Morning! Thanks for starting new thread, Dolly.
It's all been rather surreal, because we have been accused of stalking, bullying behaviour by bots who do this themselves in order to promote their business.
Stalking: targeting people to 'befriend' with the intention of using them and their own fb friends to further their 'business' i.e. make their monthly CCs.
Bullying: intimidating downlines and blaming them if they are not being successful, ultimately ostracising them when they fail. Horrible behaviour.
How do we know this? We have read upsetting accounts from ex-bots, that's how. Have a look at the TV page. Some of them are posting on this forum too.
If any bots who are heavily involved in public self-promotion (attraction marketing) on social media (fb for example) are concerned about their personal details being known by strangers, they must immediately make all their public information private so no-one except select family and friends (real friends, not bot friends (who are not real friends at all, only for as long as you are useful to them).
We actually discussed this subject a few threads ago I remember, and we offered advice about not publishing identifying information about yourself, home, children, activities. It is common sense not to publish things on a public platform without first checking that they make you vulnerable.
I have a private fb page for family/friends but even so never post information about holidays or days out even (or how much money I make
). You just never know who might be reading it.
We can't mention names or even initials identifying someone who is posting on a public arena something untrue, for example making false medical claims in order to persuade a desperate/ill person to buy very overpriced, unproven, maybe even dangerous gloop in the hope it will make them better.
We can publicly warn them to remove those posts (BotWatch), we can complain to fl HO (in the past this made absolutely no difference and our complaints were ignored but this was before we began campaigning effectively), we can complain to the ASA, we can screenshot too. We do all this and it is now making a difference. The ST article has helped too. All the little things are making a difference one step at a time.
The fact that we are being accused of bullying and stalking is proof that people involved in this scam are very worried. They will not be able to make their accusations stick because we have evidence of real bullying and stalking behaviour that they are doing to prospective victims and their downlines. They should be very worried.
We are having an effect people. Lets keep going and posting evidence that we find of illegal claims, lies and deceit from all MLM companies.
Thanks to everyone one has so far contributed their stories, please keep them coming, lets build up the evidence of MLM bullying behaviours.