My coworker recently told me he moonlights doing an online job while working our normal job. I asked him what he does and he said that it’s hard to explain but there’s a powerpoint that explains when i get hired. He said it’s all legal and we get paid $10 an hour and pay goes out every week. He showed me he’s made an extra $250 this week on an excel spreadsheet. I think it sounds like a great opportunity/s
Anyway what flavor of scam do you think this guy is part of? I’m thinking mlm because he’s trying to bring others into the fold, but I heard him tell someone else theres a fee to join, and that screams pyramid scheme.
I agree, it sounds like an MLM, pyramid scheme, or some type of reverse funnel system.
I like to call it the one sided diamond
A semi-octahedron
The fee to join makes this absolutely a scam, but everything else reminds me of trying to explain my work for Appen. They do extremely strict NDAs and pay similarly, it’s legit but it also kinda sucks, or at least all the projects I was on sucked.
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You’re joking right? You’re smarter than this.
…Right?
Yes.
Yeah, hard to say the exact nature of the scam. It could be some kind of ponzi, paying out the teeny “wage” from the fees coming in from new recruits.
If he has to explain that it’s legal, and refuses to tell you what it is until you get hired, it’s a scam. Probably an MLM he got sucked into.
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I once had a customer tell “I know it sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it’s not” which all but confirms something is a pyramid scheme. I’m gonna assume “it’s definitely legal” is actually code for it’s completely illegal.
It’s a reverse funnel system.
The fact that people exist that have to ask if this isn’t a scam is fucking hilarious
Good thing thats not what OP posted
Definitely a scam.
If someone has to say it’s all legal, do you honestly think that isn’t a red flag?
“it’s all legal” is usually followed by “trust me bro” and then you get to learn about RICO
Join fee + weird recruiting = Fonzie scheme.
Fonzie scheme.
Ayyy!
100% a scam and your coworker is either naive and needs someone to tell him that too or is an asshole who’s trying to get out of the hole he’s put himself in by recruiting other people
How much is the “sign up fee”? Because, ngl, I’m really curries about that PowerPoint now.
Step 1: recruit people Step2: ??? Step 3: Profit
Sounds like a scam, but hey hear him out it may be legit. Don’t draft that resignation letter just yet. I can tell you, with almost complete certainty, that it’s an MLM scheme and you should just walk away.
Absolutely an MLM or similar bullshit
