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MLM Bot watch 62: MLMs taking advantage of CoronaV and other scams

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GoldenKelpie · 29/07/2020 18:36

Here is link to previous thread...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/3937557-MLM-Bot-Watch-61-enquire-within-upon-everything-pyramid-shaped?watched=1&msgid=98721275#98721275

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 20/09/2020 22:09

@Getthekettleon2020 - surprised our favourite Ponzi 'power couple' appear to have missed that one...

acatcalledjohn · 20/09/2020 22:56

Thanks @SSDGM. I was secretly hoping it was like Actilabs/Mermology/TS Life, which was all identical, save for the labelling.

SSDGM · 21/09/2020 08:23

There are noises that BBL is having to move house as JP isn’t paying enough to afford the mortgage. Her accounts aren’t pretty.

Spongebobette · 21/09/2020 08:40

@Twentytwentyhindsight you don’t know nuffink

SSDGM · 21/09/2020 09:24

[quote Twentytwentyhindsight]@Spongebobette - is that a double negative?[/quote]
Much like the Bot’s bank balances.

fromdownwest · 21/09/2020 10:41

Have you seen the prices of Castle's side hustle?
£7 for a few pencils with 'inspirational' quotes on
£9 for a mouse mat!

Is there pressure from uplines to buy this stuff?

Spongebobette · 21/09/2020 17:27

Yes, bots used to buy the planners for their downlines as

  • a way to ‘recognise’ them
  • a way to suck up to Castle
ticktock19 · 21/09/2020 18:14

Wig has used the most terrifying filter yet on her and Sleaze...their current adventures in London are just ridiculous

BSintolerant · 21/09/2020 22:05

Pencils with hunspirational quotes on them? I’d be more inclined to buy pencils engraved with dire warnings like:

“You wouldn’t chew my end if you knew where I’d been.”

“I used to belong to the constipated accountant.”

fitgirl26 · 21/09/2020 23:00

@ticktock19

Wig has used the most terrifying filter yet on her and Sleaze...their current adventures in London are just ridiculous
With a post so daft it's laughable but this sort of shit is being spread widely across social media at the moment. Maybe she wants to read up about her claim that having a swab up your nose breaks the blood brain barrier:

"A swab stick inserted into the nose would need to break through multiple layers of tissue and drill through a bone and into the blood vessels to reach the blood-brain barrier."
That's called basic biology Wig. You know - actual science rather than the rubbish that you and Sleaze are spouting to your deluded followers.
Oooh they make me so angry 😡

Spongebobette · 21/09/2020 23:29

They really are appalling people

acatcalledjohn · 21/09/2020 23:54

"A swab stick inserted into the nose would need to break through multiple layers of tissue and drill through a bone and into the blood vessels to reach the blood-brain barrier."

They'd probably benefit from the lobotomy.

@BSintolerant I can't help but think about The Vicar of Dibley with the accountant/pencil joke Grin

BSintolerant · 22/09/2020 00:08

@acatcalledjohn Grin

Here’s another one: “My other case is a castle.”

fromdownwest · 22/09/2020 09:39

'My other business doesn't make money'

Spongebobette · 22/09/2020 11:01

‘I’ve been exploited in a new way'

RudieSmithy · 22/09/2020 15:14

IronBot has got to stop telling people she earns a proper wage from selling juice plus!!

Spongebobette · 22/09/2020 16:08

Saw this on Insta and thought of Wig and Sleaze

MLM Bot watch 62: MLMs taking advantage of CoronaV and other scams
ticktock19 · 22/09/2020 17:26

@Spongebobette

Saw this on Insta and thought of Wig and Sleaze
Sums them up perfectly, I've sneakily joined a 'scamdemic' group that a woman who Sleaze kept posting about set up and they're all fully woowoo'd up in there..QAnon, pizzagate, child abduction tunnels being blown up are the reason for the Leighton Buzzard earthquakes, vaccines are poison, 5G poisoning and some horrific references / comparisons to Nazi Germany...Sleaze and Wig are in there too and are being seen as some sort of heroes for their attendance in London this week...its chaos BUT does remind of the MLM structure and almost cult like behaviours. There seem to be a lot of vulnerable people in there who just need to believe in something (as real life is pretty confusing and turbulent right now) and want to be part of a community and have been sucked up in to it all. They're constantly posting worried statuses about how do they deal with schools / employers and are being told to pull their kids out of the system and not to abide by their employers rules and they should lose their jobs to stand up for their principles. Prime picking ground for people like Wig and Sleaze which worries me a great deal
fitgirl26 · 22/09/2020 19:46

Apparently Sleaze cries his eyes out every day because he's so full of love.
🙄

Seriously - get over yourself, fuck off and take that waste of oxygen Wig with you.

fitgirl26 · 22/09/2020 19:56

I read an article today about the connections between the COVID conspiracy theorists and the far right. There were some unsavoury characters behind that protest on Saturday. It also spelt out the actual backgrounds to some of the so called experts involved. It was actually quite chilling.
I don't credit Wig and Sleaze with enough intelligence to recognise this.

Spongebobette · 22/09/2020 19:59

No, they just enjoy feeling part of a special group

ticktock19 · 22/09/2020 20:20

Exactly @Spongebobette they are just using this as a way to get attention and I'm guessing then drag / encourage people into their other scams

spanfan · 22/09/2020 21:24

@fitgirl26

I read an article today about the connections between the COVID conspiracy theorists and the far right. There were some unsavoury characters behind that protest on Saturday. It also spelt out the actual backgrounds to some of the so called experts involved. It was actually quite chilling. I don't credit Wig and Sleaze with enough intelligence to recognise this.
Ooh that sounds interesting. Where might I find it??

Thank you

Twentytwentyhindsight · 22/09/2020 21:46

I believe it may have been in The Independent, @spanfan.

A friend of mine is a photojournalist who attende the previous (and considerably larger) event in London.

He said that the organisers, while coming across as amateurish, clearly had some money behind them.

He described the attendees as mainly a ragtag bunch of cranks, conspiracy theorists and assorted nutter, with a significant far-right element present.

It tallies with what @ticktock19 said earlier about the 'scamdemic group Wig'n'Sleaze promote:

"There seem to be a lot of vulnerable people in there who just need to believe in something (as real life is pretty confusing and turbulent right now) and want to be part of a community and have been sucked up in to it all. They're constantly posting worried statuses about how do they deal with schools / employers and are being told to pull their kids out of the system and not to abide by their employers rules and they should lose their jobs to stand up for their principles.
Prime picking ground for people like Wig and Sleaze which worries me a great deal".

Just like the scammers and cultists, the far-right see an opportunity to draw more vulnerable & confused people towards themselves.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 22/09/2020 21:51

Was it this article @fitgirl26 ?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/anti-mask-freedom-rally-qanon-conspiracy-piers-corbyn-b512736.html

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