Scam, scam, scam

[eiennihen]

I had my first scam interview yesterday. Apparently these are pretty common because my fiance attended one last year while he was looking for a job. The company I was asked to interview for was Global Solutions, but it turns out that the actual company is called Liquidity International, and Global Solutions is the name of their Austin office.

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[graywords]

One word.

GAGCHOKECOUGHGASP

読むだけで吐きそうだった。

[eiennihen]

Heheheh. That's exactly how I felt during the movie. ^^

[yoshie66]

Sounds like some of the "time share" seminars I've been to (where you purchase property and then rent it out to others). They always have these videos, showing you all these "faux" people who are having a ball in exotic locations with all this money from heaven. I went to one where they showed us this demo of a condo that was three floors. Afterwards, just out of curiosity, I asked how hard it would be to reserve one of those rooms. The lady at the counter laughed and said "Oh, that was just a demo. There aren't any rooms like that for owners." The way she said it so matter-of-factly.. it was shocking. And if I have to see just one more infomercial for the "buy & sell properties" tapes, I'm gonna scream.

I do have to say that I'm amazed that so many people are still using that pyramid scam and getting away with it. Why aren't the cops busting up these groups? It's so obvious what they are up to...

[eiennihen]

Why aren't the cops busting up these groups? It's so obvious what they are up to...

I was thinking the same thing. But I guess the companies are hard to trace and technically their actions aren't illegal. Also, the cops probably have better things to do like go after drug dealers and give out speeding tickets.

Pyramid scam

[frankencow]

Yeah, I've been dragged to a couple of those. And of course, both those people who did the dragging wound up making almost no money at all ;-)

Re: Pyramid scam

[eiennihen]

I was surprised to that one or two people actually stayed past the video segment of the seminar. Most of us got the hell out of there. I get the feeling that the people running the seminar were so desparate to make money that they'd tell us just about anything to get us to sign up. It's pathetic, really.

[rms_baltic]

well, not necessarily 'untested' products. as far as I remember, the notorious Herbalife included some latin-sounding names, which turned out to be the scientific names of plants that are available in traditional medicine, and are for sale at any drugstore.

i.e., the same product, sold at drugstores for 5 roubles ($0.2), is marketed as a miracle under its latin name for $20 -- 100x more expensive.

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Not long ago, the MLM vultures took to my favourite cybercafe, with all their pitching voices and idiotic cheerfulness. Fed up, I scared them off by loudly interrupting the presenter and revealing the scum as what it really is. They never showed up since then.

[eiennihen]

the notorious Herbalife included some latin-sounding names, which turned out to be the scientific names of plants that are available in traditional medicine, and are for sale at any drugstore.

Yeah, I think this company was trying to do the same thing with Aloe Vera. The lady making the sales pitch claimed that it had all these untested, untapped healing properties. Just another way to rip off the gullible.

We have Herbalife here, too. It's everywhere in Austin, and the recruiters usually prey on the poor, working-class immigrants who come over from Mexico. They have signs/advertisements in Spanish all over the poorer parts of town.

Agile Global Solutions/Liquidity International

[anonymous]

I just returned to work after walking out of the presentation. I suspected within the first few minutes what it was all about. I gave Heather to the (approximate) 20 minute point where she started into compensation before walking out. I debated long before just how rude I'd be and played out various scenarios in my head on what I should say if confronted during my departure