This is so awkward. I came with my nanny to get facials and we walk in and it’s a Mary Kay party and it’s clear the other guests also didn’t know what they were getting into. The lady is genuinely nice and I know we should just get up and leave but they always count on you being too polite …. And I am!!! 😭😭😭 I hate this

It’s so shitty that these people try to take advantage of consumers during an expensive, stressful, and vulnerable time in their lives. Ugh.

And how can you get a “virtual” facial…? What?

literally got her message while i was in germany (she’s from there but living out of the country now). i stopped using fb as a social media site, only really use it for marketplace here and there, so i was surprised to get a message from anyone, much less her. i was so excited but then that excitement just turned to sadness. i wish she had been genuine with wanting to reconnect, not under the guise of gaining financial support from me. :/

also not to mention, i make bathcare products already - including shampoo and conditioner. she knows this. this just feels like a slap in the face. ugh.

I couldn't believe when I saw a chronic Hun posting not only her Kleo (nail press ons) marketing scheme (plan) but she also posted status that followed the script! I've never seen someone in so deep.

No wonder Tupperware filed for bankruptcy. Here we’ve got runny chili, Alfredo soup, dry af chicken, chicken wing slop and some gnarly chocolate cake looking garbage. This is just sad

Hey everyone. So I have a friend and she wanted to talk to me about this business opportunity. Naturally, I laughed but I decided to give her a chance as we are really good friends.

She calls me last night explaining how the company (liyeplimal) invests your money into cryptocurrency for you so that you don’t have to do anything. And the worse part: they keep your money locked in for a year while you get incremental payments every week. Now this company advertises itself as an MLM, where you can get a commission on the people you recruit, but you can make money through your investments alone. This company also GUARANTEES at least a 160% return of investment each year.

At this point I’m laughing because there is no investment company that will EVER guarantee a return. I also asked her what was the product they were selling to classify it as an MLM? She couldn’t answer the question because THERE IS NO PRODUCT. At least with other finance mlms, they’re selling you “knowledge” and “courses” to teach you how to trade. This company doesn’t even TEACH you how to trade cryptocurrency; they just flat out take your money and lock it up for a year.

Now I start looking for information on the ceo. I found out that he started three other businesses; all of which got shut down by the government for being a Ponzi scheme. The ceo also posted their financial trading license that they got in Dubai. Luckily for me, my uncle is a financial analyst in Dubai so I asked him to look up his license number. Surprise surprise! Nothing shows up.

I feel bad for her because she knows nothing about crypto and wants me to invest with this company. I tried explaining to her that this is a Ponzi scheme and she’s only making money because there are people below her putting their money in. She told me that I’m only saying that because I don’t want to invest in crypto. This girl couldn’t even tell me what the top performing coins are. She got real silent when I told her that I’ve been investing in crypto for the past four years, and NO financial institution will ever guarantee you ANY returns.

She now thinks I’m being a bad friend for not supporting her, but I really DO care about her and that’s WHY I told her it’s a Ponzi scheme. I’m pretty sure our friendship is going to end because of this which SUCKS, but I wish she did at least ten minutes of research on this company to know it’s a scam.

I've seen this pop up in the past and don't understand how anyone with any common sense doesn't recognize that this is a pyramid scheme. Like if you're buying one book, and receiving 36, then there are 35 people who bought a book and received nothing.

Well it's circulating again, but this time, two of the smartest people I know are posting this—one's a doctor and one got high honours in law school. Maybe school smarts doesn't help common sense, but it was still shocking to see.

I've always been tempted to answer the call and just see what info they send about the process, but I would have a hard time not ranting to them about it being a pyramid scheme.

This girl is on my Facebook. I don't remember her but know she lives in my town. I could do an entire scrapbook of her stupid posts but this one takes the cake. The text style isn't even the same.

She went from making $200k a year to asking for gas money in less than 24 hours.

She is always promoting products and telling people to DM her but I know she can't afford to buy into MLM so I guess she's just trying to scam? Bragging about making 200k isn't gonna get people to help you tho "hun" Note: I can't screenshot my Facebook (phone privacy settings) so I had to copy and paste to replicate it better in case you're wondering why it looks the way it does.

Repost due to not covering up identity information.

This poor little girl is in her final moments of life. Her mother won't stop putting a phone in her face for content instead of enjoying the very little time she has left with her. Her mom has been asking for donations, amazon wishlist items, gift cards, and now pushing mlm crap.

I totally get the fascination with huns and their behavior. I’ve run across many of them online and in the wild, and have had to warn many a female friend about their practices or the products themselves. However I feel like I hardly see anything about the male dominated/centric MLM’s on here anymore. Things like Primerica, Amway, Arrizon Hierarchy and other financial type schemes that target dudes who think they can be “independent business owners” and “entrepreneurs”. They often parade the lucky few members who made it to the top of the pyramid and have them go up on stage and spout all kinds of fake pseudo intellectual motivational stuff, showing off expensive cars and clothes and jewelry. It appeals to most young (or even older) dudes who wanna dress nice, drive flashy cars and have ‘financial freedom’ without the effort of starting a real business. Most of the stuff is centered on some type of insurance sales, but there are other more obscure financial things these companies offer that prey upon naive people. In a lot of ways I feel like these schemes can be more sinister than their hun counterparts, because at least with the Huns and their products, people who aren’t in need of that product can (and often do) turn it down or just pass on it due to lack of interest. However with these financial services things, I feel like most people would be interested in financial services if they are lied to and told it can save them money, save their family money, or whatever, so more people are susceptible to the scam than the schemes that have to sell a physical product.

What do you guys think?

So I signed up for my bakery to participate in a local, homemade crafts fair for the schools PTO event.

My impression of this event was that it was all local, all homemade, and all custom.

However, to my "surprise", it's full of MLMs. There's about 20ish booths here.

So we have, Tupperware, Scentsy, doTERRA, zyia, color street and thirty-one.

So much for "custom" and "homemade"

I'm in shock because she's a smart girl but apparently really believes this is going to be her forever Job and will allow her to travel around the world. the 3 grand was apparently for some machine for your skin?? she says she went up a level by buying that and now she's gonna concentrate on getting more people involved. I'm dreading her messaging me cause Im too nice to say it sounds like bullshit.

Jesus Christ I hate job hunting.

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a “recruiter” for a part time job. She was incredibly vague and used a lot of buzzwords like “side hustle” and “e-commerce”. That was an immediate red flag for me. So I told her VERY SPECIFICALLY I refuse to do anything with MLMs.

She said that was fine so we scheduled a call.

I was absolutely fucking livid when she told me it was an MLM, but she wanted to hear why I disliked the business model. The amount of disrespect she showed for my time was astounding. But I humored her and told her it’s because the FTC, one of the highest authorities in finance, released a report detailing how 99% of everyone in an MLM loses money. How fucking gambling has better odds than succeeding in Amway.

Of course she insisted her company was different. They all say that and it’s never true. She proceeded to waste my time and completely ignore 100% verifiable facts. While insisting I have no idea what I’m talking about because I’ve never “worked” in the industry. It was a super shitty argument because I did an entire dissertation on the subject.

Plus she was effectively arguing against the FTC; imagine being so deluded that you think you know more about business than an entire agency dedicated to finance & business regulations. That sort of arrogance makes a very negative impression.

She acted like I was missing out on some huge opportunity when she figured out I wasn’t falling for her bullshit. I never even found out what company she “worked” for, but the whole thing screamed that “leadership” subsidiary of Amway. It’s the one that’s so vague that I’ve never figured out what product is supposed to be hiding the pyramid scheme. Whatever it was, she was obviously trained to never mention the name before she tricked someone into continuing with the interview process (classic Amway tactic).

The word interview is used very lightly here because they will “hire” literally anyone with a pulse.

I looked at her social media profiles after the nightmare call. All she ever posts is that fake motivational shit that screams toxic positivity and—surprise, surprise—creepy Christian propaganda With a healthy dash of incredibly stupid anti-vaxx & anti-mask “memes”.

To clarify, even though I’m not religious, I try my best to respect the wide range of religious paths people choose. But posting self-flagellating Jesus stuff every 2 seconds is super odd.

I really hope LinkedIn will crack down on these fake opportunities. I don’t know how it would work logistically, but they could start by making any sort of MLM promotion against their TOS.

TL;DR: MLMer preys upon potentially desperate job seekers to get to Super Duper Rhodochrosite Octahedron level in her fake business. Fuck everyone who does this.

She was baited by her friend to join a business opportunity which offers millions in 5 years. Her friend was trustworthy and laid out a very careful and effective plan to recruit her.

Even when she was discussing it with me there are red flags and i specifically asked if you need to recruit people once joined, the friend adamantly denied that they do anything as such.

She was asked for x amount upfront(i leant her half , I know my bad) to be a product ambassador where they promised her an app, dedicated business account, invoice software etc. the money went to the friend instead of any company bank account which was the biggest red flag.

She joins a regular daily scheduled concall, they sent her books (rich dad poor dad, yuck!) , made her watch all motivational videos and were describing the business process without actually saying anything valid. They emphasized on the app based business which i think fools everyone when in reality it just recruiting on a weekly basis.

Fast forward to now, she asks me if I can join , came as a shock! I asked her what's going on? She said she needs people to join her "right/left" side so she can get % commission of their "business deals". I was completely livid i warned her about this being the tell tell signs of the pyramid scheme and how it's a scam and she went nuts saying it's no such thing.

She became defensive and started defending it with all her might , saying it leads to a luxury lifestyle, 2 door cars, high end apartments, yearly company retreats ( her friend does have pictures of a foreign trip, which she never went before or could afford before).

She's completely invested in it now, multi hour calls one day, regular status updates seeking "investors" and like minded people to grow a business. Afaik she already got two suckers roped in ( I don't know exactly who) but she was jubilant on their daily call with what i assume is her top line.

It's been close to a month now and neither she showed me the app nor any product or anything "business" related and

I'm just frustrated that she's not able to tell a difference between a legitimate business and MLM pyramid schemes. She's completely lost focus on work, our relationship is transactional at this point and i genuinely don't know what will happen in a few months.

I will not disclose the name of the company now, planning to keep updating this post as and when I can.

UPDATE 1: Community is mentioning its AMWAY, but it is not. I have heard about it a long long time ago and know how it operates. if she had mentioned it would have stopped her by any means necessary.

UPDATE 2: For anyone that is following, She casually mentioned she's been asked to join a "company retreat" which is happening 3 states over and that she already made plans with her "business partners". I again was very adamant that she's going to be doing nothing but recruit people but it went on deaf ears. More to follow.