My recent encounters with MLM pyramid scams: WAKEUPNOW, VISALUS, 5LINX and LIMU
- Thread starter Stuntone
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I know they have 500$ and a 1000$ startup kit. What u hear?
I know someone who's doing it.
Funny thing is its a smart girl
She's talking like she actually believes it's legit. Product might be useful but it's crazy overpriced.
pearlhandle
Pro
I'm not gonna lie i do know someone who is actually making bank off that herbalife shyt. Actually both of them work at the airport. The one guy is always taking trips somewhere. Now we do fly free or if its ovrrsees its mad cheap but all the hotels and stuff he does adds up . You aint doing all that ish with no money. Hes a real fitness type guy so him being so in shape kinda sells it cause they got protein shakes. Everytime i turn around he has a new person under him as a "coach" shyt is genius actually. And him and his homies do boot camps so when ppl start to see progress theyre all 
and sign up.
and sign up.
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
Its a scam.
Somebody damn near got me but I had the drop on em.
Drop the story, at what moment did you realize they were about to get you?
i see that "you should be here" shyt everyday on my instagram feed. my wife's cousin's wife is into that shyt and so is my wife's friend. my little brother's friend was into that shyt too mad hyped and all he got for his efforts was some debt to some guy. nikka used to mention it everyday and then suddenly stopped 
one time when i was unemployed, my neighbor was like "yo i heard u looking for work, gimme a call i have something for u" and then he came to my house to "talk about it" and ended up giving me a 1 hour presentation on primerica. i knew he was bullshytting when i told him i wasnt interested and he goes "well u should at least buy the 50 dollar license in case u change ur mind later. its good to have it"
i was like
one time when i was unemployed, my neighbor was like "yo i heard u looking for work, gimme a call i have something for u" and then he came to my house to "talk about it" and ended up giving me a 1 hour presentation on primerica. i knew he was bullshytting when i told him i wasnt interested and he goes "well u should at least buy the 50 dollar license in case u change ur mind later. its good to have it"
i was like
FLYINHAWAIIAN
Vegan For a Reason
Drop the story, at what moment did you realize they were about to get you?
Some bad light skinned chick on tagged hit me up and was holding regular conversation.
She then ended up asking If I wanted to make some money. And I asked how.
She brought up that GreenDot Card and how I could just put in a certain amount and she could add a zero.
All I had to do was send her a few hundred.
The pictures looked like she actually worked there cause I saw an office with random folks and the same girl.
So I went and got the card and shyt and put $100 on there and she called me.
She was asking for some number on the back and shyt and she kept saying hold on cuz her boss was coming.
She was actually holding random conversation with me during the process.
Fast foward some time later she said that it went through and that she would transfer me to somebody.
After she said that, the phone hung up and I tried to call back and it was actually the GreenDot business but nobody answered and the chick's voicemail came on.
I went to tagged to ask her why the phone hung up and I got an error while sending the message.
I went back to her main profile and It didn't have a message icon. *which means I wasnt her friend and I couldnt message her*
I hurried up and went online and requested a refund and it went through.
Few minutes later she messaged me saying to try again cuz the code didnt work.
I said "why you blocked me!?" and she said "you're not blocked". *bytch I know I ain't blocked cuz you unblocked me so I could reply*
After that I told her to gtfo here tryna scam me and that was it.
Never got caught up with that mess again and I started going on potential victim's pages Tagged/Facebook telling them to not do it.
BTw, this was like 2011 when that scam was new.
I had another dude tried to get me by using a pic of some hoe with some big ass titties and barely dressed to drag me in.
I told dude I know its a scam, how long has he been doing it? and he gone mess around and get caught.
He asked how .
I explained that if you read the terms and conditions you can only add up to like $599 in one day which contradicts the whole adding zero thing.
i have a resident who tries goes to conventions and drinks those weird energy drinks. before i came, they tried to hustle the RA's on staff and got embarrassed. even worse, they are a good worker, just extremely gullible. a nice powerpoint and fake authority can do magic
i pray for her. and if i see any of them fools around my residence hall, they get booted off the premises and i confiscate all flyers.
separate note, we got westboro baptist to come through and protest the Derrick Gordon fiasco, this week is about to be
i pray for her. and if i see any of them fools around my residence hall, they get booted off the premises and i confiscate all flyers.
separate note, we got westboro baptist to come through and protest the Derrick Gordon fiasco, this week is about to be
I'm not gonna lie i do know someone who is actually making bank off that herbalife shyt. Actually both of them work at the airport. The one guy is always taking trips somewhere. Now we do fly free or if its ovrrsees its mad cheap but all the hotels and stuff he does adds up . You aint doing all that ish with no money. Hes a real fitness type guy so him being so in shape kinda sells it cause they got protein shakes. Everytime i turn around he has a new person under him as a "coach" shyt is genius actually. And him and his homies do boot camps so when ppl start to see progress theyre all
Real talk, herballife is the only MLM that I've seen some people actually make work, but they be on that fitness shyt too and that does help to sell it. From what I heard you have to had purchased enough of the product in order to reach a certain discount milestone. After that you get like 50% off everything forever. Dude I know doesn't even try to recruit people. He just sells the shakes/vitamins products and keep it moving.
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
those income disclosure statements posted a few pages back are
can anybody find the one for Pre Paid Legal?
I was reading that they changed over from a publicly traded company to private so they aren't required to provide it
brehs they sold my mom, she didn't sign up but she's asking me to go to the next meeting, and spitting the usual lines. Them coming at her through the church got her defenses down.
Some bad light skinned chick on tagged hit me up and was holding regular conversation.
She then ended up asking If I wanted to make some money. And I asked how.
She brought up that GreenDot Card and how I could just put in a certain amount and she could add a zero.
All I had to do was send her a few hundred.
The pictures looked like she actually worked there cause I saw an office with random folks and the same girl.
So I went and got the card and shyt and put $100 on there and she called me.
She was asking for some number on the back and shyt and she kept saying hold on cuz her boss was coming.
She was actually holding random conversation with me during the process.
Fast foward some time later she said that it went through and that she would transfer me to somebody.
After she said that, the phone hung up and I tried to call back and it was actually the GreenDot business but nobody answered and the chick's voicemail came on.
I went to tagged to ask her why the phone hung up and I got an error while sending the message.
I went back to her main profile and It didn't have a message icon. *which means I wasnt her friend and I couldnt message her*
I hurried up and went online and requested a refund and it went through.
Few minutes later she messaged me saying to try again cuz the code didnt work.
I said "why you blocked me!?" and she said "you're not blocked". *bytch I know I ain't blocked cuz you unblocked me so I could reply*
After that I told her to gtfo here tryna scam me and that was it.
Never got caught up with that mess again and I started going on potential victim's pages Tagged/Facebook telling them to not do it.
BTw, this was like 2011 when that scam was new.
I had another dude tried to get me by using a pic of some hoe with some big ass titties and barely dressed to drag me in.
I told dude I know its a scam, how long has he been doing it? and he gone mess around and get caught.
He asked how .
I explained that if you read the terms and conditions you can only add up to like $599 in one day which contradicts the whole adding zero thing.
Same thing almost happened to me....This bad lightskinned jank hit me up on POF so I was like
and we started talking. After a few exchanged messages she was like I can help you. So I was like 
and at the same time. So I was like how? She said I can get you paid. 
word? What I gotta do? She said I just had to buy a vanilla refund card and put $200 on it and she can access the system and add a 0 and turn it into $2000. 
sounds too good to be true. So she sent me pics of bank statements, her working on her computer with the program up, and a receipt with a huge amount on. Than she gave me her boss' number and was like give him a call. 
ok I'll hear him out. Basically he broke it down to me what happens during the whole process. Then he said call me back when you're in the store and I'll be on the phone the whole time and fix the amount while you're on the phone and you'll be good. Immediately I'm like 
this don't sound right. So I went back on POF and asked the chick if she could front the $200 for me and I'll give her double back.....immediately she came with the excuses. "Thats not my job." "Thats like giving you $2000." "My boss won't allow me to do that." So now I'm like I knew it. So basically from there on I just kept calling the dude like every day for like a week playing around acting like I'm retarded. 
they won't get me
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why would anyone need to explain to anyone that that shyt thurrr is a scam?
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fukk primerica. 
Those fukkers contacted me and I thought I had a legit interview. Got my résumé all together. Got me a nice interview outfit. Drove 45 minutes to some huge office building. Got to the directory of the building and it said the suite I was heading to was primerica
I didn't even get on the elevator. Called the recruiter lady back and cussed her the fukk out. Wasted time and money on that bulshyt
Those fukkers contacted me and I thought I had a legit interview. Got my résumé all together. Got me a nice interview outfit. Drove 45 minutes to some huge office building. Got to the directory of the building and it said the suite I was heading to was primerica
I didn't even get on the elevator. Called the recruiter lady back and cussed her the fukk out. Wasted time and money on that bulshyt
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
Superstar
fukk primerica.
Those fukkers contacted me and I thought I had a legit interview. Got my résumé all together. Got me a nice interview outfit. Drove 45 minutes to some huge office building. Got to the directory of the building and it said the suite I was heading to was primerica
I didn't even get on the elevator. Called the recruiter lady back and cussed her the fukk out. Wasted time and money on that bulshyt
its not for everybody breh
It's a waste of time and money for almost everyone.