Top portion of a "Letter from Heaven," produced in England. Such bogus machinations have been around for a long time.
Nearly half of the unsolicited mail I receive centers on a similar scheme: Read this message, sign up as an affiliate,pay an initiation fee, share this message with other lazy folks in your circle, build a huge downline of carrot-chasing thieves, rinse and repeat, and finally retire in the Bahamas in six months or so.
There may be a product or service as an inducement to these schemes, but the material is often hackneyed, untruthful or dated and inserted just to keep the authorities from clamping down on the organization (rightfully) for being a pyramid or Ponzi Scheme.
Wikipedia defines a pyramid scheme as follows:
A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public. Pyramid schemes are a form of fraud.
So…how many of those “exploding MLMs” which the shiftless sign up for are anything more than evolved chain letters that use a pyramid structure to promote? Meguesses over 90 percent of them.
Often when I read about clever thieves and fraudsters, I think to myself: “What a waste of human potential! If they are clever enough to rob a bank or steal $10 million from people with a scam, they most certainly could use their ingenuity on the up-and-up to accomplish the same or much more without facing a prison term.”
Use your creative juices to create real value. Stay clear of MLM schemes. They are insidious and seriously compromise your integrity and credibility. Don’t be fooled by those involved in such schemes that tell you they are making money hand over fist and money-making is easy. It’s a fools’ game. Honest fistfuls’ of money do not need smoke nor mirrors.
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