My recent encounters with MLM pyramid scams: WAKEUPNOW, VISALUS, 5LINX and LIMU
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at WakeUpNow going defunct just months after this thread was made.A family member of mine lost her job because of NutraLife. I told her when she was getting into it that it was a scam and she wouldn't listen because she's always paranoid about money and they were selling her dreams. I even went to a meeting with her to try to prove to her it was bullshyt, her top dog came and just lied his ass off the whole time including a fake picture with Obama. Less than two months after she started she lost her real job cause she made NutraLife calls while at work. Less than a month after that she finally realized NutraLife was a scam and quit.
NutraLife was hit with a $200 million fraud settlement by the US government, and they're still going strong because they fool so many people.
I'm glad that World Ventures "you should be here" bullshyt is gone.
I also can't go to Panera Bread for a while, which sucks because I love Panera.
Back in the 2000s I used to use Starbucks for internet when I was out and it was MLM central. There was this one guy who would rotate the scams, for a few months he constantly meeting up with people to push some goji juice MLM scam (I can't remember which one, whatever was popular back in 2009 or so), then suddenly he gives up on them cause he's not making money and starts pushing a totally different scam.
Once when he went to the restroom I showed the girl he was marking a website exposing his scam.
JetFueledThoughts
Superstar
WakeUpNow was truly a moment in time My barber and weed guy both tried to recruit me to that shyt
My barber and weed guy both tried to recruit me to that shyt
I never understood itWakeUpNow was truly a moment in time
Wages went up dramatically the last few years. That killed the incentive to do MLMs.
MLMs thrived under times of recessions from 2007 to 2018.
GoAggieGo.
getting blitzed.
I still remember the few meetings I went to back in college, and even one of their conferences in Dallas. My boy was big into it. Everytime he’d go somewhere, he’d have to pull that you should be here sign out and take pictures lol.
I was a college kid, and they’d try to get me to join. Of course I had questions, and as a broke college kid, I wasn’t about to just fork over my last $200 for that shyt. They used to get so pissed. “Well, you don’t have a family member you can get the money from?!” “Go apply for a credit card, this is a big opportunity!!!” My hesitation made them mad. I remember I even asked if I could take the application home, so I could go over it with my dad. They snatched that app out my hand so fast lol.
I just remember going to one of the conferences with my boy, and thinking the shyt was like a cult. Place was full of black people. It was sad. So many lead astray by the ones at the top who saw the money.
That's what pisses me off about these MLMs. They always taking advantage of people who either a) think they are doing the right thing or b) trying to make a quick come up. A lot of them are usually black folks.
You got to be a stone out of touch fool to join a MLM or similar scam this day and age.
i dont know why, but Malice verse from I'm Not You popped in my head
It shames me to no end
To feed poison to those who could very well be my kin
But where there's demand, someone will supply
So I feed them their needs, at the same time, cry
There will ALWAYS be fools. Ignorant, desperate, greedy, uneducated, gullible people who believe "THIS is my opportunity to improve my situation"
It's a fascinating look into persuasion and desperation
The campus Panera Bread used to the MLM spot when I was in undergrad - one of my friends at the time actually set up a "business meeting" with me there to talk me into it and I slid right back out after about 15 minutes of incoherent bootstrap rambling.Back in the 2000s I used to use Starbucks for internet when I was out and it was MLM central. There was this one guy who would rotate the scams, for a few months he constantly meeting up with people to push some goji juice MLM scam (I can't remember which one, whatever was popular back in 2009 or so), then suddenly he gives up on them cause he's not making money and starts pushing a totally different scam.
Once when he went to the restroom I showed the girl he was marking a website exposing his scam.
GoAggieGo.
getting blitzed.
Man, we had one of the advisors on campus that was heavily involved with World Ventures. Looking back at it, the school should’ve got him outta there, because he was definitely recruiting while on the clock. Looking back at it, World Ventures was huge back then on colleges all over. My boy got hooked into it, and another breh in the engineering school got involved, and quit school banking on that shyt. His mama paid for him to come down all the way from New Jersey, and at this moment he’s stuck in Greensboro, with no degree, hopping from MLM to MLM; whichever one is hot at the moment. I just know he was on that Jay Morrison crap as well.
Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
A few crypto mlms are about to go belly up. I warned my mom about this. Now a lot of people she brought in will be left with nothing.
I hate these people so much
I hate these people so much
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
did Demar Kashed Out ever resurface?