Neosocket teardown - the 2022 remix
Added 2022-10-15 03:31:38 +0000 UTCThe Internet is littered with scams like these. Often originating in the past when people didn't have the Internet to check their validity.
They were usually advertised in magazines or newspapers who were also apparently unscrupulous in the adverts they allowed.
They may also have been sold through pyramid marketing schemes where the manufacturer would recruit some salesmen that would then recruit further salesmen so it spread out exponentially with each layer skimming a bit of profit.
I once attended a pyramid marketing seminar for the ecoflow fuel saver magnets and it was run in the style of a religious cult. Very interesting, but very squirmy too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGp1u8vfm4
Comments
Insidious they're capitalizing on the utilities crisis to sell junk.
LovelyHeiferDev
2022-10-21 20:30:58 +0000 UTCRe: Amway, I guess they still are operating in Japan. Story just showed up in a Japanese newspaper that Amway Japan is being investigated for "illegal solicitation." Cults. What are you going to do.
Curtis Hoffmann
2022-10-16 03:07:10 +0000 UTCAn very fitting end for that item.
Charles Bruckner
2022-10-16 00:36:56 +0000 UTCI dabbled - not Amway, but I knew of it through my (now) ex-wife. It's interesting there seem to be two types of people in these schemes: dreamers and realists. Unfortunately the realists are nasty pieces of work - materialist predators. Law of the jungle types. The products IMHO seemed OK. Some of them were quite innovative. Presumably the legal folks had anticipated that road hump before they got to it. The nasty stuff was in the social engineering. Isn't it always?
Mike Page
2022-10-15 20:12:35 +0000 UTCYes it is. It was what it deserved.
Big Clive
2022-10-15 16:53:02 +0000 UTCSame for Herbalife.
John Lundgren ~ Acme Fixer
2022-10-15 14:37:25 +0000 UTCIs this the device you did a video blowing up the cap?
Charles Bruckner
2022-10-15 13:37:28 +0000 UTCBefore you tell 'em to screw themselves with it, add a mobile phone vibrating motor to ram your point home.
Ymir the Frost Giant
2022-10-15 12:15:29 +0000 UTCMy aunt and uncle were a part of it in the UK, afaicr. Either Amway or something basically identical. Kept trying to get other family members to join...all of whom told them to get stuffed. They're kind of batshit anyway and I can't remember the last time any of my immediate family spoke to them (we exchange anniversary and Christmas cards and that's about it).
Chris Crowther
2022-10-15 10:37:42 +0000 UTCfor sure !
Richard Lackie
2022-10-15 05:17:13 +0000 UTCIn the U.S., Amway was a big legal pyramid scheme thing (don't know if it still is), and they were trying to break into Japan as well. One of the people I knew was a member and had tried recruiting me to be part of his "network" (apparently, none of our other mutual friends looked as gullible as me). I attended one presentation and yeah, it's like a cult.
Curtis Hoffmann
2022-10-15 04:02:01 +0000 UTC
