Timeline for Friend was brainwashed by MLM-/ponzi investment scam. What can I do?
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| Aug 4, 2016 at 9:22 | comment | added | H. Idden | @Keen Doing this anonymous would be very hard since I am one of only a few who know about this in this area and there are not many places where I can place it where it would be read and it wouldn't be clear that it was most likely me. But another friend mentioned that he got invited and I told him the name of it (which was not stated in the invitation) and that there are official warning that this is a scam so they can inform themself before the meeting. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 12:50 | comment | added | Daniel Anderson | Just be cautious that this doesn't somehow boomerang back onto you, H.Idden. With what your friend has already invested, he has so much at stake that there's no telling how he'll react when he learns you're "undermining" (in his eyes) his ticket to financial riches. When this all comes falling down, you could be the one he blames, since you kept him from recruiting the people he believes he needs to reach his goal. This is a VERY touchy situation, and I agree with others you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but help with your own eyes wide open to the potential dangers for you. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 3:29 | comment | added | Keen | @H.Idden You could create anonymous fliers. You just need to include an eye-catch and then a more detailed description of the danger, and mention that even smart people have been tricked. You can place some of them in stalls in public restrooms to catch people when they're more likely to be bored. To protect anonymity, you'd need to imagine what would happen if someone else had posted the fliers, then act like that happened. You saw them around. Someone else is on your side. Maybe you even picked some up off a stack to share when discussing it. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 0:14 | comment | added | H. Idden | I will think about how I can warn them without directly exposing myself. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 0:11 | comment | added | H. Idden | most likely connected to a regular meeting of the community with a professional speaker from the company. The investments start from 100$ and the most promoted investment is 5000$. Most of the members of the youth community either earn nothing because they attend school or between 300 and 1300$. I already tried raising objections at the meeting I have been but they were trained answers for every question I asked (from purely invented reasons to "you don't know the details to sell it). | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 0:04 | comment | added | H. Idden | I can only tell for one of the communities since I don't have connections to the others. He is more a honorable member since he is out of the age but he still regularly joins them to help them with his knowledge, experience and his help and he has been the leader for many years before. So most of the current members respect him. I am about the same age as him but I have only lose contact to some of the members. I can try to talk to the current leaders at the next opportunity. He wants to make the meeting in the club house, | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 18:32 | history | answered | BrenBarn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |