shyt is like a plague. i bought a dress pants at burlington and they had a taylor there too so i went to him to get the pants hemmed. dude couldn't do it the same day so he took my number to call me when he was done and give me his business card. his business card had like 6 different businesses on it but in my mind i still the brother for being on his grind. later that afternoon i got a call from an unknown number and when i said hello some dude was like "manwhatthefukk do you know how much chemicals and other impurities are in your water" so i'm like who is this and dude was like it's the taylor from burlignton and he wanted to tell me about this great water filtration system which i can also sell . i kinda felt sorry for dude so i basically told him i boil my water and put it in the fridge and i can't afford any of that right now and i don't have the time to sell anything.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I hate when people push these in churches... the naïve really think it's "someone trying to genuinely put me onto something that will benefit my life".... When I was younger my wife was really into church, she was one of the youth mentors and whatnot.. The youth director's husband was into some MLM and thought that I was one of them "anything the church people say must be good" type of dudes, so when he was pushing this MLM.. I'd constantly question him on it, which he wasn't used to... I'm fairly smart, and not easily swayed once my mind is made up. He got heated and went and told my wife behind my back something along the lines of "He's not the kind of man you want to deal with, he's scared of success... he'll pollute your spirit"... and some other madness.. I told my wife I had no choice but to put hands on him because he crossed several lines. Long story short... I never put hands to the dude, he ended up ditching the scheme some months later and tried to apologize through a 3rd party as I'd basically left the church at this point. It's sad to see people get preyed on like this... it's always the people with no plan for themselves who got sucked into these things..

it works in churches because of the prosperity gospel meme in the first place.

 

[Stealth]

breh its not a job...and the reason they are eager to get new people is because the more people you have...the more income you can make...so somebody making 20-40k /month...wouldnt they wanna make 50-60k?

you think i dont know this?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

EVERYONE should watch this Penn and Teller episode on MLMs

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[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

you think i dont know this?

what you typed proved otherwise....[DOUBLEPOST=1397350543][/DOUBLEPOST]

I had to cut off 2 old friends because of this scamming shyt. Both primerica cult members who haven't done shyt except annoy people to join.

One duped me into meeting him and his slave master to push that nonsense to me.

whats the scam? enlighten us....

 

[Ayatollah Watts]

these people usually have jobs they aren't happy with... which is cool... because their are some people who have no job/career.. but I'm willing to bet if they put the same amount of enthusiasm and effort into the job they don't like... the financial return will be better.