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[G.Irish]

5 to 1 its a pyramid scheme.

What does that mean? Just kind of curious.

A pyramid scheme is where you try to get people to sign up with you to buy or sell a product. You get a percentage of anything those people buy or sell. Then the people you signed up try to get more people to sign up. The first group of signees gets a percentage of anything the second group of signees sells. The original guy also gets a cut of anything the 2nd group buys or sells. It goes on ad nauseum. So its lets say each person signs up 5 additional people. It would go kinda like this

1 guy signs 5 guys
5 guys sign 25 guys
25 guys sign 125 guys
125 guys sign 625 guys
625 guys sign 3125 guys
3125 guys sign 15625 guys
etc...

The illegal version of a pyramid is where nothing gets sold, the only way to make money is to sign more people. There are many variations of the legal version but all of them basically suck.

Some tell tale signs:
1. A stranger approaches you and tries to chat you up, then mentions a job opportunity (marketing, sales, advertising, ecommerce)
2. Someone you know vaguely calls you up out of the blue about a job opportunity or a way to make extra money
3. You get a response from a job site with vague details about what the job entails and usually they want you to come in for an interview right away