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MLM Bot Watch 71

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Spongebobette · 24/05/2022 00:52

Yes it’s the 71st thread focused on exposing the lies of MLMs and the deceptions practiced by so/called ‘leaders’ who recruit recruit recruit!
You will only lose money if you join their ‘team’ - don’t do it!

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Twentytwentyhindsight · 06/07/2022 10:48

Great to have you back @Whiterangey and good to know you were one of the fellow sour-faced haterz helping the wheels come off Wig & Sleaze's toxic tour bandwagon. The fight goes on!

Angrymum22 · 06/07/2022 17:33

Well I have had a number of the private group members ( entrepreneursity) sending friend requests on FB. I only posted once but they must have screen shot the group member lists to use for prospecting for their own coaching businesses. They are all “coaches”.
Perhaps this is a problem within MLMs you set up a group. Other bots sign up and pinch all your leads. Probably why the group was very temporary.
Actually if you have seen through C&F and with the ability to cancel whenever you want, £39 is a cheap way of stealing vulnerable/ easy leads for any scam like business.

toomanyhobbies · 06/07/2022 17:37

@Angrymum22 I had friend request from there too. She was another coaching bot and was leaving the Uk to go travelling somewhere (all a big surprise). Wonder if you had the same person.

Angrymum22 · 06/07/2022 20:17

Yes, she is obviously one step ahead of Professors C&F.

lostinlego · 06/07/2022 20:40

Does anyone know if university is a protected term in the UK. If it is would they not be in trouble using it in there advertising?

Shortpoet · 06/07/2022 21:01

lostinlego · 06/07/2022 20:40

Does anyone know if university is a protected term in the UK. If it is would they not be in trouble using it in there advertising?

Interesting. A protected term since April 2019 apparently

www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/university-title/

BSintolerant · 06/07/2022 21:29

Here’s a bit more on regulations surrounding company or business names:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and-names/annex-a-sensitive-words-and-expressions-or-words-that-could-imply-a-connection-with-government

BSintolerant · 06/07/2022 21:33

It’s good to have you back @Whiterangey - glad you’ve been causing havoc for those fools who deserve it. 😊

Angrymum22 · 06/07/2022 22:51

I know historically universities had to have a charter to be able to confer degrees. Interesting that the title is protected.

Angrymum22 · 06/07/2022 22:54

BSintolerant · 06/07/2022 21:29

Oh dear as usual they haven't done their homework.
Hopefully they are watching this thread and panicking or even better one of the many journos who monitor mumsnet will pick it up. Hint . Hint.

YouOKHun · 06/07/2022 23:57

Interesting about the protected term. And here is a transcript of a conversation on FB taken from yesterday’s launch, which I have recorded for a later date, just in case F or C contradicts themselves.

Castle: ‘??? says if we don’t have a business how will this benefit us?
love that Alison! That’s a great question!’.

Fierce: ‘Remember we talked about this in the clarity piece [sound not good and subtitling wasn’t sure about ‘clarity piece’ and nor am I], this is where this comes in. So as a student the first thing you’ll do is an initiation process into the university when you’ll go through a huge clarity exercise in terms of “who am I, what are my skill sets, what do I know that is valuable to someone else? What could I maybe teach someone? What business could I run? Is a product business suitable for me, is a service business suitable to me? Where does my skillset lie?What do I enjoy doing? What fits around my life? That’s the first step’.

Fierce: ‘So you don’t have to have a business, or even an idea ready to go. You just have to have an entrepreneurial spirit [to join us]’.

They then play there university promo video featuring images of Kings College Cambridge with a commentary about standard education not being up to scratch 🙄

At the end of the promo video:

Fierce: ‘actually, just one or two more questions that have come in, ??? says can we cancel any time? Yes! There’s no contract. We want people to be there because they want to be there, so we’ll hold you to nothing other than being an incredible example of success when you’re with us’. [tinkly laugh]

YouOKHun · 07/07/2022 00:01

Over on Twitter the anti MLM Professor of marketing in the US has asked if he could get a job at C&F’s esteemed seat of learning. I need to tell him that it’s not dreaming spires he can see because those pointy things are actually pyramids, and he shouldn’t bother. Mind you I would pay to see him savage them both.

WisteriaLodge · 07/07/2022 01:18

I don't think King's College would be amused that two ex MLMers are using their images..

BSintolerant · 07/07/2022 01:24

They then play there university promo video featuring images of Kings College Cambridge with a commentary about standard education not being up to scratch 🙄

I wonder what would happen if someone were to tell the powers that be at Kings College Cambridge about its unfortunate association with the University of Cheeky Fuckery?

YouOKHun · 07/07/2022 01:27

*their university promo video (my standard of education not up to much either!).

What letters after my name would I have if I enrolled and gained a degree in complete fuckwittery at the pyramidersity? Mrs Y O Hun, E.k.k.k! ?

YouOKHun · 07/07/2022 01:33

They don’t single out KCC, it’s an overhead image taking in the adjacent colleges of second rate edukashun. It’s all very well getting a double first at Cambridge but it doesn’t really teach you how to make an eleven billionty fortune like what Castle does.

Spongebobette · 07/07/2022 07:32

Who is the anti MLM professor on Twitter @YouOKHun ?

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YouOKHun · 07/07/2022 08:51

Professor Bill Keep - he’s a well known commentator on MLM in the US. He started the MLM Conference and was involved in the making of Betting on Zero. @Spongebobette

BSintolerant · 07/07/2022 09:59

YouOKHun · 07/07/2022 01:33

They don’t single out KCC, it’s an overhead image taking in the adjacent colleges of second rate edukashun. It’s all very well getting a double first at Cambridge but it doesn’t really teach you how to make an eleven billionty fortune like what Castle does.

If I worked at Cambridge I wouldn’t be very happy about that at all. C&F have no shame!

Spongebobette · 07/07/2022 10:31

Thank you @YouOKHun

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Ohnonevermind · 07/07/2022 14:51

I can’t believe Ubers holiday home is still largely vacant in July.

Castles whole venture is tragically bad,
from the hideous jackets, the terrible branding, the laughable photoshopping of her face.

what they have managed to do is to assemble 1,000- 4,000 of some of the most stupid and gullible women in the U.K. and I expect a frenzy as all the sharks descend to extract as much value as possible from them.

God bless the idiots like nurse who think they will make friends in the group and develop an entrepreneurial spirit and business

Spongebobette · 07/07/2022 15:22

People like Nurse are so hungry for something to latch on to that they are absolutely ripe for exploitation

anyone who believes these claims that they’ll be guided to ‘make your first million in network marketing’ is seriously deluded

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WisteriaLodge · 07/07/2022 17:12

Spongebobette · 07/07/2022 15:22

People like Nurse are so hungry for something to latch on to that they are absolutely ripe for exploitation

anyone who believes these claims that they’ll be guided to ‘make your first million in network marketing’ is seriously deluded

It wasn't so long ago that Nurse said that her son called Yawn Aunty! That aged well didn't it, it's quite sad really

ticktock19 · 07/07/2022 17:20

Yawns 'stretching' of photos needs to stop, her boobs are almost by her tummy button in the pic by the rangey today

Norma27 · 07/07/2022 18:10

Yawn’ pics get more ridiculous each day!