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MLM Bot Watch 76: Commercial cults manifesting disaster for their recruits

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YouOKHun · 05/04/2023 16:15

Just thought I’d start this thread. If someone else has done so simultaneously let me know!

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definitelynotabot · 02/06/2023 07:12

... and I bet the DSA won't be happy, and I also doubt very much she will get any buy-in from any mlm companies.

LoopyGremlin · 02/06/2023 07:30

What a pile of crap. The certificate looks awful and anything that needs to use the word official is anything but!

NormalForNuneaton · 02/06/2023 07:44

So the ones the bots that are waving around their new certificates....how have they "earned" them? What have they done (other than buy them)? Are they Scamversity "students" ? Have they done other "training"?

Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 07:45

Those poor gullible people proudly holding up their certificate.

It’s so tragic

Sunsea21 · 02/06/2023 08:28

So castle recently announced that she left her mlm “business” empty handed and it was essentially all a scam and waste of money… her solution..: a mlm certificate?!?! How does that make any sense, even in the world of castle it’s bonkers

Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 08:45

NormalForNuneaton · 02/06/2023 07:44

So the ones the bots that are waving around their new certificates....how have they "earned" them? What have they done (other than buy them)? Are they Scamversity "students" ? Have they done other "training"?

What did they pay for them!

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 10:21

CPD is usually a requirement of governing bodies within recognised professions. For example doctors have to complete a minimum number of CPD hours in a five yr cycle in order to remain on the GMC register, same for dentists. It’s a way of enduring the profession maintain and update their basic knowledge.
Im struggling to understand what CPD MLM would require to legitimise it as a “profession”.
Generally top of the list is ethics and scope of practice, along with adult & child safeguarding. All three are sadly lacking in MLM.
CPD does not include how to whoop at mass brainwashing meetings, how to use SM to con people or how to fleece vulnerable women & and a few men.
CPD has to be recorded and submitted to the governing body.
Castles certificates are comparable to those given out at birthday parties.

I called it correctly the other day, her claim to professionalise MLM was a total give away.
Castle just assumes that lots of certificates are what make a professional. It’s the hundreds of hours studying for those certificates that earn the title. I haven’t watched the video yet but I presume she is asking for a yearly registration fee in exchange for a certificate each year. It does transcend all the MLM companies. I predict that they will come down hard on any bot who buys one and probably will introduce their own CPD, for a price.

fromdownwest · 02/06/2023 10:30

Castle is falling over her own lies - she said she left the MLM with nothing, yet in one of her Tik Tok Troll reply videos, she says she is receiving a residual income? Which one is it?

One can not just create a regulatory body, and hand our shiny certificates, without, themselves being assessed? I am sure the DSA would not take kindly to her trying to muscle in on their patch.

Hey Dorothy, I saw your spam posts on face book and wanted to buy some overpriced gloop, just wondering if you could show me your CPD certicate first please

I have to do 60 hours of structured and un structured CPD each year, this is journal reading, attending actual seminars, reading articles to keep up to date with legislation. Watching Castle kiss her teeth, errm, and say hi to everyone joining the call, is not what CPD is about.

SoosanCarter · 02/06/2023 11:07

I wonder how long Yawn’s acolyte spends taking photos until Yawn approves it?

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 11:23

“There is ZERO AGENDA here other
than professionalising the Network
Marketing Industrv once and for all
TOGETHER. There has been NOWHERE online that prospects can check with a 3rd party that has no agenda that they can TRUST you to guide them, hold their hand & teach
them how to build a business.”

Just one of Castle’s claims. The ONLY agenda is to extract £97 out of every sucker that falls for the bullshit.
Absolute tragic use of the English language throughout. A yr 6 child would do a better job.
The CPD covers basic bot training, you just get a shiny bit of paper and your bank account is down by £97. I’m waiting to see how many of her ex flp colleagues warn their downlines not to engage. Or maybe they spend their time in Cannes coming up with their own flp accreditation scheme.

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 11:26

PS IF I WAS AN FL MANAGER AT CANNES I WOULD BE SIGNING UP TO CASTLES NEW SCHEME AND PLAGIARISING IT THEN SELLING IT TO MY DOWNLINES FOR HALF THE PRICE.
Do you think they heard that😁

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 11:27

Sorry that should have read “in Cannes”

fromdownwest · 02/06/2023 11:33

'Network
Marketing Industrv once and for all' Please tell me this is a copy and paste.

The irony!

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 11:55

Copied and pasted. Sorry didn’t check for errors. Although only the v is incorrect.
Just dived into the world of Cpd certification and so far Castle doesn’t appear on the CPD services provider list. I wonder if it slipped her mind to actually register with them. Or have they just used the logo illegally. The average charge to register your CPD courses starts at around £200 annually so not expensive. But like the MLM business, the accreditation business seems a little too easy to rubber stamp CPD.

YouOKHun · 02/06/2023 12:03

Can’t find Scamversity here https://cpduk.co.uk/

I’m sure the DSA would be irritated by Castle’s latest scam, mainly because they’ve tried themselves to pretend to have regulatory power and have claimed they are there to legitimise the “industry”. If everyone is laughing at the DSA for claiming such bollocks then Castle hasn’t a hope beyond her collection of very gullible victims who let’s be honest will only ever be a “CEO” or have “CPD certificates” while victims of MLM.

Will they have to submit their CPD hours every week and reaccredit every fortnight? Annual submission of CPD isn’t going to be much of a money spinner and now Bruv has fired up the printer they may as well try and milk this in the short term. I predict this certificate mill will be over when either Castle gets distracted by another purchase or fad or Bruv discovers his printer has run out of ink. They really are a pair of wasters.

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YouOKHun · 02/06/2023 12:06

Cross post @Angrymum22 re the CPD service!

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Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 13:07

Nice little earner, getting people to pay to print out their own meaningless certificates

meanwhile Bruv is making fun of his hardworking parents again.

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 13:44

YouOKHun · 02/06/2023 12:06

Cross post @Angrymum22 re the CPD service!

No problem. I got lost down the rabbit hole too. Then I went outside to do a bit of gardening.
I suspect the CPD company won’t be happy if Castle is using their logo.

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 13:52

If you go onto the Scamversity site they now have Accredited members section where you can check that they have parted with their £97.

Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 14:02

What an absolute and utter scam

fromdownwest · 02/06/2023 14:22

Seeing these grown women, holding up an asbolute worthless certifcate, that has cost them money is just tragic. How that woman sleeps at night is beyond me.

Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 14:58

Angrymum22 · 02/06/2023 13:52

If you go onto the Scamversity site they now have Accredited members section where you can check that they have parted with their £97.

So it’s possible to see how much money Castle has raked in with this scam

Howsimplywonderful · 02/06/2023 15:17

70 people have forked for her ‘certificate’ (I counted them on the website)

YouOKHun · 02/06/2023 15:32

Me too @Howsimplywonderful though I counted 69 as one person’s name appears twice. How many are fictitious or have been given a concession to plump up the numbers?

As with all her scams it’s only got a short lifespan so this week is the best business she will do out of her certificate mill. If she has taken c.£6k from those 69 victims that won’t take her far once Bruv and the likes of Salon have demanded their cut. I don’t suppose the tax authorities in Gibraltar or UK will see any of it.

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