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Singapore's Sunshine Empire (2007): rebates paid from the next person's deposit, regulator warned, 20,000 people paid anyway
not sure how well known this one is outside singapore. company sold lifestyle packages around S$12,000 each, promised monthly rebates plus bonuses for recruiting. in october 2007 it took in about 21 million and paid out about 25 million, the math only works if recruitment never stops. the founder told the national newspaper he was better than warren buffett. the financial regulator put them on its investor alert list but the list carried no enforcement power, it was just a warning, and people kept joining because the early ones really were getting paid. white collar police raided their office in november 2007. about 20,000 people, close to S$190 million paid in.
the ending is the wild part, the liquidation only finished this june, 2026. victims ended with 28.1 cents per dollar of admitted claims, 18 and a half years after the raid. gazette notice: https://assets.egazette.gov.sg/2026/Government%20Gazette/Advertisements/NoticeofDividendSunshineEmpirePteLtd-cmpmfd.pdf
textbook pyramid mechanics with the receipts to prove it.
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Resource Roundup!
Welcome to **Resource Roundup Friday**, our designated weekly thread where creators can share original **anti-MLM content** — whether it’s a YouTube deep dive, TikTok breakdown, blog post, podcast episode, or even an investigative article you wrote.
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Can’t trust small talk with strangers anymore
I was coming out of the store a woman in her car said hey, “how are you doing?” I replied good thank you and kept walking thinking nothing of it assuming she’s just friendly. Then she was asking me what type of perfume I wear. And yelling some stuff about a perfume she’s selling while I was still walking to my car. She didn’t walk up to me with products or anything so I know what she was doing it’s so odd. It’s like a real life pop up ad. I don’t know if I can trust a stranger saying hi to me randomly anymore. You think you’re have a nice moment but it’s someone trying to sell you something.
https://redd.it/1w5k62d
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“Digital marketing”
Is there some kind of MLM digital marketing scam? I have a friend who is an SHAM. I’m pretty sure it’s involved in one of these. Lots of clearly scripted or AI written posts, lots of hashtags for digital marketing, posts where she wants people to respond in some particular way and she’ll send them information. Lots of sentiments of still figuring out,” mixed in with post about her family. What exactly is the MLM?
https://redd.it/1w5ftqb
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Thrifting find
https://redd.it/1w3g560
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Just a few testimonies (APLGO)
https://redd.it/1w4yixw
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Isn't that a show on TLC?
https://redd.it/1w4cq04
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is paperclip finance/the broker group llc an mlm?
from everything i’ve seen, i think they are but haven’t been able to find any information on them really. i have my second zoom meeting today for “onboarding”. i think they also want me to pay to get licensed, which is $199.
just wanted to see if anyone else has ever dealt with them.
https://redd.it/1w3lhjq
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Banking on death
https://redd.it/1w3cqpc
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Huns and their ‘food.’ Is that styrofoam on your paper plate? Can you not just enjoy the occasional pizza? And hun, you’re one of the reasons why.
https://redd.it/1w2hm9t
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Child bride leggings, anyone
https://redd.it/1w1gfpe
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I'm currently in the Landmark Forum...for now
/r/cults/comments/1w1ygc4/im_currently_in_the_landmark_forumfor_now/
https://redd.it/1w1ygrf
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I signed up and joined a High Ticket Sales Coaching program
• After quitting a job, the author joined "Millionaire Makers," a company advertised on Instagram that teaches "remote high ticket sales." This involves learning a script and pitching to warm leads who responded to the ad.
• The author, now actively calling leads, is concerned after research suggested it might be a pyramid scheme and seeks advice on the situation.
Im afraid Im in too deep, because Im technically already working for them pitching the product to new leads.
https://redd.it/1w1mjs6
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Bravenly is bringing back the product that keeps you “awake 42 hours straight,” in all of its “limited flavor” glory. Just in time for the month end frenzy.
https://redd.it/1w1knkg
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The only successful MLM…
I was talking with my wife about our hatred for MLM’s and how predatory they are, especially on poor people. It came to me that there actually has been one decently successful one and whoever made the pivot was genius. My barber and his wife got sucked into Herbalife back in the day like mid 2000’s and they went to the conferences and all that bs. At some point while I was in college I remember seeing the nutrition shops popping up and learned most of them got product from Herbalife. I moved back close to home and lo and behold my barber now owned a nutrition shop. The fad seems to have slowed down some but they sure did good while it was running.
Edit: are there any more that ever semi succeeded?
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bomb party in big doodoo
hi yall! i can’t cross post from the bp sidelines subreddit but go check out @matthewfoutz on tt and his most recent video about bp’s “genuine” stones if you follow bp or any of the mlm jewelry companies. yes yes we know it’s cheap costume jewelry, but they’ve been peddling this resin and plastic as “genuine” and even “lab created” when it’s not for too long.
https://redd.it/1w5qwqq
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Hunk of junk 1981 Amway extinguisher
https://redd.it/1w5msab
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Jetzt nervt schon der Klempner mit MWR Life & Travel
https://redd.it/1w5ig8p
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“No income is guaranteed.”
https://redd.it/1w58eee
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My mom joined an mlm and I need help on convincing her to leave.
Hey guys,
First time posting on this subreddit. Recently my mom (55) has fallen into the trap of being a pampered chef member. She got sucked into a vacuum scheme (pun not intended) 3 years ago too to "help her friend sell." I'm not entirely sure what happened there but all I know is that we have one of those vacuums.
Anyways, I told her that it was a scam, trying to tell her to do some Google research but she refuses to listen, saying her friend (her boss actually) can convince me that it isn't a scam. Although I'm worried her "friend" will try to recruit me. I'm hoping that it I send her some links to some videos about pampered chef being an mlm scam but also about mlm schemes being bad anyway.
I'm sure she wouldn't watch any but maybe she'll listen if I keep spamming her some good YouTube video links... She's bound to click and watch! 😆 (at least I hope so)
So any good videos that can talk show and tell about it would be great!
https://redd.it/1w52v16
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How can I get my friend out of amway/LTD?
TLDR: Friend tried recruiting me into Amway/LTD, want some advice on how I can possibly get her to see it’s a scam and leave without scaring her off.
For context, a female friend of mine messaged me out of the blue a couple weeks ago asking how I’ve been and asking to call. I called her and we caught up a little bit, then the conversation steered to how she’s had this business opportunity for financial freedom (it’s been a topic of discussion between us in the past, getting financially free and not having to worry about money). She says she’s made great connections with “top 1% people” and made great friendships and that she gets to travel to conferences and meetings with them, and that she’s cut off people that don’t have a similar mindset anymore. She seemed really happy and excited about it so when she brought up me joining the team I was open to it. Note that I was already a bit skeptical about it since a coworker from the past tried recruiting me into Primerica a few years ago, which I refused after doing a bit of research on it.
I agreed to at least meet with her and her “mentor” to “connect” at a local coffee shop. We met, he talked to me a bit about mindset and future goals and then asked if I could attend an event one night and i said sure why not, it didn’t cost me any money so I agreed. The meeting went how these types of MLM events usually go, not gonna go into it much it was pretty much your typical “quit your 9-5 job/trading time for money” talk for most of it promoting amway/LTD as a business opportunity to reach financial freedom without having to work for anyone. They tried making it seem like this was some rare opportunity and that we were all lucky to be in this event. That not everyone would get the privilege to make the team and that they were very selective. I imagine this is just a tactic to get as much new recruits as possible so I just sat and listened to the whole thing trying to understand what was really going on. After the event her and her mentor then scheduled another follow up meeting. Thing is after I left I did research on this amway/LTD stuff and it just confirmed what I was already skeptical of, being a MLM/borderline legal pyramid scheme where I’d end up just wasting tons of time and money for a dream they’re selling me, just to make the higher ups more money. I had another meeting today but I cancelled last minute with some bullshit excuse. After reading others experiences with this I obviously don’t want to be a part of this, but the issue is she already is, she’s been in this for the last couple months and it really seems like they’ve completely manipulated her into thinking this is the ticket to her dream life.
She’s a few years younger than me, just turned 20 when she told me she was first approached 2 months ago. I know she can be really naive and is inexperienced with stuff like this so it’s very clear to me it was very easy to manipulate her into all this and sell her this dream that amway can give her. The thing is I really don’t want to just ghost her and leave her in this mess, I genuinely want to get her out of this because I do care for her. What’s the best way to go about this? I’ve read that amway uplines really drill into your head that people outside the MLM are not to be trusted and have a “consumer” or employee mindset and to not listen to anyone but people in the team, so I feel like she’ll just brush me off or cut me off purely based on that. The big thing is I can tell she genuinely sees these people as her friends now, and maybe they are, obviously I can’t control her or make her do anything, but what if she’s just being used to make her uplines more money and I’m just here witnessing her get scammed? Anyone else been in this situation and has some advice as to what I should do next? Is it too late already?
https://redd.it/1w4nbmr
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You'll make new friends, ‘better’ friends. Things are going ‘so well’ at Bravenly, that Grimace & pals, have had to start a dropshipping side hustle.
https://redd.it/1w3cf96
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Beach Body pitch
Bruh. I’m in the ER right now at the VA Hospital because I did something to my hand and I needed to get it checked out. The ER doctor starts giving me a Beachbody pitch in the middle of it all. Seriously dude. Knock it the fuck off.
https://redd.it/1w2kljq
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A post from my FB account... I was in DEEP
https://redd.it/1w278rt
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Can anyone explain Hays Travel MLM?
Someone I know has signed up to be a home working travel consultant, based on a free sign-up offer.
They pay a monthly fee of around £60 for the software and earn commissions from selling holidays.
I’ve read that they’ll make the bulk of their money on recruiting more travel consultants, but i’m struggling to make an argument about how it’s bad because i don’t know enough.
Any help explaining how they’re being scammed would be a great help, thanks!
https://redd.it/1w20ufn
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Is Costco shilling for a MLM?
Lately my (limited) social media activity has been bombarding me with crappy AI ads for something called The Loaded Tea Shop, claiming they’re going to be doing regional popups in Costco stores. Yesterday, while buying a sink and 30 pounds of onions, like any other Costco shopper, I was visually assaulted by their Lisa Frank-hued tent next to the checkout lines. So yeah, they’re definitely in Costco stores.
Is this not just repackaged Herbalife? Their own website says they started as Herbalife distributors.
https://redd.it/1w1oy45
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BEWARE MONAT GLOBAL
I bought Monat Global products ONCE in 2022. I though I immediately canceled my subscription but apparently not. I guess I didn’t notice I still had an active “Flexship” order with them because it was going to my promotions folder in gmail I rarely check. I also DON’T EVEN HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT because I closed it shortly after I made that purchase in 2022 so I’ve never been charged again by them. UNTIL TODAY. They charged my Cash App card??! Again, I have no bank account and none that is associated with my Cash App card since I just don’t have one. How TF did they get my Cash App information?! It scares me how they were able to get that information 4 years later and charge my card. Has anyone else experienced this???
https://redd.it/1w1m2dk
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Community Notes for Every Enagic Rep I See
https://redd.it/1w10v5n
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You know what I noticed about MLMers?
They always talk about what they will have in the future, but never what they have right now. "I'm going to have a business!" "I'm gonna go on vacation in Tahiti!" "I'm going to be rich!"
A while back a bunch of bros from my work encountered me at the mall and they tried to get me to sign on to this MLM that sold energy drinks or something. They told me that I could make it big and get a mansion and a nice car. I refused to join bc even back then it sounded too good to be true, then the guy was like, "OP, you're gonna look really stupid driving that minivan when I roll up in my Lamborghini!"
My brother in Christ, you Do Not Have a Lamborghini
https://redd.it/1w0svla
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