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MLM Bot Watch 77: MLMs are scams, you will lose money and paying £97 for an ‘official’ certificate won’t change that

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Spongebobette · 02/06/2023 15:22

we continue to call out the bullshit peddled by MLMs and the scam artists on the fringes who making money from coaching and pretend certificates

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Spongebobette · 03/06/2023 09:12

It looked extremely cult-like at Cannes. Everyone dressed in the same colours and whooping

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LeoDiCapricorn · 03/06/2023 11:44

It looks hell on earth in Canned Angry

BSintolerant · 03/06/2023 13:16

Yawn is delighted to be “networking” in Cannes. I’m sure the rest of the world would prefer to spend their time in Cannes not working.

BSintolerant · 03/06/2023 13:23

Castle’s Scamiversity Certified MLM suckers may as well have downloaded their certificates from The University of Bums on Seats: http://cynicalbastards.com/ubs/courses.html

I have a certificate for my PhD in Arse Elbow Differentiation. It was free as well. I’m tempted to get another one in Post-Feminist Needlework. 🤣

University of Bums on Seats

http://cynicalbastards.com/ubs/courses.html

YouOKHun · 03/06/2023 14:27

Trusted & liked by 24K+ people! I've found a way to give the Network Marketing industry more CREDIBILITY, even more LEGITIMACY & more PROFESSIONALISM than it’s ever had before

This is from Castle’s earlier post. Who are these “24K+” people who like and trust Scamversity? Think of a number, any number …

She needn’t have bothered with with all this certificate business because the only people falling for it are the people who would have fallen for it if she just told them it was “credible” and to hand her £97 to hear her finish the sentence and tell them it’s legitimate and professional as well. I feel sad for the two characters she featured as the first two customers to pay £97 for a useless pdf, they seem pretty vulnerable and think they’re achieving something they wouldn’t be able to achieve in “real life”. They don’t realise they’re being fleeced. I wonder if Bruv has a good laugh at them like he does at his parents?

For everyone else it just confirms the opposite of legitimate, credible and professional.

@BSintolerant I am VERY tempted to start my own learning institution with certificates and accreditation. The Advanced Registry of Scamming Endeavours (ARSE) offering certificates exactly mirroring Scamversity’s offering but with added clip art as I don’t think Bruv is giving enough in those £97 PDFs. I could then contact Castle and ask her if she wants to be the president of ARSE. That’s assuming she doesn’t think she’s talking to the Executive Legitimate Business Organisation of Wankers (ELBOW) who would probably run a very similar outfit and of course she won’t hold your PhD so there is the possibility of her getting confused.

I think the competition would be good for Scamversity.

BSintolerant · 03/06/2023 14:38

🤣🤣@YouOKHun

Does the 24k refer to 24 carat arseholes / elbow holes who like scams?

Angrymum22 · 03/06/2023 15:26

There doesn’t appear to be any more mugs who have signed up for a “certificate”. Although that’s probably more to do with Castles part time engagement in any project she is involved in. They have probably switched the computer off to go to the beach.

Spongebobette · 03/06/2023 15:32

I think it’s Bruv, in his ‘studio’ above the garage, who is probably in charge of issuing certificates, but he keeps distracting himself by creeping up on his parents and videoing them unawares and posting on social media with laughing emojis and ‘I’m dying 🤣’

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YouOKHun · 03/06/2023 15:35

We must be 48 hours post “reveal” now so the certificate mill must be almost dead in the water. What next for the BIGGEST REVEAL EVER (the one that is coming next week or what ever)? Can she come up with anything even more lacklustre exciting?

Spongebobette · 03/06/2023 18:00

It’s tragic and infuriating

the ‘first’ to get the certificate (apart from Castle’s sidekick) is an FM bot, a single mum with a son with autism

the ‘first man’ to get the certificate is a Nuskin bot with a daughter with a serious disease

these are vulnerable people trying hard to cope with what life has thrown at them, and have been recruited into MLMs and, to add insult to injury, Castle has rinsed them of £97 for a worthless certificate which they have to print themselves

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Angrymum22 · 03/06/2023 20:24

If you study the posts with certificates they are all posted with mid May dates. They must be scamversity students who have been given a prevue and probably didn’t have to pay.
It is 15 hrs of content, so it may take the bots a while to complete. Hopefully Castle will post regular updates for dramatic effect. Expect a closing date for this year to get certified ( although most of them need certifying for handing over £97 for a bit of paper) to create a rush to sign up. Castle is so predictable.

NormalForNuneaton · 03/06/2023 21:50

I see Yawns back on the heavy filtering of photos.

That photo of her in a red dress in front of the louvre doors. It's not just the bobblehead ....look at her waist and chest areas...WTF is going on?

Ladiva1971 · 03/06/2023 21:56

The way the blinds run looks weird.....

Mummytolittleones92 · 03/06/2023 22:01

I’ve dipped in and out of this over the years under a different username (have a family member involved in this crap so need to be careful). Is Castle the person that used to sell NuSkin?

Howsimplywonderful · 03/06/2023 22:08

No, castle was in FL.

Castle doesn’t seem to realise that FL ‘made’ her a poster girl and funnelled customers to her, look at her views then and now. She thinks she did it all on her own when nothing could be further from the truth.

Angrymum22 · 04/06/2023 01:56

NormalForNuneaton · 03/06/2023 21:50

I see Yawns back on the heavy filtering of photos.

That photo of her in a red dress in front of the louvre doors. It's not just the bobblehead ....look at her waist and chest areas...WTF is going on?

The biggest give away is the marked difference in her face shape on the title photos of her Facebook page. Two photos right next to each other but so different. I’m really not sure why she makes her face so narrow. She has real body dysmorphia issues.

Howsimplywonderful · 04/06/2023 10:32

I see Castle is back hanging out with FL living at a party. Perhaps she will try to flog her training on him

Angrymum22 · 04/06/2023 12:28

I don’t follow Nurse regularly, her life is more boring than mine which is quite difficult. But why oh why do they not check their copy before posting. She has put up a flyer for her mental health coaching and right in the middle is a huge spelling/typing error. Straight away invalidating any professionalism. With so much scamming going on over the whole digital platform, the first thing we all do to check we are not likely to be scammed is look for errors.
Time and time again these idiots fail to check, which is a shame for Nurse because she is probably qualified to advertise this service.
However she needs to validate her qualifications and make sure that her registration details are on the flyer so people can check that she has up to date registration and therefore indemnity.
I do hope she reads this thread.

NormalForNuneaton · 04/06/2023 14:11

I've just seen that mistake on her therapy post too🤦‍♀️

I also saw that she's on a count down to the summer holidays and can't wait. FFS she's only done about a weeks work (if that) in her new job.

Ooowhatshappeningnow · 04/06/2023 16:14

Thanks for the new thread, place marking 🙂

YouOKHun · 04/06/2023 20:30

@Angrymum22 she isn’t a BABCP accredited CBT therapist. When I asked her about what therapy she was planning to provide she said CBT. I asked her if she was BABCP accredited and she said she was last year but didn’t bother this year. She was obviously confused with being a member of BABCP (which anyone can be) and going through post grad accredited training and annual re accreditation by submission of a training and supervision record.

I don’t really trust her therapy ability especially when she is so easily convinced by woo. I think she’s read a few books and downloaded a few CBT forms. I am sure she is clued up on risk assessment, mental health acts, some assessment measures and MHN is certainly an ideal core profession, but I bet she’s doing this private therapy without CBT focussed supervision and without insurance specific to delivering therapy face to face or online.

She also worries me because she was off sick for a year and busy focussing on FLP and manifesting woo so I don’t imagine she is particularly up to date clinically or administratively re the MH nursing. She’s pretty idle and looking for the easy road and though I think she is probably basically well-meaning with therapy offer I still wouldn’t want to put my mental health in her hands. The inability to proof read is the first of a few red flags.

definitelynotabot · 04/06/2023 20:51

Ooh shiny new Fred 😀

Has Castle ditched this exciting new groundbreaking thing yet, and gone onto yet another exciting new groundbreaking thing?

Yawn photos are definitely very weird. The louvre blinds are a giveaway. I don't get why she needs to do that, she is looking great.

Crikeyalmighty · 04/06/2023 20:56

Could someone tell me who this person is- haven't seen any previous threads and got a fair bit of time in my hands this week as H away- I love reading a good scam

BotOff · 05/06/2023 00:51

Mmmm all stinks as per…. hey Castle ya scammer, why not ask Cornflakes if you can pop ya certificates on their boxes… ya as flakey as them and ya pathetic attempt at a qualification has as much substance!!! Anyway, not been commenting much lately, but this latest development have just got to put my two pence worth in! Castle- you are a grade A c##t that bought, bullied and cheated your way to the top! I guess we have to give her this though …she did see an opening to exploit an already corrupt business model! However, you vile, bullying, scamming little c##t your time is up! Real business requires REAL skills, not the absolute fluff you keep dishing out! Honestly, sooo much more I could say and dish on this creature but it will save! Tbf it’s so much more fun watching these cretinous creatures unravel themselves though 😂 Ps can’t wait to see what pathetic attempt you come up with next to scam the innocents… though ya crap at it now😂😂😂