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MLM Bot Watch 52: The continuing saga

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Jasmin82 · 16/07/2019 22:21

Continuing on from previous threads.
BBC documentary:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076n2hg

OP posts:
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VTechnophobe · 20/08/2019 22:29

www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/former-rugby-star-ben-cohen-and-strictly-come-dancing-s-kristina-rihanoff-to-join-meal-packing-event-in-warwick-1-9041193

It's not just the free publicity but also the veneer of respectability and credence that articles like this give to this bullshit that really boils my piss.

SaucySausageSandwiches · 20/08/2019 22:39

Nurse has copied & pasted from Yawn but added 75p onto the price of her “free” opportunity... how can you describe something as free and then say it’s £200 in the same sentence?! Baffling.

Ladiva1971 · 20/08/2019 22:48

My campaign will include 90 days of 1 on 1 coaching, a 7 week training course, as well as massive team motivation and support
All of this is FREE, you just need the business starter pack for £199.75 there is no other viable business I know, where you can start for less. So not free then???

Twentytwentyhindsight · 21/08/2019 02:14

@VTechnophobe - It's lazy stuff from the Warwick Courier, they've just recycled FLP's press release.

Did anyone notice a recurring theme? "it's free to attend but (...) we are asking for a £10 donation". cf Yawn & Nurse's 'free' opportunity that only costs £200...

So the bots are expected to fork out to burnish FLP's philanthropic credentials- they really don't miss any chance to fleece them, do they?

DownThePan · 21/08/2019 07:36

So the aloebots are paying for the food and providing free labour whilst the company scoop in and take all the glory and it costs them nada!

Cacacoisfarraige · 21/08/2019 07:57

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leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 08:39

@Cacacoisfarraige unlikely - unless the bots were using an offshore umbrella company. More common in the IT contracting world.

Did anyone see the comment on PHD's Instagram photo (generic picture of woman's legs in a bath with a hand holding champagne- quite obvious NOT her). Comment said "looking great!" And PHD responding "thanks!" Totally pretending it was her:

Jigsawpuzzle · 21/08/2019 08:52

Castle targeting Chiropodists now. No doubt Funeral Directors next, Aloe embalming anyone.

MLMhun · 21/08/2019 10:09

@Jigsawpuzzle where is castle targeting Chiropodist’s? I looked at her FB.

leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 11:08

@MLMhun she asked

"Does anyone know a chiropodist in xxxx area pls?"

That's the tactic all the bots used last month when searching for yoga teacher recruits.

No doubt chiropodists will be required to tout the benefits for foot health. Or some shit.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 21/08/2019 11:28

Yes, there are several uses to the "does anyone know a ... in the area".

In some cases, such as this one and the yoga one that @leasedaudi mentions, it's about targeting a specific target audience for recruitment (it means they can fit their spiel to the group before spamming them en masse).

In others, it's part of "I'm considerably richer than you" attraction marketing, along the lines of "does anyone know someone who restores priceless Ming vases in the area?"...

leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 11:37

In some cases they ask for electricians to replace a hob that they broke in an Airbnb though 😂

Jigsawpuzzle · 21/08/2019 12:17

Don’t think Yawn could fool face recognition AI

DownThePan · 21/08/2019 12:38

9 days of aloegloop and Facetune does wonders!

MLMsuperfan · 21/08/2019 12:41

The recommendation requests help stopping Facebook clocking you as a spammer, as they cause interaction with the bots posts, rather than everything being outbound.

leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 12:44

@MLMsuperfan interesting!

Spongebobette · 21/08/2019 14:59

Yup, many many bots post questions on their FB purely to get some interaction.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 21/08/2019 16:55

I never sacrifice time with my children (Yawn)

..... unless it's during their GCSEs when hubby and I bugger off abroad on a FL brainwashing whoopfest in a conference centre jolly

BangingOn · 21/08/2019 17:45

I notice that Iron Bot has relocated to Ireland, possibly moving in with family. Reading the latest insolvency report on Companies House I am wondering whether her house is being sold to pay off the director’s loan. Of course none of this negativity has made it onto her social media.

Whiterangey · 21/08/2019 19:49

Yawn has posted a photo from two days ago alongside a photo from a few months ago to show how much thinner she is. It's just her face and of course her selfie from two days ago was taken by her with flattering angles and she would have taken about 20 to choose the slimmest face one.

The photo was in a shop, in a paint aisle, so likely somewhere like B&Q. So you have a mid forties woman with full slap on and suited and booted taking selfies in the paint aisle.

Just think about it for a minute, it's absolutely ludicrous, who in the world does that kind of thing?

leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 20:45

Omg someone needs to comment on how her teeth have improved since last month. It's obviously an old photo before her braces. God I wish I could get a fake Facebook account working

DoraExplorer99 · 21/08/2019 21:06

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leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 21:07

Ah my bad then!

leasedaudi · 21/08/2019 21:18

I don't think I see all her photos 😢

Whiterangey · 21/08/2019 21:21

It's a terrible photo, it wasn't her photo, someone else took it. The photos she posted on the day made her look 3 stone slimmer than those taken by others.