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MLM Bot Watch 73 A thread about desperate bots desperately botting

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MarchXX · 18/09/2022 06:57

Saw previous thread was full, so started this one Grin! Thread 73, who would have thought Shock. So much has changed over the years of these MLM threads but it is interesting that some stalwarts are still going, many thousands of victims in their wakes.

The MLM industry is counting the cost of a more awakened population who can now see through this scam industry, although there are still the serial bots who believe they fail because they 'didn't try hard enough' rather than understanding that the business model set them up to fail, and join countless MLMs in a desperate attempt to find success Sad.

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BSintolerant · 08/11/2022 00:14

Reminiscence? I remember it well. 😉 Isn’t it the resurrection of TS Life?

How is Messiah doing these days?

Norma27 · 08/11/2022 02:13

Ms Sponlie has been doing lives on Reminiscence.

Gems1210 · 08/11/2022 08:14

Oh dear- a really good friend of mine has got involved with them 😢

Twentytwentyhindsight · 08/11/2022 08:25

Sorry to hear that @Gems1210 - Reminiscience is as dodgy as they get.
It is a reinvention of TS-Life, which is under investigation by the Irish police.
TS-Life itself is a spin-off of ActiLabs, under the nominal leadership of a particularly unpleasant chancer known on these threads as Messiah Bot. He had been sacked by his previous MLM for some pretty egregious bullying of women in his downline. He is in hiding on social media (if not also in real life), but pulls the strings in Reminiscience.
I don't want to complicate things too much, but the real power behind TS-Life/Reminiscience is the owner of ActiLabs/Urban Retreats who, by all accounts, is as dodgy as they come.

fromdownwest · 08/11/2022 13:06

Castles Insta posts - It is almost like she is trying to convince her self.

Be happy, it is selfless.

Dragging your son out of school, your parents away from their home, and flogging a sub standard course on the other hand is not selfless.

YouOKHun · 08/11/2022 17:09

@Gems1210 as previously mentioned Ms Sponlie on FB and on YouTube and TikTok and Hey Hun Ban the Scam (her related page on FB).

Sorry about your friend, it’s a disaster for her but she will probably have to work it out for herself. Google “Donegal pyramid scheme” to read Irish media reports from November last year about the day Messiah had to do a runner. This unfortunate visit from authorities was about the previous incarnation of Reminiscience but there is no difference between TSL and Reminiscience, and certainly no difference in the horrible outcomes for people. It is even worse now as people really are struggling and losing money to Reminiscience is going to be catastrophic for some.

there have been attempts to muddy the waters and disguise TS Life and Messiah’s hand in Reminiscience, by moving things more obviously under Acti/UR control and away from Republic of Ireland which has turned out to be less of a scammers paradise than the U.K.

it is the dodgiest of the dodgy as everyone has already said and I’m disappointed Messiah is able to continue conducting business from Telegram and continue to rinse people like your friend.

Norma27 · 08/11/2022 19:54

Why does yawn keep getting id’d in Tesco when she doesn’t drink?

Ladiva1971 · 08/11/2022 20:18

I was about to say the same thing Norma!!

BSintolerant · 08/11/2022 20:21

She’s probably buying knives. 😉

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 09:03

I see PhD is still peddling frRē/ë îñv.êštmèńt masterclasses...

fromdownwest · 09/11/2022 09:04

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 09:03

I see PhD is still peddling frRē/ë îñv.êštmèńt masterclasses...

N. Othing se em a do.dgy a - bout the way she wr.ites to get around seRch functions

fromdownwest · 09/11/2022 10:50

Scamversitys latest appears to be asking for 'experts' to come and present in their groups.

The latest one is.....dropshipping!

This ship sailed about 5 years ago! Instagram is full of dropshipping spammers, when you buildin costs, and base floor prices on amazon, it is a way to lose money.

Imagine spending £39 a month to be taught that this is a viable way to earn money, whats next? Mystery shopping, envelope stuffing, Tupperware parties?!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 13:15

What colour felt tips to use on your hungry and homeless sign...

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 13:19

What emojis to use on your application for Universal Credit...

BSintolerant · 09/11/2022 13:46

The curriculum for Scamiversity can be seen on the post-it notes on the wall in that fascinating photo of Castle doing a high kick.

Dropshipping went out with the ark - as it were. The deluded fools who are paying for this poor, outdated content could find much better advice for free if they knew who to follow online. Niall Doherty has excellent resources and he’s not afraid to give honest reviews of online courses. I think he’d go to town on Scamiversity.

BSintolerant · 09/11/2022 13:52

@Twentytwentyhindsight 😆🤣

How to make six figures on Only Fans by decorating your chest of drawers with chalk paint and gold leaf. (Drawers are optional.)

fromdownwest · 09/11/2022 14:21

Post it notes

Dropship - About 10 years too late
Air BnB - Rising interest rates, increased legislation, and increased taxation - sign me up
Crypto - I hold a fair amount of crypto, and have seen a yearly loss of circa 40%. I can afford to absorb this, and fully understand the risks associate with it. Recomending it to people on the breadline is insanity.

It is like they asked a 12 year old how to make more pocket money!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 16:11

I wonder who will be course leader for Scamversity's Crypto module?
I believe professors Wig 'n' Sleaze who have an unparalleled record of 'educating' people on the subject are currently in the UK...

YouOKHun · 09/11/2022 16:16

They should ask Salon to deliver the training on drop shipping as she always claimed that’s what Nutonic was. But she may be too busy with her Choc Chicken Cartilage shake these days.

I think your ideas for additions to the curriculum at Scamversity are very useful @Twentytwentyhindsight and I would like to add the following:

Marketing:

How to appear relatable by clasping a giant mug.

Why mad-eyed smiley photos will sell your business

Why a high kicking gusset shot is inspiring

Children - they sell themselves - guide to using your children as content

False kindness and concern - how to position your critics as jealous and sad haters who you’re worried about.

Utilising someone else’s hard graft and success to obscure your own failings - a Master Class from Castle

hastag BeKind: repelling anything less than positive with the simple BeKind defence

Charity - how to use it to obscure your own commercial endeavours. Case study: FLP and breast cancer.

Legal and Finance:

Financial monitoring: Looking down the back of the sofa for the odd bit of change.

Speculate to Accumulate: paying yourself by buying all of your own products with your own money and watch it accumulate in your garage and being coached to do it.

Income tax: Use of PayPal to obscure earnings and how to ignore the haterz who say it won’t work.

Income tax: free yourself from it by leaving your J.O.B and just pretending it isn’t a thing.

Directors’ Loans - it’s free money!

Your guide to building a cast iron legal contract using cut and paste and how to manage the trolls who say that what you’ve produced has zero standing.

Managing worthless drop outs from your coaching business by threatening to sue them.

Profit: how to use a series of smoke and mirrors to create a sense of financial success.

Profit: how to make money from your customers’ private data

Profit: how to hang on to it by manoeuvring your customers into believing they have no consumer rights to cancel or refund.

Profit: you’ve just got to really want it and it will flow towards you: case study - Nurse.

Investment: you can’t go wrong with some poorly fitted jackets and a trip to Florida. Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do.

BSintolerant · 09/11/2022 16:49

@YouOKHun 🤣🤣Love it!

Can I make a suggestion? How about a module on how to juggle your seven figure coaching business whilst driving a delivery van.

Spongebobette · 09/11/2022 18:19

‘Devolved income opportunity’ is the new ‘passive income stream/side hustle

WisteriaLodge · 09/11/2022 18:39

Norma27 · 08/11/2022 19:54

Why does yawn keep getting id’d in Tesco when she doesn’t drink?

I wondered the same and wow, how vain is Yawn? Bloody hell...

Twentytwentyhindsight · 09/11/2022 20:04

Looks like Bruv is not 100% convinced his tenure as leader of the 'photoshoot' module at Scamversity is a secure means of income.
He appears to be hedging his bets and has posted a "finally got my aloe stocked up" story on Insta, complete with picture of fridge full of gloop...

stockpilingallthecheese · 09/11/2022 22:19

Yawn you to her usual tricks of trying to make it look like she has loads of attendees to her training while posting the same set of people twice Confused

stockpilingallthecheese · 09/11/2022 22:21

She also has the most dated looking slide deck I've ever seen!

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