I you haven't heard, the SEC is shutting down one of the largest scams ever. $600 million ponzi scheme. It's a multi-level marketing scheme. It seem people invested a few thousand dollars, they got more money the more people they signed up for, a few token items were auctioned off, the money invested went to pay the higher ups, there was "paper" reward money, and when one tried to cash in everything (get out 100%) the management strongly discouraged them by using fear & intimidation. They would allow some of the people to get out some of their cash (as new recruits were still signing up). This was done to placate the members and to give some reward goal so they kept recruiting. Zeekler.com was the Authority on how to get rich. Zeekler.com encouraged members to fib on how much they were making, in order to help them recruit new members (for which the fibbing zeekler member got a piece of the pie).
If you read much of Steve Hassan, he comments about how commercial cults operate. Similar to religions cults. People involved with religious cult thinking are most likely to join commercial cults. I remember every JW being involved with Amway. Now, I wonder how many JWs were involved with Zeekler. From what I read about Zeekler.com - there appears to be some cult-like problems. The people involved in it are fanatics. The management group uses fear & intimidation to keep people from cashing out their money. Theocratic lying for the common good. An "us v. them" mentality (government going to shut Zeekler down).
I wonder how many JWs were involved with Zeekler. Folks, if it sounds too good to pass it . . . it's probably worth passing up. Hard work and giving people something of real value is what makes a lasting business model. Others are just skeemers, who always seem to be skeeming something up. I hate skeemers. They are fakes.
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