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Topic subjectanybody here ever participate in these financial boards or "blessings"...
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13391423, anybody here ever participate in these financial boards or "blessings"...
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 02:30 PM
like where you put in $100 and get back $800 then you go up to $1400 and beyond? I think its all pyramid scams but I know some people that swear by that shit lol
13391424, Nope. My boy tried to get me into it
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue Jun-30-20 02:32 PM
He said he got $800 but it feels like a scam.

He’s also one of those oeoooe who is always looking for a shortcut to a come up

13391427, Like a sou sou?
Posted by Mafamaticks, Tue Jun-30-20 02:47 PM
I got one with my family but even some of them got shady.

8 turn to 7, 7 turned to 6 so on and so forth. love them to death though
13391429, nah. it don't feel right.
Posted by tariqhu, Tue Jun-30-20 02:51 PM
my cousin sent me a text saying he just wanted to make me aware and wasn't asking for anything.

his very next text says 'its not a scam'. which means it probably is.

I'm good.
13391432, never heard of it
Posted by SuiteLady, Tue Jun-30-20 03:04 PM
13391436, lol those are a scam and a half
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Tue Jun-30-20 03:22 PM
13391439, Always ask yourself....does this make any sense at all?
Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Tue Jun-30-20 03:51 PM
That will filter out 90% of scams.

Why is King Jaffe Joffer promising to wire me $100 million if I send him $500 worth of gift cards? That doesn't make any sense at all.

Why do you want me to cash this $1000 check and give you $500 worth of gift cards keeping the other $500 for myself? That doesn't make any sense at all.


Why would I make more money if I bring more people into the "business" of selling ugly ass tights that if I just sold the ugly ass tights myself? That doesn't make any sense at all.


Why would I get back $800 on $100 for doing nothing? That doesn't make any sense at all?
13391440, I grew up with my family having sou-sou groups (West Indian)
Posted by Cornbread, Tue Jun-30-20 03:55 PM
It was great for a lot of family members that did not have easy access to banks and capital and that needed some added incentive to save consistently.

Many immigrant communities currently use sou-sou groups to make down-payments on houses and businesses.

The biggest thing is doing it with people you trust.

https://thegrio.com/2011/05/20/sou-sou-black-immigrants-bring-savings-club-stateside/

https://blavity.com/can-pooling-money-via-sou-sous-in-the-black-community-give-us-the-financial-boost-we-need?category1=black-history&subCat=community-submitted
13391450, yeah I've heard them called that
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 05:25 PM
13391441, Funny, for the first time ever someone tried to get me to do that
Posted by lightworks, Tue Jun-30-20 04:11 PM
last week.

I think it was like I put in $1100 and get back $11,000 or something.

There was also an option of putting in $200 and getting $800 back.

It all sounded like the biggest scam in the world.

I asked what happened if I gave them money and didn't get the correct amount of people under me, do I get my money back and the connect didn't have an answer for me.

If you are gonna try to sell someone on something, especially when everyone is short on bread because we in a pandemic then you gotta be rock solid with all the answers.

Anyway yeah nah definitely said no and it made me feel sorry for my connect for thinking I was actually the one to play with about my money lmao.
13391444, it's a pandemic, and you're still friends with scammers?
Posted by Rjcc, Tue Jun-30-20 04:40 PM
how

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391447, thats what happens in a culture that ignores economic literacy
Posted by seasoned vet, Tue Jun-30-20 05:04 PM
13391468, if people can't tell the truth and understand facts
Posted by Rjcc, Tue Jun-30-20 08:26 PM
then they gotta get the fuck away from me

and then I don't have to deal with any weirdos telling me about how they don't vaccinate, it's great.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391452, I have the same friends that I had before the pandemic.
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 05:27 PM
13391455, OUCH
Posted by seasoned vet, Tue Jun-30-20 05:35 PM
all the way around
13391460, Right? Why wouldn’t I remain friends with people
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue Jun-30-20 06:34 PM
just because they fuck yo the money are like to try shortcuts?

Just tell them no and go back to choppin it up.

Shit ain’t that serious but we have to remember these folks be by themselves a lot.
13391465, it says something that you think if you didn't have scammer friends
Posted by Rjcc, Tue Jun-30-20 07:30 PM
you'd have no friends at all.


www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391502, I never said that but whatever bruh
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 06:52 AM
Some friends do, some don’t. I just shrug at those who do and we go back to talking shit and chillin

13391474, typical OKP smart dumb nigga shit
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 09:39 PM
13391503, OKP’s only deal with perfection.
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 06:54 AM
13391553, you regularly double down on ignorance and stupidity
Posted by seasoned vet, Wed Jul-01-20 10:31 AM
proudly standing on a hill of your own life experiences as if your lens is everyones

you do realize its okay to inquire about things you dont understand without coming off as a smug asshole, labeling anything outside your world view as perfection
13391555, The irony in your post is hilarious
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 10:41 AM
What are you even arguing about?

Dudes implying truth can’t have friends who have questionable financial practices like it can kill a friendship.

Ain’t nothing wrong with being friends with someone who is into MLM shit.. just don’t participate.

13391636, I thought that reply was meant for rjcc lol
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Jul-01-20 01:29 PM
13391658, Hit doggy dog
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 02:37 PM
13391664, I don't deal with people who try to scam me out of my money
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Jul-01-20 03:00 PM
if that, to you, represents an impossible standard, then yeah, I understand how it would seem like that to you

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391670, No, you just you judge people who remain friends with them
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 03:09 PM
If my Nubian sister wants to sell me on essential oils or my brotha wants to sell me an MLM scheme it ain’t the end of our friendship.

I just say no.

We can still watch the game tho. Again, it ain’t that serious.
13391694, I understand that you do that. because those are your only friends.
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Jul-01-20 05:52 PM
people who think you're a sucker.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391706, lmao.. that was funny
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 08:49 PM
no where close to true but I laughed.

13391445, its a pyramid scheme built around black group economics
Posted by seasoned vet, Tue Jun-30-20 05:03 PM
13391446, ONLY thing that could make this make sense is purchasing drugs:
Posted by flipnile, Tue Jun-30-20 05:04 PM
>like where you put in $100 and get back $800

If it ain't drugs, you know it's a scam.
13391449, that's what I said there's even a meme about that lol
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 05:24 PM
>>like where you put in $100 and get back $800
>
>If it ain't drugs, you know it's a scam.
13391459, I’ve read about sou sou and someone on here talked about their
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue Jun-30-20 06:31 PM
fam doing it so it’s not a scam if it’s done right

but the “done right” part is where it turns into a scam.

Someone is always going to bail once they get the pot and not put in their share for the next person.

Now if this is something where you have to find 8 people under you it’s definitely a scam. That’s work. Might as well hustle by your damn self.

13391592, ‘if its done right’...’someones always going to bail’
Posted by seasoned vet, Wed Jul-01-20 11:40 AM
SO fucking dumb
13391604, Poor thing.. lol
Posted by legsdiamond, Wed Jul-01-20 12:00 PM
Got you out here misquoting to throw darts.

13391478, I do find it interesting that its scoffed at by most black Americans...
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Jun-30-20 09:57 PM
Yet we watch immigrants come from other countries into our communities with nothing and build successful businesses.

Not saying that’s how do it but they aren’t all getting bank loans and are using other methods to get their businesses off the ground
13391481, LOL
Posted by lightworks, Tue Jun-30-20 10:05 PM
Black folks being suspicious of pyramid schemes being connected to success by immigrants in any way is silly.

And the idea that some immigrants start and maintain businesses due to doing this doesn't mean that Black folks shouldn't be concerned and on the look out for obvious scams.

Finally, a family deciding to pool their resources together is totally different than your homie hitting you up to see if you want to find 8 other people to be taken for a bullshit ride.
13391494, I never said black people shouldn’t be suspicious and and that this is...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Jul-01-20 05:24 AM
what immigrants do.

I do think black people should be more curious about how quickly foreigners are able to set up successful businesses in our neighborhoods and we are not.
13391484, just go give those scammers your money and stop telling us about it
Posted by Rjcc, Tue Jun-30-20 10:28 PM

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391495, There are “scammers” in literally every type of business from...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Jul-01-20 05:37 AM
from “cryptocurrency”, to brick and mortar stores, restaurants and bars, churches, “legal services”, the entire medical industry is the biggest scam ever, student loans, banking, real estate, construction, “lash techs” lol, the list goes on and on.

There is nothing wrong with having a conversation.
13391665, give them all of your money right now
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Jul-01-20 03:01 PM

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
13391669, reply #28. n/m
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Jul-01-20 03:09 PM
13391721, Why Are All These Internet "I Can Tell You How To Get Rich" People
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Wed Jul-01-20 10:05 PM
...are never billionaire rich but telling you how you can become rich by investing in this and that or stock/business, it's like they write up some bullshit then on the sly has some sly way of asking you for money to get the "so-called" real info cause the free trial info isn't really the good stuff, LOL.

It's like if you aint' a billionaire by now, why in the fuck would I do what you did?


13391749, I agree with a lot of this which is why I am a skeptic with most things...
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Jul-02-20 08:18 AM
>...are never billionaire rich but telling you how you can
>become rich by investing in this and that or stock/business,
>it's like they write up some bullshit then on the sly has some
>sly way of asking you for money to get the "so-called" real
>info cause the free trial info isn't really the good stuff,
>LOL.
>
>It's like if you aint' a billionaire by now, why in the fuck
>would I do what you did?


especially with all the real estate "geniuses" who have commercials/ads on tv