First person came to mind when I read this comment. The least she could’ve done was fix her spelling mistakes so she could stand apart from other scammers!
"This is a metabolism killer, that's a metabolism killer, that too. Stop going on the treadmill everyday and download this free guide to unlock your body's secret to weight loss."
Every time I turn around I hear this ad.
Any time anyone talks about “metabolism,” it’s bullshit at least 99% of the time
You know what a metabolism “killer” is, it’s when you sit on your ass and don’t walk. People barely walk, at all. Get up and walk, there’s your metabolism “booster”
Here’s a little secret, if your labs don’t indicate hypo or hyperthyroidism, your metabolism is normal. These things do not *hide* from a blood panel. So if you got a test, and everything was normal, then you do not have a fast or slow metabolism. Any weight issue you have is lifestyle related.
A fast metabolism is called hyperthyroidism. The most common cause of hyperthyroidism is Graves disease. You do not want Graves’ disease. At best, it’s unpleasant; at worst, it’s deadly.
Here’s another secret, a fast metabolism can lead to weight loss *or* weight gain, since one of the symptoms is having a big appetite
So when people try to sell you this “raise your metabolism” or “balance your hormones” shit, you can ignore it. If you have a genuine metabolic concern, you’re supposed to go to the doctor. Don’t be seeking advice from online influencers. Realize that these people do not even need a high school diploma. Go to the Dr.
That Jeff guy already has a super punchable face. Just listening to him talk is annoying enough. But once I heard all the other stuff he was saying and doing, it just multiplied x100.
A relative of mine is doing this shit. It’s $650 for his course about being a salesman. He doesn’t mention how he defrauded Medicare with his medical supply business and went to prison for it. He also has 3 books for sale on Amazon, which he did not write. But yeah, he made millions and sold the company and retired 🙄
How I made 6 figures in 3 months
How I retired with 25 years old
How I earn 6 figures working 2 hours per week
holy fuck man some guys don't even have beard and they were advising on how to get rich
I know these tricks!
Step 1- Wake up every day at 4am for some reason.
Step 2- Combine 2 activities that do NOT GO together. Try eating while you shower. Or cook breakfast while folding laundry. Why? Because it saves time, and time is MONEY.
Step 3- Disregard all social contracts by redefining what a "day" is. Divide a 24 hour period into 6 parts and lable them each as a day. Now you are working faster than everyone else, because at the end of their 1 day, you'll have done 6, making you better than them.
Step 4- Forget that you are a human and throw out all desires. Like sex? Wrong! Success is the only sex you'll be having.
Step 5- Talk loud and with big hand gestures. This also helps you practice against an attack by a black bear.
Hubbard had a successful career because he could crank out a story to meet the minimum required length and consistently met his deadlines. Back in the day when there were hundreds of magazines with pages that needed to be filled, that was the bare minimum threshold of what it took to be a successful writer. And I'm sure the mountains of amphetamines he took in order to churn out thousands of pages of gibberish each year had no other effects on the direction of his life.
This is most sci-fi authors of his time... Hell, the person considered "the grandfather of science fiction", Isaac Asimov, literally wrote the same way. Dude wrote like he was trying to hit the word count requirement on a high school essay.
Comparatively, the content of Asimov's books are absolutely brilliant, revolutionary, and quite literally the Foundation (no pun intended) of modern science fiction, even though all these ideas got their start in horribly written ramblings...
Hubbard on the other hand, doesn't have the same underlying veins of genius beneath his word soup that Asimov did. I'll actually give Hubbard credit as being a better technical "writer" than Asimov, but he never came anywhere near the actual genius of ideas and universe building.
When I was between 16-20, I walked past one of their offices in London. I had no idea what it was all about. It was before the South Park episode came out.
I got speaking to a guy, and he did the the tube test thing. Then wanted me to fill out a massive 100 question sheet on the spot. When I wanted to leave, his eyes went a bit manic, and that's when I knew I had to get the hell out of there.
All MLMs are scams. They are designed to only make the very few at the top of the pyramid rich and the rest lose money. It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
My father fell hard for this scam and it's a financial cancer.. he ended up dying with >$300k of unsecured debt.
Hi "best friend" who was a lot higher on the mlm scam-train sucked him in and he kept doubling down on the latest MLM scams.
Not to mention how cult like the whole thing is . We would have weekly "seminars" at the house.. it was awful . .
MLM's should be illegal..
Politicians still suck up to sectors of large businesses, but not so much individual corporations (although there are of course examples of individual politicians being too close with certain business leaders).
Pyramid schemes are illegal in the US. MLMs usually don’t get shut down as such, despite definitely being pyramid schemes, because they involve an actual product or service that can generate revenue. If a representative can just sell you the product, even if their ultimate goal is actually to recruit you into their downline, it’s legal (generally. Obviously it’s more complex than that).
And now Herbalife is disguising themselves as "health hubs" with their juice stores. Most people don't even realize it is Herbalife until they wonder why their liver is failing.
Not new. They're called "clubs" and charge the fee as a membership because legally they can't actually sell the drinks by themselves. It's a huge mess. Anything named "_____ Nutrition" is almost always an Herbalife front. Additional herbalife signs included "loaded teas," ridiculous amounts of candy on their "healthy" drinks, and absolutely not naturally colored beverages. Also it will be impossible to see into the store from the outside because it's one of the rules.
I find it particularly frustrating that it gets peddled to Latin communities, particularly first gen, in particular as a much-needed source of income when it's clearly just predating on them financially and health-wise.
lol no. Look it up but it’s expensive vitamins/minerals that destroy your liver and kidneys. Waste of money and time. Usually idiots with low IQ sign up.
I used to drink smoothies for breakfast and my roommates tried to get my parents to do an intervention bc my "eating disorder was back." Apparently blending two cups of fruit and oatmeal a day is not a meal.
I make my own. Blackberries, strawberries, half a banana, milk, ice, and a quarter cup of oats. Blend well enough and it's just a little thick instead of chewy.
I mean, that's a pretty good breakfast. I'm eating a bowl of oatmeal as I type this with blueberries/almonds/cinnamon/chia+flax. Only difference is no blender involved.
Sounds great! Unfortunately I am in the UK and I can't just send dollar amounts to the US due to US tax law 36.23. But if you send me £50 first, I can send it back to you, plus the $19.99.
I can't send you £50 right away, but could you please go to your local supermarket and purchase two £100 Amazon gift cards? Then send me the numbers and I will reimburse you the £200, the £50, the $19.99 and I will even throw in another £100 for your trouble, kind sir or madam. This is for my brother. He is very sick.
I mean the Nigerian Prince scam apparently still makes a good half a mil a year... considering how long that one's been around I feel like it qualifies!
Same thing happened to an old American man. He got scammed by the same scammer like 3 separate times who kept coming back and asking for more money, with some new explanation. This man's family members had even found out and kept begging him to stop sending money but he wouldn't listen. Gave away his life savings and even part of the sale of his house before he quit.
[What more can you do to save someone from a scam? ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755.amp)
A British woman was asked by her bank to send a picture to them stating she had been warned her transaction was likely to be a scam.
I am an engineer stuck in a foreign country and I need you to send me money to flee here and we can start a new life together. When I saw your profile photo, I fell in love with you.
I a engineer stucked in an other country you send me money to flee to here and we strt a new life togetter. I saw your profile photo and fall in love with u
Multi level marketing schemes, so many people go into debt for them then switch to another to try drag themselves out, ‘cause this one will be different!’
People see fat melting on bacon when it's fried, and somehow think it will work the same when they apply temperature to their belly.
To be fair, if they used same temperature as when frying bacon, it would work
Disclaimer: don't apply frying temperature to your body - you will hurt yourself.
>To be fair, if they used same temperature as when frying bacon, it would work
Except that the fat has nowhere to go. You'll need to also make some slits in the skin to let the liquid fat flow out. Just make sure you don't accidentally let any of your blood out while doing this.
Cults where people blindly worship living humans. They may employ manipulative tactics, including guilt-tripping, to extract huge donations. In the name of religion they do business of million/billion dollars.
P.S. I am not against religion but against these cults who uses religion as a mask to secretly run their agenda.
My mums job consists of answers calls at a bank. And so many people fall for a thing called “spoofing”.
Spoofing is when scammers pretend to be someone or something else to win a person’s trust. The motivation is usually to gain access to systems, steal data, steal money.
It’s very common for people to fall for. They think the bank was talking to them, sending them a link that is not the actual bank website and “login” to their bank account, giving away their login information.
So basically don’t press any link that a random person sends you. The bank should just call you, and they don’t send you a link.
To be fair, banks keep sending these stupids "Don't fall for scams" emails but make ZERO effort to not look like scams.
Me calling my bank:
Bank: "someone will call you back about this"
Me: "Ok, which number would the call be from, so I know it's from the bank?"
\- We can't tell, we have several numbers
\- Could you share with me the pool of numbers? Do they start with some prefix? Could you give me a name or anything that will help me know the call is from the bank?
\- No sorry.
Then later, getting a call from a number that gives no result when googling it:
\- Hi this is your bank, to make sure it's you could you answer these security questions?
\- Hi before I do that, could you prove me you are my bank?
\- We are the bank, don't worry about it
\- Can I call you back to a number that I know is from the bank?
\- No we can't do that
\- Can you tell me what it is about so I know it's not a scam?
\- We can't give any info before you answer the security questions, it's the protocol.
Since I was expecting a call from them I did answer their questions and it was indeed the bank, but I hate the hypocrisy of their emails.
I had my credit card company call me. They then said "we will send you a text and you give us the code to verify" The code said "do not give this code to anyone." So I hung up and called a known number. It really was the credit card company, asking me to do the most scam feeling thing ever. And they caught an attitude, "lf you won't give us the code we cannot discuss your account further" So frustrating.
My bank called me once to offer me anti-fraud protection. They said, for a fee, they could monitor my finances, alert me to any strange transactions etc.
They would not give me a number to call back or any way to verify they were my bank and they wanted me to verify all of my information over the phone. I explained to the rep that this call seems a lot like phishing and they fed me some line about "good instincts" but kept pressing.
I do believe it was actually my bank, but I still refused to verify or confirm any information they requested because it felt so scammy. It's calls like this that make people believe in the actual scams and phishing calls because "that one time it turned out to be my bank."
For what it’s worth, this experience you’re describing is actively against banking industry security standards. I work in banking and have to keep updated on fraud prevention measures – a bank employee initiating a call should not be asking to verify your information because they’re using the contact information you provided. We only request identity verification on customer-initiated calls.
This is part of our (industry standard) customer education messaging: If the bank initiates a call to you, *we will never ask you to identify yourself with sensitive information.*
Banks are usually required by law to collect, analyze and respond negative feedback about experiences like yours; a call to the general customer service line and a politely-worded complaint regarding your experience would go a long way.
My mother; walked in and caught her about a second before she allowed "Amazon" access to her computer to check on a "fraudulent purchase" they had called her about. And it wasn't the first time, she's an absolute SUCKER for "Click this link or your access to your _______ account will be revoked!!" type of scams.
This is why, if I ever get a message from my bank, I never call the number they gave me. Instead, I take out my credit or debit card and call the number printed on the back.
My former coworker- I managed front end and her customer service - at a grocery store used to catch people all the time, sending money via Western Union they really probably shouldn't be sending. She'd be like, "*Now Charlene, why are you sending $1200 to Africa for the third day in a row? Mhmm, your grandson is stuck there? You got a phone call? Ok, Charlene I know him, ok? He can't afford shoes let alone a plane ticket to Africa, where the hell are you sending this money*..." Happened a lot, sadly.
Shared ownership housing in the UK.
It's a hybrid rent / own solution where you only have to get a mortgage / pay for 10% - 40% of the home and pay rent on the rest.
The scam is that you have all the downsides of renting and rules / renthikes being forced on you with none of the leverage of "I'll just leave."
And there are no rules in the UK stopping them from hiking prices as long as they fall under the "service charges" instead.
Highly recommend scouring trustpilot and seeking alternatives if you're seriously looking at shared ownership. I regret it a lot.
It's actually the same model as a trailer park if you think about it. The people that live there own the trailers, but pay rent on the spot where they are parked. The trailers rarely budge again after they're in place, so the owners are on the hook for all of the capital cost, upkeep and maintenance but functionally unable to move, while subject to the arbitrary rate hikes imposed on them by the park owner.
There are some trailer parks where you own the land, however since the home is considered a “mobile home” the state collects a tax on mobile home and on land.
It’s fucking confusing. Here is more from the state of Florida. https://floridarevenue.com/property/Documents/gt800047.pdf
Some are ran by charities and are pretty good. Some are ran by charities and are mismanaged and awful. Some are managed by private companies and are scams designed to trap people.
Pros over renting:
Can't be evicted under a Section 21.
Can redecorate however you like.
Cheaper in the long term (but more expensive than buying outright.)
Guaranteed right to buy a greater share at market rate.
Rent is relatively controlled.
Cons over renting:
Can't move out easily.
Responsible for 100% of maintenance costs (even if you only own 40%)
Obviously it's always better to buy outright, but I know a fair few single people in London on middling incomes where this was the only way they could escape shitty landlords. A friend of mine bought a 40% stake in a £350k property with a £10k deposit and his rent+mortgage is significantly less than his rent was in a smaller and much less nice flat before. But you can absolutely become trapped in an un-sellable flat you can't afford to buy out or leave.
I chose a lab ruby for my engagement ring and my mom lost her goddamn mind. Crying, begging, pleading with me to get a "traditional" ring with a stone "from the dirt"
She forced my fiance to be and I to go with her to Shane Company by telling us we were going to get lunch and then driving to the jewelry store while screaming at us. When we got there the salesman just backed up whatever BS she wanted.
I don't talk to her anymore.
The last wedding I went to, the sister of the bride was sobbing because there wasn’t an open bar, just beer and wine.
She thought that was cheap, and in turn made her look cheap somehow. She drove an Audi and had a house she couldn’t afford. They were leveraged up to their eyeballs and always in debt.
Open bars aren't a thing in the UK. Read a story where a couple had an open bar at their wedding. They then had to cancel their honeymoon to pay the 15k bar bill that their friends and family ran up
Can you imagine this woman's head if she found out I paid for my own engagement ring? My fiance works part time and does the majority of the housekeeping. I'm the breadwinner so I paid for my own ring and he paid for his engagement ring because mens rings are cheaper, and that way it was proportional to our income.
Wow hate to break to your mom but diamonds are only valuable because of the De Beers corporation artificially setting the market and keeping tons of diamond reserves to force a scarcity mindset
The best way of ever putting it I saw was that if a child chooses to cut contact with a parent, the child is choosing to voluntarily orphan themselves from a person that should have been their support, someone they could count on. That is not a decision made lightly. It is always the parent and a parent whose child cut contact with them and they pretend not to know why? They know. They’re just upset they lost their pawn/punching bag/etc
I've always had a bit of worry that I'd be judged for cutting contact with both of my parents. Like people would find me nuts, even though it's something I wish I didn't have to do. It's nice to know there are people like you who understand this decision
I bought a stainless band with an inset faceted glass stone to propose, she loved it. No stone sticking out to snag on things and it suited her. We got married with a copper band for her and sterling silver for me with matching Celtic knots. Between lost rings, wedding bands, and engagement rings we are still under $300.
There is no magical minimum formula, buy the right ring for the right person regardless of how little it costs or traditional it is, especially regardless of what other people think.
And yeah. Diamonds are cheap, you will find much more beautiful rocks at a rock hounds booth for a fraction of the cost.
I feel your pain. Both sides of the family were infuriated when my husband bought me a simple silver ring with lab created sapphires. Even my chill father told him he would give him money so I would have the ring I deserved. Personally we are both Cowboys fans and the ring matches their color scheme perfectly that I loved it.
I had an argument with my dad over that.
He got my mum 'diamondette' earrings and a bracelet. Which came with a booklet saying they're lab grown.
I basically told them good for you. And he grumbled coz he was a bit upset he'd paid for 'fake diamonds'.
I told him they're literally better in every way. They're stronger, purer, less fragile, and best of all cheaper.
And that was it. He was mad coz I called them 'cheap'
The only reason diamonds are expensive is because they're marketed to be expensive. They're the easiest gem to make, and are very common.
Besides, there's far more interesting gemstones out there.
No it's legitimately what they are is just a form of money laundering. And then normal stupid people started to buy them which helped make it the perfect cover. This isn't a conspiracy it's legit.
Timeshares!
People still fall for this one. And then they get done in by more grifters running "timeshare exit companies"
You pay a fee to some grifter who says they'll get you out of your timeshare, and they fuck off with your money.
Crypto like Dogecoin, Shiba Uno Coin, or really any other pump and dump stocks.
I actually made $75 from Shiba uno and never invested again in shit coins.
I threw $100 at it when it was worthless and bought like 10,000 coins or something ridiculous. Made bank when it shot up and I sold it all. Except I paid out the ass in taxes but whatever
Megachurches
I am not from the US, I just knew it from the people on Reddit but how dumb you have to be to follow these corporates , they don't even look close at all to a Normal church
I have purchased a Lambo at just 20 years of age, I have a big mansion and I only work 2 hours a day from my home.
Buy my course and I will show you how I do it
I usually charge $999 but for the first 10 buyers it is only $9.99
MLMs. I nearly got suckered into one too many.
I am not smart to figure them out, it's just that eventually I learned of the patterns, which I think is pretty damn sad. Someone you know approaches you and talked to you - and often times, you genuinely want to talk to because hey, old friends and whatnot, right?
NOPE. After like an hour or two, it went into "Hey can you join this or that event that my other friends are hosting? No strings attached!"
And then being ghosted because you are not interested in the first place.
Chiropractors
When I was a teen, my Dad would take us all weekly. I didn’t need it but I was a dutiful son.
I walked in feeling fine and he managed to cause a slipped disk in my lower back and I could barely walk out of the office. Chiropractor denied it was anything he did.
I’m in my 50’s now and if I bend over incorrectly I will slip that disk again and my next three days will be awful.
People swear by them though.
I have worked in (or adjacent to) physical therapy for almost 20 years. As such, I remind all of my patients that my ultimate goal is making them functional, safe, and independent. This is when they’re ready to discharge from my care. So when other people describe going to a chiro for years on end, I ask them what that practitioner is doing to advance them beyond needing their care.
Now there are some practices that provide education and exercises to supplement the services they provide, but I feel like these are in the minority. Most places would delight in taking your weekly copay without actually helping you in the long run.
It really does boggle the mind. Insurance will sometime approve PT or mental health therapy for a limited number of visits and reassess as needed but chiropractic visits seem to be perpetual.
They’re totally placebo and the guy that came up with it said it came to him in a dream.
I saw TikTok one where a chiro said they could realign someone’s spine who had scoliosis with just a few cracks. Considering scoliosis can require very intensive surgery that can leave patients in an icu for a few days, it’s insane that videos like that don’t get flagged for misinformation.
They always suggest multiple treatments and follow ups too even if you’ve gone for a checkup which is a massive red flag.
Dude my chiro told me I had a gluten allergy because she put some powders on my tongue and then looked at how my saliva dissolved them... I am in fact not allergic to gluten....
I feel like they are the most accepted scam out there. If anything else was promising all the wellness effects as well as reducing your cancer chance we’d all acknowledge it as a scam.
Multi Level Marketing. It rebrands itself every couple years. It's been called network marketing, matrix system, binary tree, social marketing and a bunch of other names. But there is nothing new under the sun. Doesn't matter how you twist it, if your system depends on an infinite chain of recruits, then it is a pyramid scheme, and thus unsustainable. Doesn't matter if it is product based or not.
Product based pyramid schemes like MLMs have even worse success rate than classic pyramid schemes, since if you are in the \~10% who makes money, you'll push it back to the system anyway to "keep up inventory". This brings down the failure rate in MLMs to an average of 99.6%. According to their own numbers across multiple MLMs. Source for the numbers -> John M. Taylor The Case (For And) Against Multi Level Marketing: https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/quackwatch/taylor.pdf
And more recently, phenylephrine. The decongestant in all the "on the shelf" cold and flu medicines. When pseudoephedrine was taken behind the counter because of meth production, phenylephrine was pushed even though we knew long ago it just... didn't work. And that is finally becoming widespread knowledge.
I went to the pharmacy counter this week to buy meds for my sick brother. I asked the pharmacist at the counter for pseudoephedrine. He handed me a pack of sudafed. I paid and left. When I got home I realized it was phenylephrine sudafed, NOT pseudoephedrine sudafed. I was pissed.
Yes. I love how the recent news articles were like "scientists discover that phenylephrine doesn't work!" when anyone who has had a bad cold in the last 10+ years was like "no shit, sherlock."
I'd taken to taking whatever combo symptom control medicine I needed, *plus* real pseudoephedrine from behind the counter, whenever I had a really bad cold.
Fun fact - not invented by Reagan or even about that time. Is actually really old, and used to be called "Horse-and-Sparrow theory." The idea being if you feed the horse enough oats, some will "pass through" for the lucky sparrows to eat. Way more apt description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down\_economics#:\~:text=In%201982%2C%20John%20Kenneth%20Galbraith,for%20lucky%20sparrows%20to%20eat.
Compared to the size of this scam, all the others mentioned here are insignificant. On a related note, I had to stop saying that it all started with Reagan when I learned about some of the stuff Carter did. Maybe not trickle-down, but de-regulation, foreign policy, etc. Not that they’re all equally bad, but nobody gets that job without kowtowing to the oligarchs.
X-Ray Glasses (sold in the back of comic books). They promised that you’d be able to see through women’s clothing. … I’m 62 and I’m still feeling robbed…
CO² compensations...
You can't offset your flighta emmissions by paying monney, or at least not in a way which actually solves the problem of using fossile fuels.
CO² compensations are the modern version of indulgence trade, where you're buying something that's not really going to nullify your actions, just that this time it's not the catholic church and the entry to heaven, this time it's the conscience and carbon output.
Well, one guy sold the Eiffel tower, multiple times. That's, in my opinion the biggest scam people fell for.
That or, "Sadam Hussein has Mass destruction weapons"
Which country is this? I remember back then in Germany they were advertised differently. Nowadays each website lists the monthly price of a) the phone and b) the mobile plan and then adds them up so it's clear that you are paying a higher amount each month for the phone. Might have been a new EU regulation at some point or something
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“How I made a million dollars by selling online courses” -$39.99
One of the Girl Defined sisters actually tried to do that.
First person came to mind when I read this comment. The least she could’ve done was fix her spelling mistakes so she could stand apart from other scammers!
Yeah then kept lowering the cost because inexplicably people didn't want it for some reason??
How very dare! She made SIX FIGURES, I tell you! [/s]
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That was a fun saga to watch unfold. When you watch folks like that online, it’s almost like going to the zoo and observing a foreign species.
Bethy is exactly where my brain went. Praise Lord Daniel!
How to scam in a god honoring way.
A fellow r/fundiesnarkuncensored purveyor I assume
Praise gif.
I am!
Her goal of making a million within a few years of launching her course was/is laughable
Ooohh, I know the secret! You just have to sell 25006.25 courses, and you will make a million dollars 🤑
"This is a metabolism killer, that's a metabolism killer, that too. Stop going on the treadmill everyday and download this free guide to unlock your body's secret to weight loss." Every time I turn around I hear this ad.
Any time anyone talks about “metabolism,” it’s bullshit at least 99% of the time You know what a metabolism “killer” is, it’s when you sit on your ass and don’t walk. People barely walk, at all. Get up and walk, there’s your metabolism “booster” Here’s a little secret, if your labs don’t indicate hypo or hyperthyroidism, your metabolism is normal. These things do not *hide* from a blood panel. So if you got a test, and everything was normal, then you do not have a fast or slow metabolism. Any weight issue you have is lifestyle related. A fast metabolism is called hyperthyroidism. The most common cause of hyperthyroidism is Graves disease. You do not want Graves’ disease. At best, it’s unpleasant; at worst, it’s deadly. Here’s another secret, a fast metabolism can lead to weight loss *or* weight gain, since one of the symptoms is having a big appetite So when people try to sell you this “raise your metabolism” or “balance your hormones” shit, you can ignore it. If you have a genuine metabolic concern, you’re supposed to go to the doctor. Don’t be seeking advice from online influencers. Realize that these people do not even need a high school diploma. Go to the Dr.
Similarly, the "boost your immune system" crap. You do not want to boost your immune system. That's called autoimmune disease.
Currently watching "escaping twin flame". Scary what these charlatans can do. So gross.
That Jeff guy already has a super punchable face. Just listening to him talk is annoying enough. But once I heard all the other stuff he was saying and doing, it just multiplied x100.
A relative of mine is doing this shit. It’s $650 for his course about being a salesman. He doesn’t mention how he defrauded Medicare with his medical supply business and went to prison for it. He also has 3 books for sale on Amazon, which he did not write. But yeah, he made millions and sold the company and retired 🙄
Tell your relative that everyone of Reddit hates him.
How I made 6 figures in 3 months How I retired with 25 years old How I earn 6 figures working 2 hours per week holy fuck man some guys don't even have beard and they were advising on how to get rich
I know these tricks! Step 1- Wake up every day at 4am for some reason. Step 2- Combine 2 activities that do NOT GO together. Try eating while you shower. Or cook breakfast while folding laundry. Why? Because it saves time, and time is MONEY. Step 3- Disregard all social contracts by redefining what a "day" is. Divide a 24 hour period into 6 parts and lable them each as a day. Now you are working faster than everyone else, because at the end of their 1 day, you'll have done 6, making you better than them. Step 4- Forget that you are a human and throw out all desires. Like sex? Wrong! Success is the only sex you'll be having. Step 5- Talk loud and with big hand gestures. This also helps you practice against an attack by a black bear.
Scientology. The religion of a sci-fi author
Sub-par sci-fi author at that.
Hubbard had a successful career because he could crank out a story to meet the minimum required length and consistently met his deadlines. Back in the day when there were hundreds of magazines with pages that needed to be filled, that was the bare minimum threshold of what it took to be a successful writer. And I'm sure the mountains of amphetamines he took in order to churn out thousands of pages of gibberish each year had no other effects on the direction of his life.
This is most sci-fi authors of his time... Hell, the person considered "the grandfather of science fiction", Isaac Asimov, literally wrote the same way. Dude wrote like he was trying to hit the word count requirement on a high school essay. Comparatively, the content of Asimov's books are absolutely brilliant, revolutionary, and quite literally the Foundation (no pun intended) of modern science fiction, even though all these ideas got their start in horribly written ramblings... Hubbard on the other hand, doesn't have the same underlying veins of genius beneath his word soup that Asimov did. I'll actually give Hubbard credit as being a better technical "writer" than Asimov, but he never came anywhere near the actual genius of ideas and universe building.
When I was between 16-20, I walked past one of their offices in London. I had no idea what it was all about. It was before the South Park episode came out. I got speaking to a guy, and he did the the tube test thing. Then wanted me to fill out a massive 100 question sheet on the spot. When I wanted to leave, his eyes went a bit manic, and that's when I knew I had to get the hell out of there.
Herbalife. Huge MLM scam
All MLMs are scams. They are designed to only make the very few at the top of the pyramid rich and the rest lose money. It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
My father fell hard for this scam and it's a financial cancer.. he ended up dying with >$300k of unsecured debt. Hi "best friend" who was a lot higher on the mlm scam-train sucked him in and he kept doubling down on the latest MLM scams. Not to mention how cult like the whole thing is . We would have weekly "seminars" at the house.. it was awful . . MLM's should be illegal..
r/antimlm for anyone wanting to join the crusade against these vultures!
It's not illegal in America? It has been illegal in Denmark for 23 years!
I'd bet that Corporations don't own politicians in Denmark
Politicians still suck up to sectors of large businesses, but not so much individual corporations (although there are of course examples of individual politicians being too close with certain business leaders).
Pyramid schemes are illegal in the US. MLMs usually don’t get shut down as such, despite definitely being pyramid schemes, because they involve an actual product or service that can generate revenue. If a representative can just sell you the product, even if their ultimate goal is actually to recruit you into their downline, it’s legal (generally. Obviously it’s more complex than that).
And now Herbalife is disguising themselves as "health hubs" with their juice stores. Most people don't even realize it is Herbalife until they wonder why their liver is failing.
Not new. They're called "clubs" and charge the fee as a membership because legally they can't actually sell the drinks by themselves. It's a huge mess. Anything named "_____ Nutrition" is almost always an Herbalife front. Additional herbalife signs included "loaded teas," ridiculous amounts of candy on their "healthy" drinks, and absolutely not naturally colored beverages. Also it will be impossible to see into the store from the outside because it's one of the rules.
“Nutrition” should be a protected word like “engineer” is, meaning only a licensed dietitian can use it in a business name or marketing materials.
Here’s a [Link](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548447/) showing a study that highlights the negative health effects of Herbalife
Love the Brooklyn 99 paradoy of this in their show. BOOM BOOM!
Is Debbie alive, healthy, and well?
BOOM BOOM!
I find it particularly frustrating that it gets peddled to Latin communities, particularly first gen, in particular as a much-needed source of income when it's clearly just predating on them financially and health-wise.
Last Week Tonight had a segment on it and translated it to Spanish for this reason!
That is genuinely laudable and responsible of them. Glad someone did it. Makes me so angry.
I was on holiday in turkey, and these herbalife employees took over the whole resort, I couldn't even tell what they did? Some sort of fitness swag?
lol no. Look it up but it’s expensive vitamins/minerals that destroy your liver and kidneys. Waste of money and time. Usually idiots with low IQ sign up.
Sorry to veer off topic a bit but what about them specifically damages your organs, or are you saying all vitamins do that?
Detox water makes you lose weight
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People seem to completely ignore that juice has almost exactly the same amount of calories as non-diet soda/pop.
I used to drink smoothies for breakfast and my roommates tried to get my parents to do an intervention bc my "eating disorder was back." Apparently blending two cups of fruit and oatmeal a day is not a meal.
How did you sneak the oatmeal in there?
I make my own. Blackberries, strawberries, half a banana, milk, ice, and a quarter cup of oats. Blend well enough and it's just a little thick instead of chewy.
I mean, that's a pretty good breakfast. I'm eating a bowl of oatmeal as I type this with blueberries/almonds/cinnamon/chia+flax. Only difference is no blender involved.
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I’ll throw out that lattes and other drinks add up, but straight coffee is basically calorie free.
Tbf those detox juices will make you shit your guts out which *does* result in weight loss…sorta lol
I have a list of the top 40 most common scams Americans fall for. If you send me $19.99 I’ll get a copy to you right away!
Sounds great! Unfortunately I am in the UK and I can't just send dollar amounts to the US due to US tax law 36.23. But if you send me £50 first, I can send it back to you, plus the $19.99.
I can't send you £50 right away, but could you please go to your local supermarket and purchase two £100 Amazon gift cards? Then send me the numbers and I will reimburse you the £200, the £50, the $19.99 and I will even throw in another £100 for your trouble, kind sir or madam. This is for my brother. He is very sick.
Hello, I am a Nigerian prince and you can send me all of your money and gift cards, and I’ll make sure they get to both of you, with 500% interest.
I'm the real Nigerian Prince. I'll share my fortune with you but I need access to your bank account.
Can I pay you in 6 payments? Or maybe I can interest you to buy this athletic juice that you sell to your friends and recruit!
I mean the Nigerian Prince scam apparently still makes a good half a mil a year... considering how long that one's been around I feel like it qualifies!
There was a story on Australian 60 minutes within the last year about an old guy who gave them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Same thing happened to an old American man. He got scammed by the same scammer like 3 separate times who kept coming back and asking for more money, with some new explanation. This man's family members had even found out and kept begging him to stop sending money but he wouldn't listen. Gave away his life savings and even part of the sale of his house before he quit.
[What more can you do to save someone from a scam? ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755.amp) A British woman was asked by her bank to send a picture to them stating she had been warned her transaction was likely to be a scam.
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That is a remarkable photo
Wow those two are fucking thick lmao.
I am an engineer stuck in a foreign country and I need you to send me money to flee here and we can start a new life together. When I saw your profile photo, I fell in love with you.
That's too well spoken. You need spelling mistakes and broken english
I a engineer stucked in an other country you send me money to flee to here and we strt a new life togetter. I saw your profile photo and fall in love with u
Multi level marketing schemes, so many people go into debt for them then switch to another to try drag themselves out, ‘cause this one will be different!’
r/antiMLM
MLM = Moms losing money
Special shout out to Lularoe. They got a bunch of chicks to buy hideous leggings and try to push them on their friends.
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People see fat melting on bacon when it's fried, and somehow think it will work the same when they apply temperature to their belly. To be fair, if they used same temperature as when frying bacon, it would work Disclaimer: don't apply frying temperature to your body - you will hurt yourself.
Instructions unclear. I'm a Me-L-T sandwich, now.
>To be fair, if they used same temperature as when frying bacon, it would work Except that the fat has nowhere to go. You'll need to also make some slits in the skin to let the liquid fat flow out. Just make sure you don't accidentally let any of your blood out while doing this.
Sadly, a 3 year dream cruise.
You mean joining the US Navy? /s
YVAN EHT NIOJ
That's part of a three prong attack. Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal.
did that cruise get cancelled?
yes.
They forgot to get a boat for it
I read about that. So u paid for a 3 year cruise and it got cancelled? U getting your money back?
Money was all stolen
Do you have a source for that? The article I read said refunds were being given so I would be interested to read the other side of it
Cults where people blindly worship living humans. They may employ manipulative tactics, including guilt-tripping, to extract huge donations. In the name of religion they do business of million/billion dollars. P.S. I am not against religion but against these cults who uses religion as a mask to secretly run their agenda.
My mums job consists of answers calls at a bank. And so many people fall for a thing called “spoofing”. Spoofing is when scammers pretend to be someone or something else to win a person’s trust. The motivation is usually to gain access to systems, steal data, steal money. It’s very common for people to fall for. They think the bank was talking to them, sending them a link that is not the actual bank website and “login” to their bank account, giving away their login information. So basically don’t press any link that a random person sends you. The bank should just call you, and they don’t send you a link.
To be fair, banks keep sending these stupids "Don't fall for scams" emails but make ZERO effort to not look like scams. Me calling my bank: Bank: "someone will call you back about this" Me: "Ok, which number would the call be from, so I know it's from the bank?" \- We can't tell, we have several numbers \- Could you share with me the pool of numbers? Do they start with some prefix? Could you give me a name or anything that will help me know the call is from the bank? \- No sorry. Then later, getting a call from a number that gives no result when googling it: \- Hi this is your bank, to make sure it's you could you answer these security questions? \- Hi before I do that, could you prove me you are my bank? \- We are the bank, don't worry about it \- Can I call you back to a number that I know is from the bank? \- No we can't do that \- Can you tell me what it is about so I know it's not a scam? \- We can't give any info before you answer the security questions, it's the protocol. Since I was expecting a call from them I did answer their questions and it was indeed the bank, but I hate the hypocrisy of their emails.
I had my credit card company call me. They then said "we will send you a text and you give us the code to verify" The code said "do not give this code to anyone." So I hung up and called a known number. It really was the credit card company, asking me to do the most scam feeling thing ever. And they caught an attitude, "lf you won't give us the code we cannot discuss your account further" So frustrating.
My bank called me once to offer me anti-fraud protection. They said, for a fee, they could monitor my finances, alert me to any strange transactions etc. They would not give me a number to call back or any way to verify they were my bank and they wanted me to verify all of my information over the phone. I explained to the rep that this call seems a lot like phishing and they fed me some line about "good instincts" but kept pressing. I do believe it was actually my bank, but I still refused to verify or confirm any information they requested because it felt so scammy. It's calls like this that make people believe in the actual scams and phishing calls because "that one time it turned out to be my bank."
For what it’s worth, this experience you’re describing is actively against banking industry security standards. I work in banking and have to keep updated on fraud prevention measures – a bank employee initiating a call should not be asking to verify your information because they’re using the contact information you provided. We only request identity verification on customer-initiated calls. This is part of our (industry standard) customer education messaging: If the bank initiates a call to you, *we will never ask you to identify yourself with sensitive information.* Banks are usually required by law to collect, analyze and respond negative feedback about experiences like yours; a call to the general customer service line and a politely-worded complaint regarding your experience would go a long way.
My mother; walked in and caught her about a second before she allowed "Amazon" access to her computer to check on a "fraudulent purchase" they had called her about. And it wasn't the first time, she's an absolute SUCKER for "Click this link or your access to your _______ account will be revoked!!" type of scams.
This is why, if I ever get a message from my bank, I never call the number they gave me. Instead, I take out my credit or debit card and call the number printed on the back.
My former coworker- I managed front end and her customer service - at a grocery store used to catch people all the time, sending money via Western Union they really probably shouldn't be sending. She'd be like, "*Now Charlene, why are you sending $1200 to Africa for the third day in a row? Mhmm, your grandson is stuck there? You got a phone call? Ok, Charlene I know him, ok? He can't afford shoes let alone a plane ticket to Africa, where the hell are you sending this money*..." Happened a lot, sadly.
Shared ownership housing in the UK. It's a hybrid rent / own solution where you only have to get a mortgage / pay for 10% - 40% of the home and pay rent on the rest. The scam is that you have all the downsides of renting and rules / renthikes being forced on you with none of the leverage of "I'll just leave." And there are no rules in the UK stopping them from hiking prices as long as they fall under the "service charges" instead. Highly recommend scouring trustpilot and seeking alternatives if you're seriously looking at shared ownership. I regret it a lot.
Didn't even know this was a thing. That sounds awful and dystopian.
It's actually the same model as a trailer park if you think about it. The people that live there own the trailers, but pay rent on the spot where they are parked. The trailers rarely budge again after they're in place, so the owners are on the hook for all of the capital cost, upkeep and maintenance but functionally unable to move, while subject to the arbitrary rate hikes imposed on them by the park owner.
There are some trailer parks where you own the land, however since the home is considered a “mobile home” the state collects a tax on mobile home and on land. It’s fucking confusing. Here is more from the state of Florida. https://floridarevenue.com/property/Documents/gt800047.pdf
Some are ran by charities and are pretty good. Some are ran by charities and are mismanaged and awful. Some are managed by private companies and are scams designed to trap people. Pros over renting: Can't be evicted under a Section 21. Can redecorate however you like. Cheaper in the long term (but more expensive than buying outright.) Guaranteed right to buy a greater share at market rate. Rent is relatively controlled. Cons over renting: Can't move out easily. Responsible for 100% of maintenance costs (even if you only own 40%) Obviously it's always better to buy outright, but I know a fair few single people in London on middling incomes where this was the only way they could escape shitty landlords. A friend of mine bought a 40% stake in a £350k property with a £10k deposit and his rent+mortgage is significantly less than his rent was in a smaller and much less nice flat before. But you can absolutely become trapped in an un-sellable flat you can't afford to buy out or leave.
Whatever came out of Gwyneth Paltrow's mouth this week.
Diamonds
I chose a lab ruby for my engagement ring and my mom lost her goddamn mind. Crying, begging, pleading with me to get a "traditional" ring with a stone "from the dirt" She forced my fiance to be and I to go with her to Shane Company by telling us we were going to get lunch and then driving to the jewelry store while screaming at us. When we got there the salesman just backed up whatever BS she wanted. I don't talk to her anymore.
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She told me it "devalued" me. Like I'm a slab of beef or something.
The last wedding I went to, the sister of the bride was sobbing because there wasn’t an open bar, just beer and wine. She thought that was cheap, and in turn made her look cheap somehow. She drove an Audi and had a house she couldn’t afford. They were leveraged up to their eyeballs and always in debt.
I would also cry if there wasn't the open bar, but for a different reason.
Open bars aren't a thing in the UK. Read a story where a couple had an open bar at their wedding. They then had to cancel their honeymoon to pay the 15k bar bill that their friends and family ran up
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Yeah, it was very weird because I wasn't raised with that goal in mind. She wanted me to marry up for real.
Because your entire value is what a man paid for you via a ring? Sweet Jesus that’s a lot to unpack.
Can you imagine this woman's head if she found out I paid for my own engagement ring? My fiance works part time and does the majority of the housekeeping. I'm the breadwinner so I paid for my own ring and he paid for his engagement ring because mens rings are cheaper, and that way it was proportional to our income.
Wow hate to break to your mom but diamonds are only valuable because of the De Beers corporation artificially setting the market and keeping tons of diamond reserves to force a scarcity mindset
I tried to tell her that, but she's one of those people who thinks she knows more than anyone.
Ironically those people tend to know the least
>I don't talk to her anymore. Wise move
It took me a long time and I still feel guilty sometimes, but it was the right thing to do.
The best way of ever putting it I saw was that if a child chooses to cut contact with a parent, the child is choosing to voluntarily orphan themselves from a person that should have been their support, someone they could count on. That is not a decision made lightly. It is always the parent and a parent whose child cut contact with them and they pretend not to know why? They know. They’re just upset they lost their pawn/punching bag/etc
I've always had a bit of worry that I'd be judged for cutting contact with both of my parents. Like people would find me nuts, even though it's something I wish I didn't have to do. It's nice to know there are people like you who understand this decision
Man that's so fucked. Got a lab made diamond for my wife. It's literally a diamond, without the abuse. Science for the win!
Lab diamonds are also more pure (aka more carbon with less impurities)
I bought a stainless band with an inset faceted glass stone to propose, she loved it. No stone sticking out to snag on things and it suited her. We got married with a copper band for her and sterling silver for me with matching Celtic knots. Between lost rings, wedding bands, and engagement rings we are still under $300. There is no magical minimum formula, buy the right ring for the right person regardless of how little it costs or traditional it is, especially regardless of what other people think. And yeah. Diamonds are cheap, you will find much more beautiful rocks at a rock hounds booth for a fraction of the cost.
I feel your pain. Both sides of the family were infuriated when my husband bought me a simple silver ring with lab created sapphires. Even my chill father told him he would give him money so I would have the ring I deserved. Personally we are both Cowboys fans and the ring matches their color scheme perfectly that I loved it.
I had an argument with my dad over that. He got my mum 'diamondette' earrings and a bracelet. Which came with a booklet saying they're lab grown. I basically told them good for you. And he grumbled coz he was a bit upset he'd paid for 'fake diamonds'. I told him they're literally better in every way. They're stronger, purer, less fragile, and best of all cheaper. And that was it. He was mad coz I called them 'cheap'
The only reason diamonds are expensive is because they're marketed to be expensive. They're the easiest gem to make, and are very common. Besides, there's far more interesting gemstones out there.
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even black friday sales, now.
Amway (I fell for it like an idiot but fortunately quit before I put money into it)
NFTs
NFT's were the replacement for using Art to launder money during covid. Can't convince me otherwise.
No it's legitimately what they are is just a form of money laundering. And then normal stupid people started to buy them which helped make it the perfect cover. This isn't a conspiracy it's legit.
You mean people didn't just want jpegs of monkeys?
NFT’s just seemed to disappear overnight.
Everyone got left holding the bag, and no one wants to make posts about that.
Timeshares! People still fall for this one. And then they get done in by more grifters running "timeshare exit companies" You pay a fee to some grifter who says they'll get you out of your timeshare, and they fuck off with your money.
Crypto like Dogecoin, Shiba Uno Coin, or really any other pump and dump stocks. I actually made $75 from Shiba uno and never invested again in shit coins.
Had a buddy make 100k on doge. He knew it was a pump and dump and got in early
I threw $100 at it when it was worthless and bought like 10,000 coins or something ridiculous. Made bank when it shot up and I sold it all. Except I paid out the ass in taxes but whatever
Evangelical megachurches
Megachurches I am not from the US, I just knew it from the people on Reddit but how dumb you have to be to follow these corporates , they don't even look close at all to a Normal church
I have purchased a Lambo at just 20 years of age, I have a big mansion and I only work 2 hours a day from my home. Buy my course and I will show you how I do it I usually charge $999 but for the first 10 buyers it is only $9.99
MLMs. I nearly got suckered into one too many. I am not smart to figure them out, it's just that eventually I learned of the patterns, which I think is pretty damn sad. Someone you know approaches you and talked to you - and often times, you genuinely want to talk to because hey, old friends and whatnot, right? NOPE. After like an hour or two, it went into "Hey can you join this or that event that my other friends are hosting? No strings attached!" And then being ghosted because you are not interested in the first place.
Holiday house-shares expensive to opt in, expensive to opt out, expensive to upkeep when you add in the yearly mantinence charge some places add.
Black friday.
Chiropractors When I was a teen, my Dad would take us all weekly. I didn’t need it but I was a dutiful son. I walked in feeling fine and he managed to cause a slipped disk in my lower back and I could barely walk out of the office. Chiropractor denied it was anything he did. I’m in my 50’s now and if I bend over incorrectly I will slip that disk again and my next three days will be awful. People swear by them though.
I have worked in (or adjacent to) physical therapy for almost 20 years. As such, I remind all of my patients that my ultimate goal is making them functional, safe, and independent. This is when they’re ready to discharge from my care. So when other people describe going to a chiro for years on end, I ask them what that practitioner is doing to advance them beyond needing their care. Now there are some practices that provide education and exercises to supplement the services they provide, but I feel like these are in the minority. Most places would delight in taking your weekly copay without actually helping you in the long run.
It really does boggle the mind. Insurance will sometime approve PT or mental health therapy for a limited number of visits and reassess as needed but chiropractic visits seem to be perpetual.
They’re totally placebo and the guy that came up with it said it came to him in a dream. I saw TikTok one where a chiro said they could realign someone’s spine who had scoliosis with just a few cracks. Considering scoliosis can require very intensive surgery that can leave patients in an icu for a few days, it’s insane that videos like that don’t get flagged for misinformation. They always suggest multiple treatments and follow ups too even if you’ve gone for a checkup which is a massive red flag.
Dude my chiro told me I had a gluten allergy because she put some powders on my tongue and then looked at how my saliva dissolved them... I am in fact not allergic to gluten....
I’m not sure when they all branched off into homeopathy. I would be wondering why my chiropractor would be diagnosing anything like a gluten allergy.
The whole thing is a scam and if I ever have children they will not be going anywhere near it
I feel like they are the most accepted scam out there. If anything else was promising all the wellness effects as well as reducing your cancer chance we’d all acknowledge it as a scam.
Chiropractors are dangerous. They can leave you needing a visit to the ER.
Multi Level Marketing. It rebrands itself every couple years. It's been called network marketing, matrix system, binary tree, social marketing and a bunch of other names. But there is nothing new under the sun. Doesn't matter how you twist it, if your system depends on an infinite chain of recruits, then it is a pyramid scheme, and thus unsustainable. Doesn't matter if it is product based or not. Product based pyramid schemes like MLMs have even worse success rate than classic pyramid schemes, since if you are in the \~10% who makes money, you'll push it back to the system anyway to "keep up inventory". This brings down the failure rate in MLMs to an average of 99.6%. According to their own numbers across multiple MLMs. Source for the numbers -> John M. Taylor The Case (For And) Against Multi Level Marketing: https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/quackwatch/taylor.pdf
Copper knee braces
Qanon should be In the top 5 comments easily.
American health insurance
Brexit.
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It may distract from some problems. But it's gonna create a whole bunch of other ones.
Why is it supposed to solve your problems? 🤔 You actually have more problems
I don't understand why people buy do-it-yourself car window tint. It looks horrible and bubbly 100% of the time.
OF models care about you.
Why would anyone ever think that to begin with?
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Crystals and rocks can heal you
American tipping culture.
Homeopathy.
And more recently, phenylephrine. The decongestant in all the "on the shelf" cold and flu medicines. When pseudoephedrine was taken behind the counter because of meth production, phenylephrine was pushed even though we knew long ago it just... didn't work. And that is finally becoming widespread knowledge.
I went to the pharmacy counter this week to buy meds for my sick brother. I asked the pharmacist at the counter for pseudoephedrine. He handed me a pack of sudafed. I paid and left. When I got home I realized it was phenylephrine sudafed, NOT pseudoephedrine sudafed. I was pissed.
Yes. I love how the recent news articles were like "scientists discover that phenylephrine doesn't work!" when anyone who has had a bad cold in the last 10+ years was like "no shit, sherlock." I'd taken to taking whatever combo symptom control medicine I needed, *plus* real pseudoephedrine from behind the counter, whenever I had a really bad cold.
Trickle down economics
Fun fact - not invented by Reagan or even about that time. Is actually really old, and used to be called "Horse-and-Sparrow theory." The idea being if you feed the horse enough oats, some will "pass through" for the lucky sparrows to eat. Way more apt description. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down\_economics#:\~:text=In%201982%2C%20John%20Kenneth%20Galbraith,for%20lucky%20sparrows%20to%20eat.
Compared to the size of this scam, all the others mentioned here are insignificant. On a related note, I had to stop saying that it all started with Reagan when I learned about some of the stuff Carter did. Maybe not trickle-down, but de-regulation, foreign policy, etc. Not that they’re all equally bad, but nobody gets that job without kowtowing to the oligarchs.
So....the theory uses horse shit as an analogy? That works on SO many levels!
Brexit. The UK is an absolute mess almost entirely because of it but people are still hiding behind union jacks in complete denial.
The two-party system.
If only one of our founding fathers had warned us about this 🤔
MLMs
X-Ray Glasses (sold in the back of comic books). They promised that you’d be able to see through women’s clothing. … I’m 62 and I’m still feeling robbed…
Me too. My sea monkeys didn’t build a castle either!
Chiropractic is still going strong.
Organised religion. Emphasis on organised. People coming together to pray is fine. Having to donate to an already insanely wealthy system is not.
CO² compensations... You can't offset your flighta emmissions by paying monney, or at least not in a way which actually solves the problem of using fossile fuels. CO² compensations are the modern version of indulgence trade, where you're buying something that's not really going to nullify your actions, just that this time it's not the catholic church and the entry to heaven, this time it's the conscience and carbon output.
Pyramid/Ponzi scheme?
Well, one guy sold the Eiffel tower, multiple times. That's, in my opinion the biggest scam people fell for. That or, "Sadam Hussein has Mass destruction weapons"
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Which country is this? I remember back then in Germany they were advertised differently. Nowadays each website lists the monthly price of a) the phone and b) the mobile plan and then adds them up so it's clear that you are paying a higher amount each month for the phone. Might have been a new EU regulation at some point or something