Why MLMs target immigrants | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. We’ve seen countless MLMs with immigrants as their salesforce, and while they may portray this as a generous opportunity, nothing could be further from the truth. MLMs know how to prey on vulnerable people that don’t have the ability or knowledge to legally defend themselves. Whether it’s a pyramid scheme or a downright scam, immigrants are all too often the targets. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/62um3 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	MLMs often target vulnerable people to join their business opportunities,
0:09.4	people who could really use money, who are looking for community, and who are desperate to believe in the
0:14.3	promises MLM's offer. Sometimes those people are moms.
0:18.4	You were heavily pregnant, we're going to have a new baby soon. How much do you feel like you were targeted because of that?
0:26.0	Oh, extremely. It was a few weeks before my maternity leave and me and my husband went for our finances
0:31.9	and thought, oh my God how
0:32.8	sometimes those people are college students.
0:36.4	The recruitment videos are flashy.
0:38.8	I would have never thought it was possible at 20 years old to be financially free.
0:44.0	It's the opportunity of a lifetime.
0:46.0	Sometimes those people are religious, like Mormons.
0:48.0	As members of the church, we are taught that we, the moms, are supposed to stay home with their kids and nurture them and raise them and so I think a lot of women in this area take that a little almost too seriously where they're like this is the only way
1:04.9	can stay home is to do an MLM so that I can earn.
1:08.8	And sometimes those people are immigrants.
1:11.0	Strategy where they decided to target the poorest people in the world.
1:14.0	It sounds incredible, but true.
1:16.0	Today, we're going to be discussing the latter group.
1:18.6	I'm sure that many of you, especially those who've been here for quite some time, aren't
1:22.2	surprised to hear that
1:23.1	MLMs target immigrants. People who come to this country are often hardworking,
1:27.8	trying to prove themselves, and searching for the promise of the American Dream,
1:31.6	and that's something that
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