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The free cruise robocalls around 2010 or so? They hit everywhere, hard, and I remember the ringleaders being led away in handcuffs on the news. It was the first big enforcement of the do not call list.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 17:05 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:44 |
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Griefor posted:it's a pretty simple method of adding a product changing hands to an illegal pyramid scheme, thereby making it legal (Not a lawyer and not sure if I'm getting it 100% right, but I believe that's the gist of it). ToxicSlurpee posted:MLM isn't a Ponzi scheme in the end; there are similarities but Ponzi basically paid the first investors with later investors. It looked like the promises were kept but they weren't. A pyramid scheme isn't a Ponzi scheme either; they are distinct. MLM really is a pyramid scheme with an attached product. The guides to making money on MLM are very explicit about all the money you cannot make by selling the product ever, only by recruiting. It is a recruiting job where you recruit other recruiters, period. It is a pyramid scheme. It isn't enforced for the same reason that felony poppy seed possession isn't enforced, which is institutional inertia.
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 03:28 |
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The weird parts of Merchants of Deception is whenever he and his wife opened a bonus/commission check from Amway, it was not even 1% of what he was expecting, given his sales. And instead of asking for the other 99%, he would just ask 'what do I do' and act very confused because he didn't actually know what his cut was supposed to be. Because it had never occurred to him at any point to find out. (He was also an accountant. A professional auditor.)
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2017 16:34 |
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Platystemon posted:Should I help defraud the U.S. federal government. What’s the worst that could happen? Huh. It may go against the spirit of the regulations, but if it's technically fulfilling the requirements for a contract, then the his little corporation would be as 'legit' as any number of private contractors for the military.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 18:25 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Yep. I got a call a week ago about fraudulent activity on my CC asking me if I'd made any purchases in Orlando. I've only been between Jacksonville and St. Augustine for the last 3 or 4 months so, no. Oddly, the only registered charges were a couple of $1 service charges but not the purchases themselves. Did you put air in tires using a credit card? Those machines are run by very small, incompetent operations that often report transactions happening wherever the owner is based.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 13:53 |