Aug 13
Check out this picture. From the camera angle do you have any trouble seeing some red flags. From the 
photographed persons angle, maybe he could not see those red flags. The closer he looks the more likely it is that he will notice that he is in trouble. He should be more than just a little concerned.
The California Attorney’s General office raised the red flags on YTB, aka Your Travel Biz, recently with a 25 million dollar law suit. Now mlmwatchdog reports that a 100 million dollar class action law suit has been filed by a St. Louis legal firm and that the Illinois AG is working with the California AG.
MLM Watchdog Story
The red flags were being rasised on YTB long ago. There is no reason anyone should be caught off guard. Check out this link. Reality Check
Critical thinking network marketers that I know had no problem seeing the red flags right away years ago.
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written by mentor
\\ tags: Attorney General, Illegal Pyramid, MLM WatchDog, Red Flags, Scam, Your Travel Biz, YTB
Aug 06
What do we have here. A ponzi scheme? An illegal pyramid? Any wrong doing at all?
On August 1st, reports came in that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia had frozen all assets of Ad Surf Daily, also known on the internet as ASD.
No charges have been filed. But likely only because the investigation is still in progress.
Read all about it in the local newspaper’s internet site. Hopefully this site will be available at this link for a while. If not, just do a google search.
REPORT
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: ASD, Mentoring For Free, MLM WatchDog, Pyramid, Scam
Aug 05
I have been teaching people how to avoid pyramid schemes and scams for years. You only need to know some basics to avoid these pyramid schemes and scams. It’s like having your own crystal ball.
“YourTravelBiz.com operates a gigantic pyramid scheme that is immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else,” Attorney General Brown said. “Today’s lawsuit seeks to shut down the company’s unlawful operation before more people are exploited by the scam.”
The above quote comes directly from the office of the Attorney General for the State of California. You can view the news release here…. http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1596&
Knowledgeable people in the network marketing industry immediately reported, YTB, or Your Travel Biz, as being a pyramid when they first looked at the program. The same was true of Burnlounge, another publicly traded illegal pyramid. When they were sued, they terminated the MLM program within days in hopes of surviving. Note that YTB had just last month announced plans to change to a franchised based pay plan. See http://www.ytb.com/downloads/franchiseInfo.pdf
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: Attorney General, Crystal Ball, Illegal Pyramid, MLM WatchDog, Pyramid, Scam, Your Travel Biz, Yourtravelbiz.com, YTB
Jul 17
How important is it to put yourself in the best possible position for MLM Success? How important is it to choose a 5 Pillars MLM company to build? What is the value of experienced MLM management with integrity?
YTB is in the news again. They always do a great job of putting a positive spin to distributors on negative news. Can they do it again.
On July 15, 2008, Mr. Scott Tomer, Chief Executive Officer of YTB International, Inc. (the “Company”), announced that the Company is contemplating the replacement of its referring travel agent (”RTA”) business model with the implementation of a franchise operating system, potentially in 2009.
From Rod Cook and his MLM Watchdog site, we get more news on YTB. I am just going to send you to his site and let him show your what is going on and let him comment. After all he is well respected in MLM and loves to bring information to the people. Rod exposes MLM companies doing wrong. He exposes scams. But he is not one sided. He backs up companies being unfairly attacked.
Here is the link to the MLM Watchdog YTB Reports.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: 5 Pillars, MLM Success, MLM WatchDog, Rod Cook, YTB
Jun 26
It is unfortunate, but our industry suffers from unscrupulous people taking advantage of other people who do not always critical thinkers. Think MLM SCAMS.
As gasoline prices continue to rise the MLM gasoline scams keep showing up on the seen.
One site that I use for information on scams and wrong doing in our industry is MLM WatchDog. Rod Cook, who owns this site, just happens to have been put into a position where he had to learn about the legal vs. illegal in regards to marketing of gasoline additives.
So rather than me tell you what to watch out for and why you should be running from all of them, let’s let Rod tell you at his site. The main site is MLM WatchDog.
There is a link on the main page titled, “MLM Gasoline Shame“. The link takes you to the first of five reports on the page. You can see all five links at the top right of the page.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: Distributors Rights Association, Gasoline Scams, Mentoring For Free, MLM Scams, MLM WatchDog, Rod Cook
photographed persons angle, maybe he could not see those red flags. The closer he looks the more likely it is that he will notice that he is in trouble. He should be more than just a little concerned.