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MLM Bot Watch 46 - Lies, damn lies, and attraction marketing

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 31/01/2019 21:16

The continuing crusade to expose the underhand tactics used to lure (mainly) women into exploitative schemes using the lure of 'financial independence'.

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Spongebobette · 22/02/2019 17:37

@UmBankroll I think I know this family

Does one sister have a name which is the same as a country and another’s double barrelled first name with a colour in it?

UmBankroll · 22/02/2019 17:38

@Spongebobette Yes you’re on the money

Spongebobette · 22/02/2019 17:42

Oh and the mother was a Page 3 model

They have an enormous house (recently was on the market, not sure if it’s sold) and dad had a clothing business. That’s where the money comes from, not from NuSkin

leasedaudi · 22/02/2019 17:56

Honestly where does yawn get off, posting her 800+ calorie meals, claiming to know about macros and needing 800+ calories at dinner due to an active day? If she was lean, I might be tempted to know her secret. But. She's. Not. Lean.

Is she actually just deluded?

Patroclus · 22/02/2019 18:28

www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b19fcfsc2n7jw6/Is-This-Company-a-Forex-Trading-Pyramid-Scheme

On the whole new 'trading' thing. Based around crypto currency and instagram faking mostly and interestingly seems to appeal to young men more.

Patroclus · 22/02/2019 18:29

oops not quite the right thread but relevant enough I think.

UmBankroll · 22/02/2019 18:52

@Spongebobette Yes I knew about the dad’s former business, as well as two of the sisters, but didn’t know that about the mum. It’s plainly obvious for anyone who follows them on social media that they already had money, and I’ve not seen evidence of any lifestyle upgrades whatsoever that suggest they’re making anything from NS. The things they share on their ‘goal boards’ would’ve been easily attainable already if they were indeed making around £28k a month each as they so claim Hmm

Spongebobette · 22/02/2019 19:13

I have DMed you @Umbankroll

spanfan · 22/02/2019 23:32

Yawn is going for it on Instagram. Looking for a chequerboard???

BSintolerant · 23/02/2019 00:23

spanfan 😂

Am I the only one who thought the bottle of water in that Instagram photo was a see-through dildo? For a minute I thought I'd finally discovered the reason that bots are "super excited" all the time. I had to click on the photo to put my dirty mind at rest - although I fear that plastic bottles are a great turn-on for certain deviants out there.

Anyway, what kind of desperate fool photographs a bottle of water on the bonnet of their botmobile? Surely a table, shelf, or loo with the seat down would suffice to display the bottle.

dalecooperscoffeecup · 23/02/2019 07:23

I was absolutely engrossed by this thread last night to the extent I've managed to put a face to a pseudonym. This is madness. And having been down to brass tacks at various points I can see how people get drawn in.

We have a local bot. I should have twigged when I was given a couple of FL freebies. But I didn't, and went to a Doterra evening to support my friend. Hysterical. One of the presenters used to do Body Shop, which set the alarm bells ringing. Along with the curing cancer claims.

Unfortunately for me I did FL for a very short stint (before social media was a thing, so no embarrassing posts) and Ann Summers (which was quite fun and I didn't experience any of the brainwashing I've seen here). Off to find the old threads, keep up the good work :)

willdoitinaminute · 23/02/2019 10:44

It appears that Castles mentor has two fb accounts, one is professional and inspirational the other is a bitchfest. Found this lovely quote.
If you click on his fb link in her post it takes you to the interesting account.

MLM Bot Watch 46 - Lies, damn lies, and attraction marketing
Hunbot · 23/02/2019 12:22

We had a younique bot post in our local area buy and sell looking for home workers who lives about 5 hours away. Got called out and looking at her profile she put a post a few weeks back claiming to have sold 30k of make up THAT DAY. How thick do these people think we are

SSDGM · 23/02/2019 12:59

Dear Sleaze. I’ve done 6 flights already this year and will have done at least 12 by the end of March. Do fuck off with your nonsense. Regards, SSDGM.

suedoname · 23/02/2019 13:03

Castles mentor is part of the USA supreme. The back scratching group who charge $30,000 for two days of training.

After that all the trainees get to line up and have a 30 second photo session with their mentor where it looks like they're besties for social media.

Poonique are currently getting training from baldsupreme who insists you spend 16 hours a day for 30 days calling everyone you know telling them

"I'm in a rush, got to go into a meeting just wondering what you're doing on Tuesday night? / just wondering if you're open to making some extra income if it doesn't get in the way of what you're currently doing"

All these USA supremes have a fishy history including doing time for fraud.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 23/02/2019 13:30

Re. Sleaze's flights, it was 12 between the power couple, and they probably counted each stopover as a separate flight... so a grand maximum of 3 foreign trips in a year - still bragging about it over two years later...

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SonataDentata · 23/02/2019 14:55

I’m gutted. An old friend of mine, a very intelligent and highly educated woman, has started selling Isagenix. She’s a qualified nutritionist which makes it even worse in my eyes. She hasn’t tried to recruit me (yet!) but has asked me to buy her products.

Most of my friends and family know that I’m vehemently anti-MLM (and succeeded in getting Forever Living banned from my previous workplace!) but I’ve never discussed it with this particular friend. I feel I need to be honest with her. Any advice on what to say/how to word it would be appreciated.

Mandraki · 23/02/2019 17:24

Just come across these threads and I am boggling at who all these people you're on about are! I remember a thread ages ago from a lady who's 'friend' had missed her wedding as her hairdryer broke. Turns out she was a bot and the original lady (tge bride) was her downline. Anybody remember that thread?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 23/02/2019 17:36

Yes, that thread was mentioned on this one. The upline Bot in question is the one formerly known on this thread as Brow, now Yawn.

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BangingOn · 23/02/2019 20:10

Has Yawn posted on her business page since the dentist post a few days ago? I’m blocked from her personal page so wondering whether she’s gone back to posting there.

Spongebobette · 23/02/2019 20:19

Yes @Mandraki same person, still desperately recruiting anyone she can get her hands on
Can’t remember who her downline was who she stood up. Probably no longer in FL

Yawn is currently boasting and showing off her ‘dream home’... which is full of cheap tat.

Whiterangey · 24/02/2019 11:40

The person whose wedding Yawn failed to attend left FL and joined Jamberry shortly after her wedding. Jamberry is still on best profile picture although it no longer exists as a company so hopefully that means she hasn't joined another mlm.

UmBankroll · 24/02/2019 14:35

Curiosity got the better of me and I’ve managed to track down some of the aforementioned characters’ social media profiles... Yawn’s Instagram has left me speechless Shock 6 main grid posts per day, but not a single insta story!

A N D . T H E . C A P T I O N S . !!!!

Spongebobette · 24/02/2019 17:12

I would love to see a breakdown of new recruits in Forever Living; how many are still ‘in business’ after 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

Yawn is always bigging up her latest ‘new star/ pocket rocket’ but they usually fade away

SSDGM · 24/02/2019 18:24

Bless. Broke doesn’t know the difference between punctuation and punctuality. Check out the MLMlies exposed page. It’s like word salad.

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