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MLM Bot Watch 72 - We are watching you bots and we have the screenshots …

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YouOKHun · 19/07/2022 22:48

Eagerly awaiting the start of term at Scamversity - eek!

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Spongebobette · 14/08/2022 13:00

Oh dear me yes

still, as long as they can scrape together £39 a month that’s all that matters 🙄

Twentytwentyhindsight · 14/08/2022 16:29

Castle saying that 'enrolment' ends soon, and after that people won't be able to join Scamversity u til the start of a new 'term'/'course'.
Apart from clearly playing on potential 'students' FOMO (straight out of the MLM playbook - 'only two spaces left on my team'), this seems to me to indicate that if you're in, you're in for the duration of the 'course'- if people can't join partway through (loss of potential revenue, very unlike C&F), it is unlikely they can just leave partway through... T&Cs seem to be trumping the various assurances that you can 'just leave' whenever you want - well, you can, but you'll still be bound to paying the instalments...

Spongebobette · 14/08/2022 16:46

Hotel California

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 15/08/2022 10:54

And....the big announcement is EXACTLY what we thought it was. Ffs.

SnoogyWoo · 15/08/2022 11:37

Struggling to get people to sign up so freshers week is free for everyone now 😂

fromdownwest · 15/08/2022 11:50

I can't bear to watch her, what was the announcement?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 11:51

Exactly what @dickiedavisthunderthighs predicted- the 'networking ninja' will be a guest speaker...

BSintolerant · 15/08/2022 12:00

Be still my beating heart huns. Eeeeeekkkkk !!! etc.

fromdownwest · 15/08/2022 12:03

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 11:51

Exactly what @dickiedavisthunderthighs predicted- the 'networking ninja' will be a guest speaker...

Like a locust isn't he, swooping in for fresh meat!

Again, Like Castle, I see nothing other than a really annoying narcassist, playing on self pity as a sales tool.

I just don't get it.

DecemberGal · 15/08/2022 13:45

The students almost getting orgasmic over the prospect. TMI really.Are some thinking WTF.

Spongebobette · 15/08/2022 13:50

But…..
I thought that between them the scamming duo had ALL the answers?? Why are they bringing in someone else?

yes he’s sniffing fresh meat isn’t he

Ohnonevermind · 15/08/2022 13:51

Next they’ll be roping in castle’s son as he gives castle her business advice 🤣

fromdownwest · 15/08/2022 14:06

All super pumped for Freshers week, never had freshers week, going to be amazing.

Serious question, are these women genuine? Do they genuinely beleive that they are joining a university course?

It really is tragic.

WisteriaLodge · 15/08/2022 14:14

All these "big announcements" there seems to be one every day at the moment. Don't they realize that by doing this it loses the effect they're trying to create? People will just roll their eyes and think "what another one! What other riveting stuff could it possibly be this time......Castle going to Sainsbury's perhaps? People will switch off if they've not done so already.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 14:23

The hype smacks of a certain amount of desperation.
They have laid out a fair amount of money on this venture and it will take a fair few mugs students to recoup that, let alone keep C&F and their various hangers-on in the style they are accustomed to.
I can only see this working for them (albeit temporarily) if they do lock in their victims with the T&Cs, otherwise it's all downhill from the first month onwards.

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 15/08/2022 14:47

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 11:51

Exactly what @dickiedavisthunderthighs predicted- the 'networking ninja' will be a guest speaker...

Joined by Salon and one of Messiah's tippy-toppies. If anyone who actually wants serious business advice has joined then surely they'd now see that they've got no chance.

YouOKHun · 15/08/2022 14:56

Professor Ninja - what a surprise. Of course, he got a very big student grant from his father’s educational fund so I hope the students have similar grants as this is the only way to emulate his success.

I agree that this looks a more and more temporary endeavour, Prof N is the kiss of death in many ways. I noticed quite a lot of the interest in the beginning was from people with fledgling non-MLM endeavours or business ideas and I wonder what relevance the network marketing recruitment message will have (when it’s finally delivered) and for the rest, they could save £39 a month and pick up the same tired old “coaching” from a few free memes on any social media platform; perhaps many are already coming to that conclusion).

I think you’re right @Twentytwentyhindsight locking people in with unfair terms and distraction techniques for as long as they can is the only way this will continue into autumn but turning a profit looks unlikely (and they’ve already spent the first lot of £39s on vomitous “marketing”).

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NormalForNuneaton · 15/08/2022 15:05

I just saw this interesting Instagram post that shows how easily Insta videos can be edited to alter your body ad face shape using various apps.

It's scary that such video editing software is out there for anyone to use, to manipulate what their followers see.

No wonder Yawn , amongst others, looks so different in the background of other people's photos or in real life to what she looks like in her own posts.

Mywelshmammy · 15/08/2022 17:18

I was really hoping this new comment was from one of you lot, but I’ve got a horrible feeling it’s genuine:

So excited for this! I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along for YEARS 😍😍😍 really helping people rather than another money grabbing scheme
LOVE LOVE LOVE

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 17:56

Mywelshmammy · 15/08/2022 17:18

I was really hoping this new comment was from one of you lot, but I’ve got a horrible feeling it’s genuine:

So excited for this! I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along for YEARS 😍😍😍 really helping people rather than another money grabbing scheme
LOVE LOVE LOVE

They really are tragic.

YouOKHun · 15/08/2022 19:06

That commenter looks like she has a non-MLM business - What a tragedy that she thinks these two MLM failures are going to change her life for the better. Just below someone has asked if there is going to be anything not aimed at NWM and has been told Prof N is actually a coaching expert, not just in NWM. The lies … ☹️

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fromdownwest · 15/08/2022 19:38

So, all this is free. Worth thousands, can you remind me what the mugs who paid £39 are paying for?!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 19:40

fromdownwest · 15/08/2022 19:38

So, all this is free. Worth thousands, can you remind me what the mugs who paid £39 are paying for?!

Castle's trips to Spain and the photoshoot.

definitelynotabot · 15/08/2022 23:03

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 15/08/2022 14:47

Joined by Salon and one of Messiah's tippy-toppies. If anyone who actually wants serious business advice has joined then surely they'd now see that they've got no chance.

Did they market it as a general business degree rather than an BA in MLM - how much did they mention MLM?

If they didn't say it was MLM focused, then there is presumably going to be a bunch of exceedingly disappointed students.

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/08/2022 23:06

MLM is the only thing they know. Even Castle's 'side hustle to the side hustle' was about flogging planners to MLM bots.
How anybody would have thought Scamversity had anything more to offer is beyond me...

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