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MLM Basics: Why MLM (almost) never have a price advantage
Ever notice that the products in MLM cost way more than equivalent products elsewhere?doTerra essential oil... Intro kit is $27 for 15 mL of oil.However, Amazon sells 10X the oil for slightly lower...
View ArticleNews: BehindMLM is under Denial of Service Attack for several days now
BehindMLM is under Denial of Service Attack, where bad actors, controlling a swarm of hacked PC's, flood the server with traffic it cannot handle. The result is the website becomes unavailable.No one...
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Scam Tactics: Why do HYIPs compound DAILY?
Why do HYIPs compound daily?The answer is "habit loop"... The HYIPs are there to feed you false information to get you to form a habit... "trust us"Habit loop has three stepsCue -- the trigger to start...
View ArticleHerbalife's first post-FTC disclosure still uses funny math to manipulate...
Herbalife settled with the FTC in 2016 in exchange for FTC not calling the company a pyramid scheme outright. The settlement included a long series of accommodations and required disclosures, and the...
View ArticleCognitive Distortions, i.e. when your brain is lying to you
You can trust your brain... in general. You have to, since your brain controls everything. But there are occasions when your brain will lie to you. Not intentionally, but call it... "miswired" or...
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How to spot a suspicious Real Estate Listing
Someone brought this listing to Reddit /r/scams as it is suspicious as heck. It's a house listed in New Orleans, and they ONLY take cash.The listing is full of suspicious details, likeThe only agent...
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An LED light that cleans air? Nope, just marked up 10X LED bulbs
A company called "Pure-Light" claimed their TiO2 coated bulbs will clean the air......of these bacteria, viruses, mold, and pollutants. The air also gets deodorized as well since almost all odors are...
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Example of a bogus cryptocurrency opportunity: Ethtrade.club
There are tons of websites purported to make you money based on the latest trends, and the current trend is cryptocurrency, such as Ethereum.EthTrade claims to generate 20% ROI per month if you invest...
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Bad Propaganda: MLM trying cheap photoshop tricks on its gullible members? Or...
Spotted this over in /r/antimlm:Apparently someone took the photo fo Meghan Markle at her baptism a while back, photoshopped (tm) a cheap Herbalife plastic bottle into her hands (while she's walking...
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How will the California Supreme Court "Dynamex" decision affect MLM?
When California Supreme Court handed down the Dynamex decision on May 4th, 2018, people wonder if the "gig economy" is doomed, as the decision is likely to affect Uber and Lyft drivers, and potentially...
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Bad Propaganda: Meghan Markle and Homeopathy, really?
A tweet from Alberta Association of Naturopathic Doctors just came across my tweetstream:Uh, even that statement is wrong on many levels.It's Sussex, not EssexShe's a duchess, not a princess. But...
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Scam Spotting: Anatomy of a "free" premium headphones offer
Ever seen those offers: we're giving away (insert item) as a promotion, all you need to do is pay shipping and handling?Let's dissect one and see how it really works.Recently, someone brought this to...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Scam: How "Verification Code" Scam Works
If you post anything for sale on Craigslist, you can be unwittingly enlisted by a scammer to be an accomplice, even if you don't accept the offer.The scam usually goes like this.A) You list something...
View ArticleHow to Combat Falsehoods: It's NOT a matter of opinion or being neutral!
As a skeptic, it is often troubling to see the amount of bogosity available in public, much less the Internet, where anyone with some free time can offer advice, and many people just eat them up, with...
View ArticleScam Psychology: Engaging Antivaxxers: What I learned from them vs. Scheme...
Recently, I engaged a couple antivaxxers on Twitter. It was a learning experience. One just wants to talk about his conspiracy theory (There is no reason for the government to care about your health!)...
View ArticleMLM Genre Analysis: CBD products have HUGE risks not understood by participants
Some of the more recent MLMs have latched onto CBD, or cannabidiol as their next big thing, and several companies have started selling products based on CBD oil for topical and other uses. However,...
View ArticleBritish Columbia (Canada) Chiropractic Org Crack Down on Spurious Claims by...
You will often find that chiropractors claim to be able to treat everything from ADHD and Alzheimers to diabetes, infertility, all the way to Down's syndrome, and they are all over websites, blogs, and...
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Evil MLM: Revisionist History, Juice Plus Edition
Remember in the book 1984 by George Orwell, the government rewrites history when the policies change? "We've always been at war with Eastasia"? Turns out, MLM participants does that every day.Just the...
View ArticleScam Psychology: Bogus Science and Alternative Facts Redux
One of the ways scams and woo spread is by linking a famous person to it, never mind that famous person actually said the EXACT OPPOSITE.Recently, there was a Twitter debate when someone rehashed the...
View ArticleWould You Pay Someone to Commit Suicide? 13000 People did. Really.
According to a recently published paper, 13000 people paid over 1.4 million dollars to help 200 people commit suicide. Except they thought they were paying for zero-evidence treatment for desperate...
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