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MLM Bot Watch 37 - Planes, Trainings and Automobiles

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Whiterangey · 02/04/2018 18:22

Brand new thread for a brand new month.

In which this years bonus cheques will be revealed, which is my favourite time of year.

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BangingOn · 04/04/2018 08:05

I’ve fallen down the car club rabbit hole too, some seriously dodgy characters involved, which is no surprise.

Just realised this morning how quiet Castle is of late, is she still active in FL?

fitgirl26 · 04/04/2018 08:43

So were Wig'n'Sleaze not the lucky recipients of one of the first three PCC cars? Did they not move fast and intentional enough?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 08:58

Yeah, didn't Wig describe herself as a 'founder member'? Looks like the Power Couple have yet again missed out on the inner circle- the only one where anyone will make anything in this ridiculous Ponzi.

ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 09:08

According to Wig, they will qualify next month and are just waiting to see what level they will qualify at... eeek! Exciting!

Bet it never happens. It never happens for them or for their poor mislead downline.

I wonder what happened to that ridiculous 3D printer that they bought from GCC back when crypto currency & 3D printing was The Future? I’ve never seen them print anything. And it cost £ thousands...

Spongebobette · 04/04/2018 09:12

I think Wig and Sleaze are ‘useful idiots’ to those who start these schemes

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 10:02

At the level they're at, they're not likely to get the car and if they do, it won't be for long. The only thing they will get out of this is dozens more irate mugs seeing them as directly responsible for their losses. No wonder Sleaze is keeping a low profile.

fitgirl26 · 04/04/2018 12:46

PCC's "IT guy" was heavily involved in Life Tree World. Chick peas anyone?

ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 13:41

Stay classy, PCC!

@Twenty @Sponge: your assessments of Wig ‘n’ Sleaze are spot on. I reckon they borrow & get into debt in order to buy in to new schemes/go to meetings etc, in the hope that this will be the MLM/scheme/Scam that will finally make them.

entrepeneur · 04/04/2018 14:15

Wig&Sleaze have a very loyal following considering they must have lost a lot of money for people that get drawn into their rich quick schemes. How do they get away with it? They even had someone take them to court recently but that all seemed to blow over.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 16:19

Maybe I'm wrong, but most of their 'loyal following' seems to be made up of similar 'wannabe leaders' desperate for that one chance to get their fingertips into the inner circle, but condemned to a life of chasing the next big thing, soaking a few gullible strangers on the way.
I can't imagine that the majority of their target audience can afford to get shafted more than once. Most will simply disappear to lick their wounds and put it down to experience (although this doesn't mean there is not a growing band of people who might want to personally and forcefully express their displeasure should they chance across them).

ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 17:06

Anyone on Twitter? Could you #PMMehun x

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 17:32

Wouldn't know how to Arbunne! How does one PM on the app?

cozietoesie · 04/04/2018 17:34

You can't, Twenty. (Unless they've introduced it very recently.) You have to go to the main site.

Whiterangey · 04/04/2018 17:37

This post is going to be a thread disruptor!

I've been writing posts for a long time, but i've never written a post quite like this one, even though I said the same thing only last week about another post.

I agree @Twentytwentyhindsight I think they are all the same and keep missing out on getting in on the newest scam in time to actually make money.

I'm not sure if it's just the impression I get or it's actually true, but it seems to me that Crypto-Ponzi's aren't lasting very long at all. It seems to me that the big net winners are now either those who started the Ponzi, or those very top scammers who have huge teams under them and drag them from Ponzi to Ponzi. People not directly involved with those starting it don't seem to be doing so well.

The Ponzi's are everywhere with new ones every single day. Bitcoin has dropped and appears to be carrying on dropping and alt-coins have dropped as well.

ICO's have dropped in popularity as well. GCC was much hyped and I believe it's at less than a cent per coin.

I still remember the hype over the GCC coin being released. Sleaze was posting 100 times a day about how it was a gamechanger and how rich they were all going to be. It was released and it dropped like a stone. It was actually about a year ago now. It was released at 35 cents, and dropped to 3 cents in less than a day. Sleaze disappeared for 5 days. It was funny.

Techcoin doesn't seem to be happening, although plenty have been sold.

It does seem to be mostly the diehard not so bright greedy people who seem to be throwing as much money as they can borrow at as many Ponzi's as they can.

Those that made huge amounts in USI and other Ponzi's will now have less money as it's all in Bitcoin, which makes me happy.

The SEC in America, I think that is what they are called, are throwing cease and desist notices everywhere. They have even mentioned people, one of which had his house, and car raided and his assets seized.

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ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 18:38

Spot on @White.

Crypto ponzis are becoming a much harder sell because everyone knows that the value of the currencies has plummeted since Christmas. Hence all the desperate posts about long-term value propositions and the switch in ponzi emphasis from ICOs to shares in mining pools.

People are jumping from one to the next, often on the promise that the money they lost in ponzi A will be recouped in ponzi B. Or C. Or D... that’s why they continue to follow the likes of Broke’s Ex & Wig from one to the next: they’re desperate to believe there’s a way to make good their losses and finally get rich quick.

cozietoesie · 04/04/2018 18:51

It's just very very difficult to say to yourself 'I've been foolish' and then walk away with losses. Big losses in some cases. Very very difficult.

Ladiva1971 · 04/04/2018 19:03

OMG on my FB page, suggested pages shows me Brafordbots coffee shop page, I swear I only clicked on the link once about a week ago.

acatcalledjohn · 04/04/2018 19:18

With regards to the IT man at PCC being ex LTW...

Didn't the LTW leaders once get done for fraud with lease cars? I swear there was an article on it.

In which case the alarm bells start ringing again. It's not just a pyramid scheme, but perhaps some fraud to fund some of it?

fitgirl26 · 04/04/2018 19:35

Yes - there were two brothers at the top of LTW and one had been jailed for a car leasing fraud. They left LTW for Coinspace and are now flogging Trade Coin Club which is yet another Cryptoponzi.

acatcalledjohn · 04/04/2018 19:45

Sent you a link @fitgirl26, just to check if that's the one before I share it on here.

ReformedBot · 04/04/2018 20:24

Bots currently sharing the Forbes article featuring at least 4 FLP bots. Why is Forbes recognising MLM?! PHD Bot is one of the ones featured. Irony that there is so many 'rivals' featured on one page.

ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 20:51

Forbes has a very dodgy editorial policy. You can pay to ‘publish your opinion’ and there is a blogger policy not unlike the one that Huffpost used to have, whereby as a approved platform blogger, you can publish whatever you like. Huffpost have tightened up their editorial policy because the content was rubbish. Forbes, not so much x

ArbunneHun · 04/04/2018 20:54

So, almost any old scam can find its way onto the Forbes platform, but anyone who knows anything about business & journalist will view it cynically x

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 21:15

Yes Arbunne, but the general public, at which this is aimed, will view it with a much less critical eye.
After all, in this age of fake news and trial by social media, who better to rely on than an an established and trusted outlet?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 04/04/2018 21:20

'an an'? There go my subbing credentials!