{"id":763,"date":"2006-04-04T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=763"},"modified":"2006-10-09T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:47:38","slug":"761-of-the-reason-why-this-lampe-berger-fad-is-a-pyramid-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"[761] Of the reason why this Lampe Berger fad is a pyramid scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

For podcast on the same topic, see post [762]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

My sister has been asking MYR 30,000 from my parents for nearly 2 weeks now. The reason is Lampe Berger (tag)<\/a>. Upon inspection, I’m convinced this is a pyramid scheme. I told my parents that and they have been very reluctant to give my sister that cash that she needs to enter this scam. However, my mom told me that my sister has thrown RM2,000 into it and that makes me angry.<\/p>\n

One of the documents that I managed to have a look is RZ Corporation’s (I suspect this is the real culprit behind scam) “business plan<\/em>“:<\/p>\n

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For larger illustration, click here<\/a>. A new window will appear.Notice that one way or another, the real flow of income is the recruitment fee. I mean, come on. They are selling aroma therapeutic piece of crap which I doubt have been medically proven. How many of those shits do one needs to sell to get back one’s RM30,000 fixed cost?<\/p>\n

In the end, the quickest and by far the easiest way to breakeven is by telling other people to pay you RM30,000. The goods are merely the veils to cover up the swindlers’ real intention. That’s the hallmark of Ponzi or pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought this is a limited and isolated case. Only after reading Brand New Malaysian’s<\/a> entry do I realize the severity of the problem. Brand New Malaysian is a local blog with considerable following.<\/p>\n

We totally need to get back at those thieves and liars.<\/p>\n

p\/s – this guy is telling people that MUDs and MMORPGs are the same thing<\/a>. Yes. Absolutely. \/forward \/left \/starfire \/heal \/right \/travelform \/switchback
\n \/root \/moonfire \/travelform \/switchback \/hearthstone \/logoff (via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For podcast on the same topic, see post [762]. My sister has been asking MYR 30,000 from my parents for nearly 2 weeks now. The reason is Lampe Berger (tag). Upon inspection, I’m convinced this is a pyramid scheme. I told my parents that and they have been very reluctant to give my sister that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}