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Help with identifying this mlm scheme...

26 replies

LokiBear · 04/03/2018 10:27

A friend is currently using her Facebook profile to promote what I am sure is a multi level marketing scheme. It started with a photograph of her having lost weight and saying her long term chronic illness had been magically healed. She wrote at the end of her post 'if you want to know how I did this, inbox me'. I missed that bit and for some dumb reason decided the compliment her weight loss in the comments below the picture. She replied telling me to 'inbox her' and she'd share her secret, which I ignored. However I'm now getting spammed with pictures, memes and sales pitch type stuff. She is constantly tagging me with pictures of her breakfast shake and asking what I am eating for breakfast Hmm. I know it's mlm but you have to 'inbox her' before she will -tell you the company- share her secret. I want to know who the company is so that I can send her one, polite and kind, message saying please stop and explaining why. The posts refer to brightly coloured vitamin tablets that she refers to as 'magic beans', meal replacement shakes, and she uses the hashtag LYB which apparently stands for 'Love your body'. Any ideas?

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PeerieBreeks · 04/03/2018 10:28

Cambridge diet maybe?

MissOrganisedMe · 04/03/2018 10:28

Juice plus?

firstevernamechange · 04/03/2018 10:29

Sounds like juice plus to me.

Norma27 · 04/03/2018 10:29

Herbalife? Otherwise known as herbashite?

firstevernamechange · 04/03/2018 10:30

But generally, with or without the name. Sorry X, I'm not likely to buy from youe mlm scheme because...
Should help.

Idontevencareanymore · 04/03/2018 10:31

Juice plus. They're very secretive at the moment. Although it could be anything tbh. Coffee has to be my favourite.

Livedandlearned · 04/03/2018 10:31

Magic beans is juice plus. My cousin, who is a high earner has been flogging these, god knows why.

LokiBear · 04/03/2018 10:34

Thanks! Off to Google!

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MaceWindu · 04/03/2018 10:35

I would bet juice plus, forever living (aloe gloop) or Herbalife.

MerryShitmas · 04/03/2018 10:45

Possibly an actilabs 7 day shred, too.
Just tell her to fuck off

Notanotheruser111 · 04/03/2018 11:28

Isagenix

GladAllOver · 04/03/2018 13:36

Try Googling the exact messages she sent you.
Most of these bots post the same messages, as laid out by their controllers.

vampirethriller · 04/03/2018 13:51

Juice plus. A couple of friends do it.

acquiesce · 04/03/2018 14:07

Juice plus. And the photos they use are highly edited or random before and after photos they have stolen from Instagram profiles of people who have lost weight through legitimate means. Avoid like the plague.

SignoraStronza · 04/03/2018 14:09

Definitely juice plus. What a load of bollocks.

esk1mo · 04/03/2018 14:18

merryshitmas “just tell her to fuck off”

😂😂😂😂😂

LokiBear · 04/03/2018 14:47

Yes I really think it is Juice Plus. I just do not understand how she has fallen for it.

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LokiBear · 05/03/2018 18:25

So I got yet another message today banging on about the secret to health and weight loss and I thought it would be the ideal time to attempt to stop the endless spam. I simply wrote:
Hi xxx,
Is it Juice plus that you are selling? I've already done some research into Juice plus and I'm afraid it isn't for me. Thanks anyway and good luck with everything. Loki.

I thought that was direct and polite enough. No response in words but she's posted an 'ignore the haterrrrz' type meme with a not so cryptic 'Some people think they know it all, when really they are just narrow minded fools. I choose health, wellness and positivity. Sad that others don't.'
Obviously, I can't be certain it's aimed at me but the timing makes it seem likely. I mean, really! It's like she's been brainwashed.

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anothermalteserplease · 05/03/2018 18:31

Sounds something like isogenix. They’re a mlm that are big in North America and I saw friends post that they’re launching in the UK too. The same scam as all the other mlms.

spamm · 05/03/2018 18:33

Screenshot it all, so you can post it to her facebook page daily when she has come to her senses.

Also, it might be a good time to use the 30-day "Take a Break" facebook option, so you are spared her crap for a while. Or just block her.

Sparklesocks · 05/03/2018 18:35

Ugh how exhausting, don’t worry OP she’ll come round when she runs out of family members to hassle and she’s stuck with a load of stock she can’t shift...

Gossipgirl2 · 06/03/2018 19:31

#LYB Love your body is a team in juice plus. When you join you get told that every person you know is a potential customer and anyone who isn't interested is a hater or a neg ferret😳 MLMs are never what they seem. They promise you the world but you just end up annoying all your friends and family.

LokiBear · 06/03/2018 19:54

She's trying to recruit Facebook friends to join her team now. If they all have the same friends who on earth will they sell to?!

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GladAllOver · 06/03/2018 20:10

They won't sell to anyone. But they will buy stocks, which is all that is required of them.

DalekDalekDalek · 06/03/2018 20:14

She sounds like a twat! I would unfriend her and block.

If you want to remain "friends" you can unfollow her so you don't have to put up with the sales pitch for her magic potion. Detag yourself whenever she tags you. Check on FB settings to see if you can prevent her from tagging you in the first place.

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