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Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a direct sales strategy some companies use to encourage existing distributors to recruit new ones, offering them a percentage of their recruits' sales. It's a legitimate pyramid scheme. What separates it from the illegal ones is that distributors can make money not only through getting people to enroll into the program but by selling products as well.

However, regardless of legal status, a lot of people have lost money after they got into MLM—even for those companies who are considered legit, the bulk of the profits come from recruiting new members. This was covered well in this segment of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Many huns (people who shill products/services for an MLM; the sellers have a tendency to frequently use the word 'hun' when initiating a sales pitch) are often trying to take their operations online, bombarding their contacts with obnoxious "get rich fast" proposals. So in an attempt to counter them and "stop MLM schemes from draining our friends dry", the subreddit r/antiMLM is trying to highlight just how ridiculous they can be. Continue scrolling and check out some of the most popular posts from the sub.

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I Took Great Pleasure In This! (Haven't Seen This Person Since High School, And Even Then I Don't Think We Ever Talked To Each Other)

I Took Great Pleasure In This! (Haven't Seen This Person Since High School, And Even Then I Don't Think We Ever Talked To Each Other)

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A “Hey Girl” Vortex

A “Hey Girl” Vortex

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Rick
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve seen this before. It’s kind of hilarious to watch it play out.

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#8

I Need To Lose Weight It Seems

I Need To Lose Weight It Seems

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Alethia Nyx
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is so wrong, and dangerous telling someone who looks so fit they are overweight. Glad she is so body confident.

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#12

It Really Feels Like She’s Trying Connect With Me On A Personal Level

It Really Feels Like She’s Trying Connect With Me On A Personal Level

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#14

One Of My Facebook Friends Has Been A Professional Sound Engineer For Probably 20 Years...

One Of My Facebook Friends Has Been A Professional Sound Engineer For Probably 20 Years...

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#16

Found This In One Of My Facebook Groups. How Do These Huns Lack Empathy To This Degree?

Found This In One Of My Facebook Groups. How Do These Huns Lack Empathy To This Degree?

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cybermerlin2000
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait... Someone from what sounds like a hospital is using patient records to push her MLM on them? Isn't that a violation of some kind? Couldn't the woman who posted this actually take legal action?

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#18

No Power, No Water, House Inside Is 35*f, Poor Cell Signal Here In Houston, Texas, But At Least I’m Not In A Pyramid Scheme/Mlm

No Power, No Water, House Inside Is 35*f, Poor Cell Signal Here In Houston, Texas, But At Least I’m Not In A Pyramid Scheme/Mlm

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Night Owl
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrote a little before the pandemic. I hope she kept that spirit

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#19

Women Using Her 6 Year Old Student That Passed As Plug For Doterra

Women Using Her 6 Year Old Student That Passed As Plug For Doterra

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Blakkur Sverrir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly.... I don't want people like this anywhere near my kids

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TruestBlack
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am scared that a person with grammar that bad is teaching children.

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Hermione
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the grammar would be the least of your worries if they’re teaching children.

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Sinkvenice
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person should be fired from her teaching position. For having terrible grammar, for having an MLM "business" and for exploiting a child's death for said "business".

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Uchman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the original Reddit: Update for everyone. She has been reported to both DoTerra and the School she works for. Update* Her post has been taken down and I don’t know anything else. Update* DoTerra responded and they are going to take action against this.

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cybermerlin2000
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would pull my kid out of that school so fast and report the post to the parents of the child that has passed

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Samantha Lomb
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank god they can't smear whatever snake oil that is all over children.

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María Hermida
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She can't smear the oils, which are probably harmless, but she can infect their brains with her ideas, her lack of logical, rational thinking, and her "values". For me, her attitude and lack of compassion are far more worrying than the oils.

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Emilycookie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can't believe some people are so petty, they would use A CHILD'S DEATH to sell their product!

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Ciara Stone
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This lady is f*****g evil. She has a face I'd like to punch, and I've never met her. Smdh.

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A
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The grammar, the spelling, the essential oils, the unsuspecting children. It's all bad.

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"its really helping with the loss of my student! try doTERRA! it really works!"

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Duchess Raven Waves
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh a six year old is dead and their classmates are eagerly waiting their return at the breakfast table on monday by all means spread the stink of your burnt orange and head shop patchouli because that will help them overcome the loss of an entire human they saw every day.

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MyCatsTheRealPanda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if she has an oil that will help her be a less horrible human being that has some class and respect?

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Vaida Kuodytė
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That monster needs to get fired and never be given another job requiring intelligence and integrity

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Silre
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would absolutely have an allergy attack in her classroom, even if I had to rub my face on a dog to do it.

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Jamma
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A teacher who laments not being able to "apply oil to the children"...get them OUT of that classroom!!

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Katherine Boag
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Essential oils can be very dangerous to children, i hope someone stopped her using a diffuser in the classroom

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Seabeast
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know what is more appalling. That she'd try to use this tragedy as an excuse to shill, or that someone with such awful spelling and grammar appears to be a teacher.

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Sarah
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That has to be the lowest thing an MLM person has ever done. And it's a crowded field.

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María Hermida
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teachers are people, too. 😅😅😅😅 Some are intelligent, some are stupid; some are compassionate, some are greedy vultures...

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Mewton’s Third Paw
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dumbbîtch selfishness / lack of care about a dead child, dumbbîtch way of speaking “apply oil to the children” (wtf), dumbbîtch beliefs “the dead child is going to heaven” and the carelessness of spreading them to impressionable minds, and dumbbîtch marketing of MLMs. Sometimes violence is the answer.

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Samantha Hurrell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just hope none of the students were allergic to any of the ingredients.

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Leesa DeAndrea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok. Ok. This explains a lot about the state of the world these days.

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Ruth Beaty
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaaand, how to trigger allergies on any children sensitive to that stinky s**t!

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Minx McCloud
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am absolutely positive that she is lying about being a teacher too. What a creepy person.

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Minx McCloud
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Talk about an insensitive fraud. But if someone falls for this pitch, they deserve to be bilked.

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Magpie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't you have teaching standards in your country? Horrible grammar. Don't your schools have policies on dealing with difficult stuff like death of students? ???? Can't this s##t be reported somewhere?

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Mary Peace
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3 years ago

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Maria Rib
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Using the made-up (hopefully) death of a child to sell MLM products? Oh you're going on Santa's naughty list forever!

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Nika
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, this is a whole new level of a revolting person

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The Redhead
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now if that's not a heartfelt tribute than I don't know what is.

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J. Cole
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I am so very lucky to be carrying these oils, and lucky that my half of a brain continues my ignorance is bliss stream!"

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DC
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so fug dub, I don't have words for it. Essential oils seem to be a thing in the US by now ... we europeans will eventually join, as many stupidities cross the pond after a while, still, although we, they, everybody is more than able to know more than better. Actually, with "Snake Oil" being a term used for pointless pseudomedicine, it surprises me a bit they call this one oil, too ... connection is made pretty fast ... OTOH, those who get this connection aren'T likely to fall for this anyway...

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Bex
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a piece of s**t. Maybe let's pay teachers decent wages so they're not reduced to this pathetic state. You have to be pretty damn desperate to use a child's death as advertising for your Ponzi scheme

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María Hermida
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrong. This has nothing to do with salaries. This woman is a psycho. Full stop. There are no excuses for her behaviour.

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John Topper
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't look like a plug to me. It just looks like a goofy person coping in their own way.

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Was My Response Too Much Hehe

Was My Response Too Much Hehe

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#23

Hun I Went To High School With Pedals Some Bulls**t Toothpaste. She Deleted My Comment Immediately

Hun I Went To High School With Pedals Some Bulls**t Toothpaste. She Deleted My Comment Immediately

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#27

You Just Have To Hope You Don’t Ever Run Into Them In Person

You Just Have To Hope You Don’t Ever Run Into Them In Person

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#30

You May Have Seen This, I First Heard It As Selling Candles On Her Facebook, But... Tomato, Tomato

You May Have Seen This, I First Heard It As Selling Candles On Her Facebook, But... Tomato, Tomato

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#33

My Sister Texted Me This Morning

My Sister Texted Me This Morning

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Pervinca
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I have seen some horror movies starting that way..I hope her friend is safe

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This Is The Best I've Seen So Far, Clearly The Oils Don't Make You Happier

This Is The Best I've Seen So Far, Clearly The Oils Don't Make You Happier

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Pusfarm
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blaming others for your own stupidity!! Always a great way to win friends and influence people.

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#37

Husband Has Had The Last Mlm Straw With His Hunbot Spouse

Husband Has Had The Last Mlm Straw With His Hunbot Spouse

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Samantha Lomb
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Divorce sounds like the best option. Severing finances and possibly declaring bankruptcy.

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I Don't Know Her

I Don't Know Her

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#42

Mlm Hun Tries To Give Career Advice To My Friend Who Is In Medical School

Mlm Hun Tries To Give Career Advice To My Friend Who Is In Medical School

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#43

I Love When They Get Called Out. Checked Her Page And She Posts This Constantly

I Love When They Get Called Out. Checked Her Page And She Posts This Constantly

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#44

This Should Be Illegal. These Vultures Are Messing With Peoples' Lives! Just Put Some Hope On Your Ears If You're Suicidal. That'll Work!

This Should Be Illegal. These Vultures Are Messing With Peoples' Lives! Just Put Some Hope On Your Ears If You're Suicidal. That'll Work!

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Based On A True Story/Invitation I Just Received

Based On A True Story/Invitation I Just Received

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