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Zamujasa posted:That book actually got posted in here at one point and it's so hosed up. I wish I could find it again. Oh poo poo, you meant the kids book. I did not expect that to be available online. BiggerBoat posted:He's not CLEARING $25,000 a year is the thing. And, yeah, their whole deal is to get it to where you get to be up on the STAGE and pretending to be successful. It's loving disgusting what they do and I can't believe people fall for it. Yeah, soon after that post I read that he was making $30 000 as an Emerald before taxes. Jesus Christ. I'm at the part where he's quitting and expecting it to go badly. I think my favorite insane moment was when Kerry loses his mind because Eric is "doing better" than him and starts the Amway Goon squad, complete with quick-drawing his gun from his fanny pack and pointing it at a fabric partition that has people on the other side of it 
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Dec 20, 2017 10:21
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I'm almost done the book. I'm at the part where he's been out for almost 6 months and is talking to other people who left. Aside from the horrific amount of harassment and weird poo poo like withholding the income he would have received from Amway, putting it in an account that he cannot access, then sending him letters that they're charging him I think the strangest part is how he found out that Zack had a secret recording studio that he used to copy the tapes and cut Dexter out of the profits. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so evil. Why are Zack and Amway so gung-ho about their victims getting their wives to stay at home and eventually quitting their jobs? It seems like having at least one person working a real job would be good to keep the money coming in. Same with when Kerry and Chris drove away all the new recruits with their aggressive insanity and Zack refused to replace them, even though John and Kathy were bringing in all the people/money- they prize unquestioning loyalty over making more money?
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Dec 20, 2017 23:01
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Just finished the book. I feel that he made great strides in tracking down people who Zack had employed but not treated very well and who could dish dirt on him... but that last metaphor was a bit of a doozy 
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Dec 21, 2017 02:28
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I know someone who is constantly rolling their car loans into new cars. They drive an unreliable car that costs twice as much as mine in terms of monthly payments
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Jan 1, 2018 00:28
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Car sales people get so angry when you try to "shop" them, aka trying to get a good deal and do some research and compare offers. Like, yelling at you angry.
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Jan 2, 2018 15:44
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Amway people have to buy anything they can from Amway, it's how they bleed their victims and cover themselves legally (by having a product). They sell stickers that your "friends" can put on your non Amway products when they visit.
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Jan 2, 2018 22:59
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Fake it till you make it is so drat dumb
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Jan 3, 2018 00:40
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Vinny the Shark posted:Just make sure you say "$10k net profit." Some of these MLMs can convince people they're making money by using terms like "sales volume of over $10 thousand!" or "generating downline revenue of thousands of dollars!" or some other vague bullshit. Sure, it won't make much of a difference anyway, but some MLMs actually do give checks out to people as a percentage of how much the distributor purchased and how many people in the distributor's downline purchased. For instance, you and your downline might have bought $2000 worth of merchandise that month, and you get maybe 1% of that- $20 check. Of course, you're still spending hundreds of dollars a month on merchandise just to get that $20 check, and so is everyone below you. My friend I mentioned earlier with Amway/Team showed me a check from the company for $6 and some change. I can't imagine how much he was spending to get that check, not to mention all the seminars and training materials he was buying as well. One of the big things the author of Merchants of Deception stressed was that talking to others ("Cross Streaming" or something?) was 100% against the rules because it contaminated the streams... the way one upstream ran their downstream might be different than how another does it, so it just creates confusion and resentment. Another way of seeing that would be that they wanted the different sects of their cult to remain clueless and not be able to compare notes. Over the years the author began to realize that some upstreams gave breaks for some things that others didn't, 15% off coupons basically, and it was A Big Deal. How is the author of MoD doing these days? I tried to look his name up, but all I found was an obituary for someone with his name from 2012...
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Jan 15, 2018 11:02
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I have so many people on my Facebook that repost these things. I know some of them know that it's fake, but they just can't risk it.
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Jan 16, 2018 11:55
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Netflix has a series called "Dirty Money" and the second episode is about Scott Tucker, a guy who created a Payday Loan company that was even scummier and blatantly illegal than most. He's super salty that it's possible that he'll be going to jail and goes on and on about how it's unfair that a self made man who never had anyone to rely on is being punished by the big bad government and comes across as a genuine sociopath. His business worked by pretending to be a Native American business which didn't need to follow the laws other Payday Loan places had to... he was sentenced to 16 years a few weeks ago lol
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Jan 28, 2018 17:48
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Could be! I finished the episode, the anger at the goverment from the guy and his lawyer (who also ended up going to jail) is pathetic and their claims that the goverment are the REAL criminals is hilarious. They never show any self reflection on how their choices led to their situations, just anger that they weren’t allowed to get away with their crimes. Tucker’s brother killed himself instead of standing trial and going to jail, he and an employee blame the government for his death, of course.
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Jan 28, 2018 20:23
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The other day I almost clicked on an email from PaypaI That's a capital "i", not a lowercase "L"
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Mar 7, 2018 10:45
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I was shocked this morning when I had an email from Apple with a receipt for my recent purchases that listed them in the email itself, rather than an email from AppIe (uppercase "i") with a list of my recent purchaseds asking me to download a PDF
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May 9, 2018 11:02
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I should have clarified- I actually did make purchases from Apple, and it was an email confirming it. Usually my contact is with AppIe and it's scams
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May 10, 2018 21:05
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I'm pretty sure that when I check my email on my phone it doesn't show the complete email address, only the first few characters, so if you're in a hurry or just not paying attention you might just assume it's legit. Also, it works because a lot of people use Apple Store or whatever. I got one that said my account was locked and I need to click this link to unlock it, it was a scam. Apple says the easiest way to tell is if the email from "Apple" uses your name and knows specifically what you've purchased recently.
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May 13, 2018 14:50
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I buy the Sobey's brand Mach 3 blades for ~$1.50 (on sale, which is semi often) to $2.00 a blade and keep a few old Fusion blades around because the single blade is much better for getting under my nose and lip
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Jul 16, 2018 10:24
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When I read that I read it as the accused blaming the FBI for 9/11
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Aug 4, 2018 17:30
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Yikes
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Aug 19, 2018 21:36
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My phone is exclusively used for texting, Fortnite, and calling my grandmother. I never pick up when I get a call from a non contact and only call back if a human leaves me a voicemail. Scammers ruined phones. Edit: Did you guys talk about Ticketmaster yet? I hope this destroys their company. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Sep 23, 2018 |
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Sep 23, 2018 14:39
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It sounds like it's basically the Self Checkout of phone scams. If you have one lady with a slight French accent attending to 10 different semi automatic calls intervening when the computer gets confused then you will increase your illegal cash flow.
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Oct 3, 2018 10:55
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MightyJoe36 posted:I was part of the big data breach that let out millions of SSNs of retired DoD personnel. As a result someone filed a bogus tax return using my info. For four years now I have needed a PIN from the IRS to file my tax return. Someone explain the scam here for me.
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Mar 19, 2019 17:18
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We just had a kid and my wife got a call from a financial group she agreed to give her info to when signing up for free offers or whatever. The call is from a legit organization that appears to promise you the world when setting up an education plan but has horrendous reviews online ranging from “outrageous fees eat up any gains” to “they promised all fees would be returned as a lump sum at the end but they never deliver”. The calls seem to be laser targeted for sleep new deprived parents/ lonely new moms and my wife was freaked out by how happy she was to talk to another woman who showed interest on the phone. We cancelled the information session that had been set up.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:24
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shame on an IGA posted:yeah somebody pulled this one on my dentist a couple years ago, once they start driving to the sheriffs office and freaking out proper the caller offers to take a bribe, sends the victim to walmart and they successfully took her for $5k of apple gift cards over the phone. This is what I figured would happen. There isn’t a lot of originality in these scams and keeping the victim on the line is common for the Walmart ones.
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Jul 31, 2022 07:01
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The person was unlikely to be in the same country, let alone city
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Jul 31, 2022 13:42
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I hate the concept of Uber but hate taxis more
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Aug 14, 2022 12:51
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Our local taxi companies have radio ads that advertise “like Uber but not as good” modern features I don’t use them often but if I did it would still be Uber
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Aug 14, 2022 19:04
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I watch it now for Baby Einstein on my tv and there are five minute commercial tv shows for horse Bratz or something and sometimes fifteen I think they are designed for parents to put on and walk away from, so the kid is just absorbing commercials? Yt Premium is $12/ mth here, screw that
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Aug 22, 2022 23:40
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I found out that Baby Einstein was a complete crock of poo poo lol
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Aug 25, 2022 05:34
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I read a book a few years ago by a man who worked as an intermediate between North American/ European businesses and Chinese factories and his job was basically to know about how sketchy business people are and do his best to keep quality up for as long as possible. I wish I could remember the name of it, but it was a fantastic read for those interested in cons/ scams
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Aug 28, 2022 14:01
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JohnCompany posted:Poorly Made in China, or are there more of them? Yep, that’s it. His description of Quality Fade was great, though his broad descriptions of the Chinese people’s way of thinking (like in the broken toilet story) does not sit right with me.
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Aug 28, 2022 22:48
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“Here is a thing you didn’t ask for but we’ll charge you a premium for if you touch it” is Hotel Mini Bar level of scam, which seems like a school yard lawyer type logic, which is why hotel mini bars are dying out
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Aug 31, 2022 22:53
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I lost my grad ring and wedding band, so my wife contacted the local radio station and they put it on their Facebook page. Almost immediately I heard from someone saying he found them, but it set off alarms, so I asked for pics. No response.
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Sep 4, 2022 17:46
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I received another text message from the number that said they found my missing ring… this time they told me they had found my dog. I played along this time and asked how I could get the dog back and they replied:quote:I don't know if u are real. Give me ur cell number will send u a 6 digit code tell me the code then you are real Is this some kind of two factor scam?
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Sep 5, 2022 08:59
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I am grateful my legs work *leaves*
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Sep 20, 2022 00:12
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What the fuckkkkkkk ?
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Sep 21, 2022 00:26
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I went for being proud that I spent stupid amounts of time reading as d writing helpful reviews and now I just look at pictures and roll the dice I’m way better at demanding refunds now though. Mods please change my name to a Professor Karen
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Sep 22, 2022 22:45
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Etsy got bad fast too and everyone good abandoned it Ironically eBay is pretty good these days
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Sep 23, 2022 00:28
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I forget if I mentioned it but my wife cancelled her Sirius and now they are offering it to her for free for months at a time Offers so good sounding that they are Super sketchy
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Coward
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