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USFIA Raided by SEC, FBI, etc. on 29-SEP-2015, assets frozen, company seized
Multiple news sources, including onsite witnesses, have reported that FBI, SEC, and several other agencies have raided USFIA on 9/29/2015 and froze its assets, and appointed a receiver to take over.San...
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USFIA Update: "bank accounts show apparently NO revenue" (since 2013), and more
Official SEC press release: SEC Halts $32 Million Scheme That Promised Riches From Amber MiningLATimes is a day late in reporting the Fed raid and shutdown of USFIA/Gemcoin, but apparently they...
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Vemma update: Vemma / BK Boreyko / Tom Alkazin said it's ALL affiliate's fault
Vemma, BK Boreyko, and Tom Alkazin each had filed response to FTC's case. From here on, it's clear what their strategy is:To all the YPR Vemma affiliates...IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT! (you deserved to be...
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Scam Hilarity: How Gemcoin Scammer "Interprets" the American Justice System...
In the interest of all Gemcoin sheeple or perp, Chinese or otherwise, this post will be bilingual.爲了大家的利益，珍寶幣是真是賤，讀者在中國或外國，以下中英雙文對比．Recently there were a post on Sina blog that claimed "there was no...
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Scam Tactics: Sell the Hype and the Opportunity, Ignore or minimize the...
Scams usually hook you by selling you the hype and how much money you can make (i.e. the opportunity), while minimize or ignore the reality (such as risk, market, etc.) and cost.I'll just go over some...
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Scam Basics: Do you "Google" your upline, the company leader, and so on?
Do you Google your own name as well as those people you know? Come on, everybody does. People who go on dates google each other's name, or even the photo, just to make sure they're not being...
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BREAKING NEWS: Jeunesse banned in Malaysia, website blocked at national level
According to users in Malaysia, as relayed to JusticeAlwaysLate on Facebook, any one attempted to access Jeunesse Global website (jeunesseglobal.com) from Malaysia is greeted with the following...
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Commentary: How MLM affects the current presidential campaigns
While politics is usually quite far from the world of multi-level marketing, presidential campaign is big enough that anything anybody ever did figures into the equation, and in this case, two of the...
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Scam Tactics: The Galileo Gambit
Does everyone remember who Galileo Galilei is? He's the one who taught heliocentrism (the sun is the center, not Earth) and was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church because heliocentrism ran counter...
View ArticlePSA: Victims of WCM777 and related fraud must file claim by November 9, 2015
If you were a victim of Phil Ming Xu's ponzi scheme WCM777 and its related entities, you need to gather up your paperwork ASAP and file a claim before November 9, 2015.This is the URL of the receiver’s...
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Scam Psychology: the echo chamber effect (and how it turns you into a recluse)
That's sheeple. Does that look familiar to you? (Photo credit: hermetic hermit)MLM is all about your "team", team spirit and camaraderie, don't let the team down, we'll be there for you, blah blah...
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Scam Psychology: Victim Mindset is all about asset recovery, not justice
JusticeAlwaysLate, a FB blogger in Malaysia who primarily blogs in Chinese / Cantonese, recently relayed a little anecdote which I thought was rather... illustrative of the victim mindset. The scam...
View ArticleScam Psychology: The Pressure to Excel and Conform (and the courage to turn...
People from all walks of life join MLMs, often without sufficient due diligence. Even if they did, they often convinced themselves (Semmelweiss Reflex) to suppress their own feelings of revulsion and...
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Scam Psychology: Misconstruing quote from Zig Ziglar about Positive Thinking
Every once in a while, you'll see some MLMer pull out this quote as a reaction to criticism:Positive thinking will let you do everything better better than negative thinking will. Remember, this is in...
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MLM Basics: Is there such thing as "good MLM"?
The MLM Skeptic has been asked repeatedly, "is _____ a good MLM?"The short answer is: I don't know.The longer answer is: I don't know. I can't do your due diligence for you, as I am not you.But perhaps...
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Scam Tactics: Attribute Transfer
Scammers want you to trust them, and they usually try to invoke something that we respect and revere, then use "attribute transfer" to get you to transfer the respect and reverence onto the scammers....
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Scam Psychology: Idiot's Guide to Idiocy... and how to avoid it
It is very often in scam psychology that the victim refused to accept that they have been victimized, and they often square off against the critics. However, here are some questions they should be...
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Breaking News / Woo Files: Nu Skin Taiwan head accused of illegally importing...
News from Taiwan via Malaysia, original Chinese and English translation provided. (Thanks to JusticeAlwaysLate for spreading this bit of news)台灣．新北市18日訊）在馬來西亞、新加坡和汶萊都設有分公司的著名直銷公司美商如新華茂（NU...
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How a MLM cult is like ISIS, and how to defeat both of them
A recent episode of NPR's Hidden Brain that talked about terrorism, and how does the psychology of radicalization work, got me thinking, as the cult psychology of ISIS shares many similarities with...
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What should you look forward to MLM and Direct Selling in 2016?
It is now 2016, and as usual, positive thinkers are already out hating my blog posts already.First reader comment of 2016 starts with:You loser ...obviously couldn't make it in any MLM's - most likely...
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