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BOTWATCH 78 - the latest thread in a VERY long series about the deceptions practised by MLMs. Unbelievably people are still being hooked in by these schemes where 97% of those who join LOSE MONEY

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Spongebobette · 04/08/2023 17:33

BOTWATCH 78 - the latest in a long series of threads where we keep an eagle eye on the lies and deceptions practised by MLMs. Unbelievably people are still being hooked in by these schemes where 97% of those who join LOSE MONEY and the top bots are struggling to pretend they are taking it in

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 16:53

women’s magazines are desperate for content and don’t employ journalists so are grateful for any content like ‘miraculous weight loss’ ‘I saw a ghost’ ‘I made money on onlyfans’

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YouOKHun · 11/08/2023 17:25

@Spongebobette would they like some reader experiences of being swindled by an MLM do you think?

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 17:27

Yes I am sure!

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 17:32

‘I was abducted by aliens’ ‘ I married my brother by mistake’ ‘my dog is the reincarnation of my grandma’

‘I was convinced that selling lip balms to my family and friends would earn me financial freedom and a white rangey’

’a grinning woman on Insta using heavy filters rinsed me of all my money and now I have no friends’

‘I sold all my old clothes on Vinted, even my old bras, because I was so skint’

’how I found out what a narcissist is’

’i thought she was my friend and I’d found my tribe but it was all a scam’

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 17:36

‘1001 things to do with out of date aloe gelly’

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 17:54

Why is Nurse sharing videos of her empty and full fridge?

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YouOKHun · 11/08/2023 18:22

Could we use it as an exercise in creative writing? First one to get their MLM victim story in print wins a matchbox model of a white Rangey and a mindset coaching session with a block of lard?

Whilst anything published would be fiction, it wouldn’t be as fictional as most of the bots’ success and would be much closer to the truth of MLM. It would be a public service really.

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 18:36

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction

if anyone had told me a few years ago I’d be following the ‘journey’ of a rather dim and boring nurse as she entered an MLM, tried her best to pretend it was going well ‘I love my business and I do’, fall for the scam of Scamversity, decide to throw in a secure job in the belief that manifestation and the law of attraction would guarantee success, start a ‘business’ on a private FB page and then not bother to work as the sun is out … well I’d have gone to the foot of our stairs

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PieonaBarm · 11/08/2023 20:00

She was only out the house about four and a half hours yesterday and needs a day to do nothing today because it was "full on". She really needs to get a grip. The kid does longer days at school.

LeoDiCapricorn · 11/08/2023 20:03

Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 18:36

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction

if anyone had told me a few years ago I’d be following the ‘journey’ of a rather dim and boring nurse as she entered an MLM, tried her best to pretend it was going well ‘I love my business and I do’, fall for the scam of Scamversity, decide to throw in a secure job in the belief that manifestation and the law of attraction would guarantee success, start a ‘business’ on a private FB page and then not bother to work as the sun is out … well I’d have gone to the foot of our stairs

It's literally fascinating I'm just hooked! How does she manage it financially? How does she not bore herself? How many of those literally the same tops does she own? Literall how many messages does she receive?

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 20:09

I literally do not know

I am fascinated to know who she thinks she’s talking to in these non stop lives - her mum and a lot of botwatchers I suspect

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Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 20:12

Re the financial side - she said she’d spent £25 on a day out and then was going to the zoo the next day - probably spent about the same
she has no income does she? And has spaffed 5k on a course which consists of watching videos and making copious notes by hand in notebooks.
it’s a mystery

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NormalForNuneaton · 11/08/2023 20:19

...and lives in a 3 bedroomed house which means her son has a "craft room" ....and rented a 6-8 berth caravan for the 2 of them on holiday.

Let's face it she's never going to do any real work because she's got either wealthy family/has won the lottery/inherited a shit ton of money/robbed a bank

Shortpoet · 11/08/2023 20:35

Did NNN ever take her boy to Legoland? I seem to remember that her original goal was to make enough money from FL to be able to afford the trip and stay in the hotel at the theme park.

If she hasn’t gone, she must have spent thousands not to meet her goal.

meatbaseddessert · 11/08/2023 21:41

Shortpoet · 11/08/2023 20:35

Did NNN ever take her boy to Legoland? I seem to remember that her original goal was to make enough money from FL to be able to afford the trip and stay in the hotel at the theme park.

If she hasn’t gone, she must have spent thousands not to meet her goal.

It was Cbeebies land. And no she didn't.

meatbaseddessert · 11/08/2023 21:47

Spongebobette · 11/08/2023 17:54

Why is Nurse sharing videos of her empty and full fridge?

Because she thinks she some kind of an influencer. She said on her live that she was doing a food shop and would do a post on her fridge later. Confused
She's also done a cleaning one. A making a cup of tea one. Tidying a room one. A jelly setting one. A buying cleaning products at B&M one. It looked like she was trying to become Brums answer to Mrs Hinch for a while but like everything she sacked it off after a couple of posts.

YouOKHun · 11/08/2023 22:15

NormalForNuneaton · 11/08/2023 20:19

...and lives in a 3 bedroomed house which means her son has a "craft room" ....and rented a 6-8 berth caravan for the 2 of them on holiday.

Let's face it she's never going to do any real work because she's got either wealthy family/has won the lottery/inherited a shit ton of money/robbed a bank

It doesn’t quite add up does it? The IVF was private too. I think her parents pay for things and her mother seems to be endlessly “supportive” so I think it’s Bank of Mum and Dad, some dwindling long service NHS pay off money and Universal Credit. I expect the house is privately owned (perhaps by her parents?).

SoosanCarter · 11/08/2023 22:29

She blocked me after I commented that spelling mistakes in her blurb do not look professional.

YouOKHun · 11/08/2023 23:21

@SoosanCarter I bet she didn’t block you and then quietly correct her spelling mistakes, because unless you told her exactly what was incorrect so she could easily correct her errors she wouldn’t have bothered as working it out for herself would be too tiring. Pointing out the obvious bad impression given by poor spelling and grammar is being “negative” in her book. She is very thin-skinned in some ways and on some level knows she’s a lazy chancer and others have spotted it.

LibyanFeet · 12/08/2023 06:45

YouOKHun · 11/08/2023 18:22

Could we use it as an exercise in creative writing? First one to get their MLM victim story in print wins a matchbox model of a white Rangey and a mindset coaching session with a block of lard?

Whilst anything published would be fiction, it wouldn’t be as fictional as most of the bots’ success and would be much closer to the truth of MLM. It would be a public service really.

I know someone who used to do something similarly entertaining with two of his friends. They’d write the most OTT jingoistic, ridiculously fake letters to the Nazi Daily Mail’s letters to the editor page just to see how many they could get published. The letters were based on what they thought the average Daily Heil reader would make of current events. One of them signed off his letters using the name of a particularly irritating, meddlesome character from a Wagner opera, which always seemed to go unnoticed by the editorial team. Every so often I’d get an email with the happy news “We’re in again today!” 🤣

Perhaps we should form a secret Facebook group? 😉

meatbaseddessert · 12/08/2023 10:18

Oh god. NNN only post this morning was her making a Forever shake.

Coaching must be going well to be resorting back to your failed Bizniz

Sugarplum48 · 12/08/2023 10:32

Imagine your only and entire identity being that you've lost 6 stone and that's what your whole existence revolves around. Yawn really has nothing else to offer or bring to the table apart from relentlessly banging on about her weight. It's actually concerning just how obsessed she is. It's far from healthy the way she is. And my god nnn, dull ain't she!!! She's another one who talks utter nonsense

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Spongebobette · 12/08/2023 10:46

meatbaseddessert · 12/08/2023 10:18

Oh god. NNN only post this morning was her making a Forever shake.

Coaching must be going well to be resorting back to your failed Bizniz

Yes I wondered whether she was trying to revive her Forever Failing business

always good to have multiple streams of income of course 🤣

I suspect that one of the current strategies by ‘leaders’ is to contact ex bots and try to bring them back into the fold

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YouOKHun · 12/08/2023 14:05

SpecSavers Bot is in Nurse’s FB group and was liking posts so I wonder if she’s convinced Nurse that now her “mindset” is right she will be more successful with FLP?

BSintolerant · 12/08/2023 14:18

I doubt the scammer formerly known as Nurse is trying to resuscitate her Forever Living folly. I suspect she’s just desperately trying to make a bit of cash by selling the huge amounts of FL stock she was brainwashing into buying to curry favour with Yawn.