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

[Spongebobette]

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

Size 8 is tiny, there's no way she's an 8, the group photo in Cannes told a different story, she looks more like a 12 to me.

So yawn is pounding the streets of Bristol where people are apparently snapping her hand off at the "they can't believe it opportunity" she's offering. Have a day of love!! And size 8 my arse. You're a standard 12

Ok I don't like Yawn. But she's looking good (photoshopping aside) and I'd give my right arm to get hold of that snakeskin dress. Been googling for ages to try and find it.
If you read this Yawn - pop it on Vinted?
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FL is starting to dredge the bottom of the barrel in the UK if they are sending sparkly Diamond Managers out on the street to hawk their business. Nothing says dodgy more than a street hawker.

I wonder how much Ubers move is to do with her divorce. They really haven’t been married long enough for a 50:50 split of everything and I’m certain that after one divorce she was savvy enough to have a prenup. The house sale has more to do with the vastly reduced bonus cheque and possible insolvency accompanying it.
She has been less and less engaged with FL so maybe she is consolidating her capital ready to exit.
I think she expected to be given Bob’s job and is carefully preparing to to a Castle.

Yes, I guess there's nowhere to go (other than Bob's role) once even being Uber isn't bringing on the money it used to.

Her pension value has halved. Possibly due to falling investment value but more likely she has drawn down to syphon off and hide money while going through the divorce. She has also been B&Bing her directors loan in both her companies.
She has an interest only mortgage in addition to all the loans so what looks like a healthy capital balance is not that happy.

Oh yes no doubt about it she does look fantastic, but I still don't think she's a size 8, the Princess of Wales is a size 8 and roughly the same height give or take and Yawn's not that thin, (which is good imo). She looks a healthy size 12 to me

Uber took half her pension pot and spent it renovating her holiday cottage

her ex husband spent many months working on it and they seemed to break up after it was finished.

he’s probably done loads of work which she needs to pay for or else he could ask for a share of the property

Yes, pounding the streets of Bristol probably being told to fuck off by almost everyone. However if anyone has been pinned in a corner by Yawn then they’ve possibly handed over their details. Yet another example of Yawn collecting data, handling data and no doubt still misusing it to harass someone later on, and she still isn’t registered at the ICO.

Her minions are handing out info cards to people which I expect get chucked in the next available bin. All those travelling costs etc for a pointless exercise. It’s not “networking” it’s a public nuisance.

Scam by the Sea is a serious white elephant. It’s not a particularly convenient place to go and stay and the demand for overpriced UK holiday accommodation is over. I think the renovations look like they were an over-spec. Each time she spends a night in it the cost of doing so must be equivalent to a suite at Claridges.

Wow, the desperation is obvious....trawling the streets of some random city, targeting mums, people on their lunch breaks.

As if avoiding chuggers and weird religious nutters wasn't enough, now you have to dodge the bots too.

@NormalForNuneaton Yawn is ridiculous isn’t she?!. I wonder how many times they were told to fuck off? Walking the streets of a City harassing strangers is what Yawn calls “networking”. I call it desperate.

It is also such an outdated way of trying to promote a “business”. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t be cynical in this day and age about an approach in the street by a pushy chancer like Yawn. I imagine most people told them to piss off or took the flyer and binned it at the first opportunity. People are more “privacy aware” too, people don’t give out their private details so willingly these days, especially to some random stranger. Last time she did something like this I reckon people were less aware of MLM as one thing the pandemic did was make many more people sick of approaches and aware of the scam. I bet she heard the words “pyramid scheme” more than once yesterday. I should think the journey home was less joyful than she implies.

An expensive day out too, petrol in the thirsty Rangey, lunch, pointless printing of flyers and even if they did manage to extract personal details from anyone it’s almost certain that it will go no further than that. Let’s hope her new sidekick thinks about what she’s been engaged in and comes to her senses. Hopefully she isn’t stupid enough to be dazzled by a trip to Cannes and can see that yesterday is a much more accurate picture of “the opportunity”.

@YouOKHun you're so right about people being more privacy aware, especially when it comes to emails. People don't want to be bombarded with unsolicited emails, scam emails or have their details sold on to other scammers. The media is full of stories about people being conned by dodgy emails, phone calls and companies.

I hate this current trend of shops asking for your email so they can forward your receipt or whatever ...I always refuse and have heard lots of other people do the same, so there's no way many people are going to pass on their details to a complete stranger who approaches them in the street.

They’re just chuggers now. How demeaning. Is this the new country CEO’s idea

I also question what Yawn is doing with the data she does keep. For my business I have to register with the ICO because I hold name, address, phone number details for clients on paper and on computer. I also hold more personal information too. I am sure many bots like Yawn gather, manage and share the kind of data that might well mean they need to register with the ICO. Especially when their business starts to creep into other areas like offering services like “nutritionist” or “coach/therapist”.

You misunderstand -it’s because she has a Louis Vuitton planner and she notes down contact details in there - that’s perfectly legal

Is that the planner that she has lost and is now asking people to resend their details if they have been trying to get in touch?

How about a new entry in the Dictionary of Botshite?

Bogger (noun) A bot who harasses strangers in public, often in the middle of the street, in a desperate attempt to sign them up to join their team to participate in an amazing opportunity. (vb) To bog. Example: “I’m going to Bristol to do a spot of bogging.” “I can’t believe a word that that bogger told me about social sales: I wish she’d bog off.” Etymology unknown, but believed to have been revived from Ancient Greek sources by historians recording the existence of the pyramids at Giza.

…. which reminds me … Wig n Sleaze’s friend Coco (remember him?) was on the news the other day, something to do with a court appearance.

@lostinlego that’s the one. Of course, it isn’t lost but it will be interesting for her to see which victims are still watching her social media enough to respond and send her their details again, as those will be the ones to target. She is so transparent.

Had a little chuckle at Yawn’s story. Posted latest sales of marine collagen, her team members name is perfect for selling fish waste.

I feel a fool @Spongebobette. I’ve spent loads of time and energy on being GDPR compliant when all I needed to do was encase other people’s private information in Louis Vuitton! Whoever finds her allegedly lost notebook will find they are unable to decode the details of victims’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, family details and other notes she has made simply because it’s too classy for them to touch!

Yawns got torrential rain. Reckon the Thatch is leaking like a sieve.

I’m the same, I hold A LOT of client data. I am registered with the ICO, CE+ security certified and a full GDPR policy and breach procedure in place.

Has anyone contact the Ico for potential data breaches ? Could get a lot of them in very very hot water.

I’m sure all this sort of thing is thoroughly covered in all the ‘trainings’ they do and they certainly don’t waste their time on thinking up cool names for their business of sharing ideas for prospecting or taking photos with their tummies pushed out then sucked in

I hope Yawn had plenty of buckets. I’ve just driven through the same storm and there are trees down and lots of branches all over the place. The thatch will be quite porous after the recent dry spell.