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On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:23:45 -0800, Bob Officer
<bobofficers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>There was a recent case that was the rage in Northern California,
>Nevada, and Utah. It was the old fashions pyramid scheme, dress up as
>a scam called "Women helping Women". Basically it worked like this. A
>dinner party was held and a gift was offered to the hostess for each
>plate. In turn each level of this multi-tiered pyramid had a
>different buy in... and earn your way to the top tier.
>
>Like all pyramid scheme, sooner or later the people buying in found
>the source or pool of 'Available Marks' had dried up.
>
>What made this scheme look so "odd" was it was being run by a deputy
>sheriff's wife. Even when I tried to explain to some people, why it
>was considered a unlawful scheme/scam. They wanted to argue with me.
>
>BTW the sheriff's wife was found guilty of running a pyramid
>scheme/scam and was sentenced to Jail and required to make full
>restitution to their known victims. The local leaders got a reduced
>sentences in exchange for testimony against the big leaders which ran
>the scheme interstate <federal felony cases with charges of Tax
>evasion, interstate mail fraud and Money laundering>...
Interesting, because there's a wrinkle in my local cult leaders scam.
Check out "Mannatech", which worldwide, they got into. Of course, they
are (Mannatech) *not* a Pyramid scheme. They are a "Multi Level
Marketing Operation" and have ensured their structure could not be
accused of being such.
Let's leave out for the moment that the founders have been fined by
the legal departments of Texas on two occasions for false claims of
medical benefits of a previous product, and the company and directors
are currently being sued for a serious breach of privacy involving a
dead child.
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>>There's also a common behaviour to maintain the world view for the
>>conned. It goes along the line of "Well, when I was buying into it, it
>>was genuine, but it all went wrong" (usually followed by "after I got
>>out").
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>most of the Conned do not want others to know how foolish and stupid
>they are...
>
>Often the Conned are ready and ripe for the next Con that comes
>along. <they often get fooled three or more times.>
Yep. more and more psychologists are noting the phenomena. Sometimes
people need more than one whack on the head to wake up.
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