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No literature list on MLM scams can be complete without Bridget Read's meticulously researched 2025 book "Little Bosses Everywhere".
by Hackbraten 25d ago
No literature list on MLM scams can be complete without Bridget Read's meticulously researched 2025 book "Little Bosses Everywhere".
- dackdel 25d agosound like you lead a cult called "MERLBE" make everyone read little bosses everywhere.
- WheelsAtLarge 24d agoMLMs have to be up there with the biggest scams, ever. My mother was scammed over and over under the guise of friendship. As a kid I remember there was very little money but there was always enough to buy another order of whatever. The ugliest part is that once you become a member you fall into the trap, you become part of the scam and become a scammer too. It's ultimately very sad once you learn it's a legal pyramid that eventually collapses and you're left holding the bag. And your "friends" led you to it.
- pjc50 24d agoI would like to add to the list the excellent history of frauds "Lying for Money", by Dan Davies.
- stonecharioteer 24d agoI was approached by people trying to get me into a pyramid scheme at least thrice in my life. One was a friend who got into it in high school and said I could get in on it too for 100 USD (~2004). Another was a random stranger I struck up a conversation with at a bookstore in around 2011. The last was an old boss, who attributes his drastic weight loss to a strange drug that he's peddling and says I can get in on. It's crazy. I was 17, 24 and 37 and all 3 times I knew there was something super suspicious about these and never engaged.
- aruggirello 22d agoA friend of mine was pulled into Amway and tried hard to pull me in, resulting in the end of our friendship.