knickernicker Encouraging potential victims of the 'MLM' lie to apply for the Jobseeker's Allowance, is par for the course.
One of the problems which has faced 'MLM' racketeers, is how do you steal from persons who don't have money? Their solution has been to persuade potential victims to beg, steal or borrow money.
In the USA and elsewhere, 'MLM' recruits have been widely encouraged to go to micro-finance institutions like Grameen Bank.
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It has recently been reported that certain well-informed staff in the offices of Grameen America have finally applied common-sense and begun openly-warning potentially-vulnerable clients to avoid 'Multi-Level Marketing Income Opportunities' in general, and 'Herbalife' in particular. However, it was already a matter of public knowledge that a significant number of poor people around the world have been obtaining money from micro-finance institutions (like the Grameen Bank), but then progressively handing their borrowed-cash (which was intended to assist them is starting their own economically-viable, lawful business activities) to 'MLM' racketeers in the deluded belief that, by doing so, they would achieve financial independence. At the present time, due to a lack of full-disclosure by the senior officers of the micro-finance institutions concerned, it is impossible to determine exactly how much cash has been stolen in this way. One thing, however, is certain, this is a growing problem and one which has alarming parallels with the toxic-debt/liar-loans scandal - deliberately hidden for years, before it triggered the current world economic crisis. Anyone looking at this problem with fully-functioning critical faculties, should be able immediately to deduce that micro-finance institutions, in their present (opaque, let's trust everyone) form, could almost have been instigated for, or by, 'MLM Prosperity Gospel' racketeers. It is, therefore, supremely ironic that a recent initiative which has been universally-acclaimed as a means of escaping the poverty trap, has already been so widely-subverted by fabulously-wealthy thieves. However, had it been clearly-understood how cults function (via the manipulation of the existing beliefs and instinctual desires of their adherents), then their infiltration of micro-finance institutions could easily have been foreseen and prevented.
Decades ago (faced with investigation and media exposure), in order to continue to function, 'MLM' racketeers were obliged to hunt outside of the USA for fresh, ill-informed victims to deceive and exploit. For a while, this endless-chain recruitment fraud only infected developed countries, because victims need access to money to play the self-gratifying 'MLM' game of make-believe. However, parasitic groups, like 'Forever Living', 'Amway', 'Herbalife,' etc., are now able to feed off developing countries (where the average citizen has neither cash nor credit), because micro-finance institutions have conveniently provided otherwise-destitute people with sufficient cash.