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Originally Posted by loren
People get involved with it though and then they are willing to spread the misinformation in order to recoup their losses.
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Yes, I think this is exactly what happens.
I think there's a very small number of people who are really brazen about it, deliberately set out to do it knowing that it's illegal and wrong because they want to make as much money as possible that way, and then a much bigger number of people who get talked into it without really realising that it's illegal, or choosing through their own financial need to accept the "explanations" that "it isn't illegal" even though they know really that there's something not quite right about it (because you'd have to be
very gullible not to, wouldn't you?). And then, as Loren says, they have to try to recoup their losses.
I had a conversation some months ago with a member of this forum about a different sort of "illegal network marketing 'opportunity' ", but also one without genuine products where the entry-fees of later-joining participants are used to pay the profits of earlier ones, and was really taken aback when I finally managed to explain to her why it really wasn't going to be around for as long as a year (because none of its predecessors ever has been) and she actually said to me openly "Well, even if you're right that doesn't matter to me because I'll have made my profit by then anyway". It saddens me.
And it concerns me that given the state of the economy at the moment, these criminals are going to attract a lot more people who "feel in need".
And one or two of these disgusting things even dress themselves up as "Christian opportunities", which makes me
really angry. [img]smileys/smiley7.gif[/img]