Twenty years ago the website known as the WorldWide Scam Network investigated, analyzed, researched, reported on, parodied and exposed many of the worst multilevel marketing pyramid schemes and scams that flooded the newly developed Internet. Con artists and criminals offered numerous get-rich-quick schemes involving crazy phony products, gadgets, gimmicks and MLM opportunities that promised unimaginable wealth to people willing to involve their friends and family in promoting and selling nonsense products and services. One of the worst recruitment commission schemes was called "Travelogia.com" which marketed an online travel program that eventually sued the WWSN for $7.6 million dollars - and was thrown out of court. What follows is a fictionalized account of that confrontation.
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The WorldWide Scam Network Presents
Adventures In MLM Paradise
The Travelogia.com MLM Scam
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An MLM Trip To Nowhere!
CHAPTER ONE - "Another Day, Another Scam"
The new WWSN headquarters were still under construction and there was a lot of work to do before we'd be fully operational. Nevertheless, our new off-shore location and technology upgrades made going to work something I actually looked forward to. As I left that morning, I stopped to take a moment and enjoy the beauty of our new Caribbean home. It all seemed so peaceful - how could I have guessed what lay ahead?
I walked to my jeep for the short ride to HQ, armed and ready for anything, but confident in the knowledge that our new facilities, communications equipment, supercomputers, and powerful weaponry would give us the edge we needed to defeat any multi-level marketing scam.
After parking my jeep I jumped out and started walking across the sand towards steps that led up to the WWSN entrance for our standard 06:00 AM daily briefing. It was a beautiful day, with the bright Caribbean sun and a warm ocean breeze coming in from across the bay.
I circled around to the west end of the building and smiled as I watched the WWSN banners gently waving in the soft tropical wind.
