Author: /u/CookieBobojiBuggo

Hello Houston, I hope everyone is ready for the weekend. Stay Hydrated.

Today I am bringing you another one of these MLM Scams. Originally I had thought that I would find maybe 2-3 of these. There are more than 2-3. Now you might say “Well, we kind of know what to look out for now”, but these scammers are very adept at masking their operations. So if I see ones that really stick out, and pretend to be something they are not, I will post it.

Today’s clown show is called Five Nine Solutions Inc. They are located in Yorktown Plaza on W Alabama St. I am not sure if they are a franchise of Smart Circle, Credico or Cydcor. But they are, again , like always, one of your “WE ARE GONNA HELP YOU BECOME A BUSINESS MASTERMIND AND OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS” type of recruitment pyramid scheme.

What is a recruitment pyramid scheme? Its a position in which you are lured in with the promise of a comfortable paycheck, but have to do door to door sales( or stand in walmarts/sam’s clubs) and build your team to move up in the company. How do you build your team? You recruit people. From the tens of hundreds of interviews these jokers get in a month, they will try to keep as many of them as possible. It is your responsibility as a worker of one of these scams to lie through your teeth to keep these poor people sucked into the funnel. When you have a certain amount of recruits you move up in the company. And afterwards when your recruits move up, you also move up. Hence the pyramid. You pay with your time, energy, gas, and even money at times.

Now that that’s out of the way, lets get into it.

These guys sell At&t door to door. They dress up in suits and play “business people” in the morning before getting stuffed into cars and hauled out to random lower income zipcodes around the city. They go as south as Texas City, and as north as Conroe. The “owner” (whose name i wont give because i dont want the post taken down, but he is super easily identifiable after a quick search) makes himself seem like an amazing business owner that gives hundreds of people opportunities, yet is simply another one of these cronies that is trying to secure his own pocket.

It is either full commission or $10 an hour with a cap at $432 per week. Your car will breakdown from driving around. You are not reimbursed for gas, or food. The working hours are stated as 8:30-5:00 but in reality its 7 am to 8 pm. New workers are forced to write 5 star reviews on google. If you read in between the lines, the 5 star reviews say the exact same thing. Its very obvious that they have some sort of a script.

They make you go through a 3-day interview process, only based on your personal qualifications, not professional qualifications. They will advertise themselves as a marketing agency, but they are a Sales company that bleeds your average person dry. As an actual marketer, every time i see them put themselves out there as a marketing agency it makes my skin crawl.

Once you are hired, you are given a script filled with manipulation techniques so you can go ahead and sell At&t to people who are small business owners. The packages you sell to them have hidden costs that screw over your small business owner at the end of the day. Expect calls from angry business owners about how you screwed them over.

The owner is from the bay area, first moved to Tennessee and opened a scam office there. And then decided to come down to our beautiful Houston and open an office here. He prominently displays himself as a big business guy and is very actively creating some sort of cult of personality within his office. So if you see his face plastered around the website and on the business social media profiles pay attention to the wording and the captions.

Here is an honest review on google : ” If I could give them 0 start . This company are literally a scam in disguise . They will not be upfront with you . They will waste your time by giving you the back and forth interview rounds . To finally propose you the penny offer .

So unprofessional. Also most of this reviews must be fake “

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Thank you guys as always.

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TLDR; Five nine solutions inc is a scam. Jobseekers beware.

Hello Houston, I hope everyone is having a wonderful day, if not just know that it will get better.

Todays MLM Pyramid Scheme is Dunairos Enterprises

Dunairos Enterprises is located by the Space Center in Webster. I was unable to conclude whether they are a franchise of Cydcor, Credico or Smart Circle. But what is clear is that:

1) They are a typical recruitment/pyramid scheme.

2) The “owner” Desiree Richardson will steal percentages on the small sales that the reps get. So on top of only getting comission, the comission rate is cut down even further because Dunairos Enterprises owner Desiree Richardson will steal your money for herself.

Dunairos Enterprises makes you go through “3” interviews. The quotation marks are there because if you act slightly interested, can breathe, and have a car you will be offered the job after the second interview because they are “Growing” and “rapidly expanding for their client”. This is a complete lie, they are constantly hiring because of their ridiculous turnover rates.

Their client is Frontier Internet, they go door-to-door try to sell crappy internet for “cheap” to various mid to lower income level neighborhood businesses. They will claim to have “established customers” however they are simply people who they’ve bothered 2-3 times already.

The job is 100% comission, if you do not get a sale for that day…well too bad you just wasted your gas, time and energy for no reason. Negativity is completely shunned, you are demonized for showing any kind of negative emotion,even though its part of being a human being. You are expected to keep a positive attitude NO MATTER WHAT, this is simply behavior control. You will be bombarded with cult-like MLM language to use on people. You will spend 10+ hours a day either going door-to-door, or in traffic, and will only get back about ~$275-$300 per week. That comes to about roughly $6 per hour if it was a salary job. But its not, so theres no guarantee of any pay. Despite this you will see reps smiling and having fun in all of their posts. But you rarely see the same rep in more than 1-2 pictures.

Dunairos enterprises website is here: https://www.dunairosenterprises.com/, You cannot tell what they do or what the operations are like through any of the pages. Desiree Richardson tries very very hard to keep the facade of a legitimate sales firm, however to the trained eye it is red flags everywhere. If you look in the photos where everyone is dressed in suits and around white boards, the language on the whiteboards will tell you that its an MLM Recruitment/Pyramid Scheme disguised as a business. They want you to open up another scam office, but in order to do that you need to recruit people they get in for interviews and have them stick in the company.

One aspect that was very frightening was the use of social justice on their posts. On Dunairos’ social media pages Desiree will often post content that is social justice and Black Lives Matter oriented. It is simply hypocritical that Desiree claims that her business supports black lives, yet individuals who have been scammed by this company (customer and employee) that have contacted me are also black. Hypocritical and disgusting.

Their google reviews are filled with fake 5 star reviews they make their employees post. If you look through the comments you will see a clear pattern” blah blah blah *insert name of employee* helped me out and was amazing, highly recommend”.

Thats all I have for you guys on this scam. Thank you as always.

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TLDR; Dunairos Enterprises is a Recruitment/Pyramid Scheme, ran by Desiree Richardson. They operate out of Webster and go door-to-door selling Frontier Internet. Beware.

Hello Houston,

It’s been a while! These things take some time to dig up and also life was happening pretty fast. But alas, I am back and I am here to bring you BY FAR the scummiest of all the MLM schemes i found so far. It is so bad that the owner is listed on the DevilCorp website. This is Business Legacy Development:

The reason that this particular “business” is worse than others is the “owner”s relentless defense of his pyramid scheme, and crafty responses to people with criticism, in order to negate the criticism and manipulate the 3rd party who will be reading the comments. So this post will be less about the company, and more about the man behind it, Ramy Sindi.

Ramy Sindi is a master manipulator who became a Cydcor employee, and moved up in the pyramid to open his office in Kentucky in 2015. Later this Kentucky office was forced to close due to various forms of sexual misconduct between multiple workers. A worker whom i’ve spoke to on the phone has said that if you want to move up you either need to sleep with Rami or you need to butter up to him. This might sound unbelieveable but from my experience in Majesty Marketing I can confidently say that owners routinely slept with workers. It was known and was treated as a hush hush subject.

As usual there are many fake 5 star reviews by previous employees.

If you go to the Glassdoor reviews page and set the ratings to the lowest, you will be met with multiple 1 star reviews that go into detail with the most recent one letting everyone know that this is a Cydcor Franchise. The main complaints repeat in other various negative comments on the web and on glassdoor and they are as follows:

• Pay Structure: It is as almost always 100% commission. There is a “base pay” but you need a certain number of sales, and there are always problems. Through my interviews with ex workers I’ve learned that most people barely make any money. Ramy Sindi follows with “If people barely make any money why would i have a couple of employees that have been with me for 2 years”. and he also makes the claim that on average his employees make 45k-60k per year, but this is impossible to prove since most people leave after 2 weeks-a month. The average employee will receive 150-270$ per week.
• The Work: It again, like 90% of these is a DOOR TO DOOR SALES job. Due to the secretive nature people do not learn what the job is until a few hours in on their first day. Rami Sindi claims that people know what they will do on their first interview. I’ve spoken with 4 people that have worked here, and not a single one of them knew what they would be doing until their first day. Rami Sindi also claims that the website tells people exactly what the company does, and credit where its due the website does say that they are a “Sales Company”. But any mention of Door to Door is shut down by Rami Sindi “Its Business to Business”. Except the part where you need to go door to door lol. Again no reimbursement for Gas, Food or any other expenses. The job is also advertised as an entry level marketing and promotions job.
• The Pyramid Scheme: Mr. Sindi conveniently provides the definition of a pyramid scheme and follows it by “See we dont make you purchase anything therefore we are not a pyramid scheme.” While disregarding the Time, Effort, Gas, Energy, Food Money that you need to spend on the daily. Sure you do not by a product in the company to sell outside, but in order to move up, you need to recruit people. The pyramid model does not lie. More Sales = More New recruits=More chances to move up. Even in the sales aspect, the pyramid model remains. Ramy Sindi also counters this by saying “If we were a pyramid scheme why would Amazon, Staples or Vivint Smart Home be our clients?”. Ramy completely leaves out the part that those firms work with Cydcor, Ramy’s parent company, and not with Ramy personally. Ramy Sindi does what Cydcor tells him to do, he is not a business owner. He simply is a franchisee for Cydcor.
• Turnover: People quit every week. Shocker huh? Not really. Rami has 2 employees that have been with him for 2 years. Everyone else is a revolving door. Unfortunately they always get new people in, due to the lack of negative reviews and Rami’s flagging and removing of the negative comments. It is simply a devilcorp franchise and when people realize it, they bounce.

Another thing Ramy keeps babbling about is being acredited by “Best and Brightest companies to work for” and “Fair Business Report”, I’ll spare you the boring details. Upon searching ,the only companies listed on these are other scam locations. It seems like this was created by the head honchos to make their franchises look legit, and not pseudo-businesses.

At the end of every large reply about how the negative review is simply wrong and there is nothing wrong with his business, Ramy Sindi will feign niceness and claim that everyone is free to call their office and get answers about their business structure….Well I called Ramy’s office and upon informing the person who answered that I was conducting some research, I was recording the call and wanted to ask questions to Ramy, the phone was hung up on my face. After a few more unsuccessful tries, I realized that my number was blocked.

These are simply the highlights, this human highlight reel is on the DeviCorp website under owners who promote the pyramid scheme and take advantage of people looking for jobs.

As always, feel free to reach out to me with information on any of these scams, and thank you for your continued support.

TLDR: Legacy Business Development is ran by Ramy Sindi and is a MLM Pyramid Structure that takes advantage of job seekers. Be aware and Do not fall for his manipulation techniques.

Hello All.

As I’ve stated in my previous posts regarding Kingsway Inc. and Majesty Marketing, these types of posts will be a series. I appreciate all the support and messages with information on various schemes. Keep them coming. Please upvote and share in order to spread the message.

If you have looked at any kind of Houston MLM scam posts on reddit or google, you will always end up at 5821 Southwest Fwy Ste. 330. This office located in Galleria Oak Towers (an extremely sketchy looking office building), is host to not 2, not 3, but 8 total MLM Recruitment Schemes (6 active and 2 closed down). I decided to pick this address not only because I’ve been there (during my 2.5 months with the scam Majesty Marketing, we had been to this office 2 times and I’ve met the head honcho multiple times). But because of the ridiculous amounts of “businesses” they run through this address. Their lobby always has 10-30 people on average in the mornings, waiting to be interviewed. I would like for their potential victims to have something objective to look at if they do some research and come across multiple reddit posts on this address. It was very difficult to find information on a few of the “companies”.

These are your typical Cult meeting office, drive for hours to random zipcodes, sell AT&T door to door/ Stand in front of Walmart try to sign people up to a charity type of businesses. The types of MLM recruitment schemes where you will work 50-60 hours only to make $200 that week. These devilcorp businesses take advantage of the recently graduate, people who are looking for a career change, people who are desperate for a job and people who don’t know any better.

Before judging how people could fall for this scam, remember that when you are desperate you overlook red flags and if you dont know this operation style its easy for them to get you.

Multiple companies have closed and opened through this address. Also multiple companies have changed their names. Here is a list of what I was able to find through various sources on the address 5821 SouthWest FWY STE 330 ;

• The Bright Light Group Inc. (Door to Door AT&T Scam, has the lowest rating out of all the businesses that operate from this address, and because of this, it’s the most “hidden”)
• Ready Marketing Group (Charity Scam, Owner claims its Dallas based but it operates in Houston.)
• The Gold Standard/Interactive Inc. (AT&T Scam, door to door. This scam office and Majesty Marketing(another scam office) exchange different low income area zipcodes around Houston for their employees to drive to)
• BluStone Houston ( The main guy of the office is also the head of this. If you see the main asian guy that gives half the speeches and does the morning meetings, this is his company. IT HAS 0 NEGATIVE REVIEWS AND STILL OPERATES. They do Charity and AT&T scams)
• UPro Universal Inc. (Another At&t scam, also tied to the asian owner, originally formed in MA, but got moved to Houston)
• Market Value Inc. and Fox Force (closed)
• Blue Label Concepts, Rg 8 international (closed)

These are all the companies operating out of this office. When you walk in, the lobby is almost always filled with people that are waiting on interviews. If you check out any of their job postings, it’s all the same deal; ambiguous language, no clear explanation of what the job is, must have a car, etc. ONE THING THAT IS COMMON TO THIS OFFICE IS BEING SCHEDULED FOR AN INTERVIEW WITHOUT EVEN APPLYING TO ANY OF THEIR SCAMS. If you have your resume up on any job site, they can and will contact you.

I have not been able to establish whether they are Cydcor or Credico franchises. Elana Diaz who is the devilcorp regional manager has left 5 star reviews on most of these offices so that makes me believe that they are Credico Franchises.

Here is a review from Ready Marketing: “This place is a scam. They have contacted me several times under different names pretending to be separate companies, but it’s just one company. $150 per week & 10hr days, sales commission is the only way to really earn money and it’s by getting people to donate to charities.”

Here is another one: “The interview lasts 3 minutes. They speak so fast you can’t even internalize what’s being said. They don’t explain the job, pay, or anything about the company. They don’t ask a single question about yourself either. They end it with saying “we have over 800 applicants. We will call between 4-6 if you have a more in depth 2nd interview”. Umm. The 1st one was 90 seconds and didn’t explain a lick of anything. People were shuffled like hurds of cows. Scam job.”

Fake 5 star reviews are plastered all over their google pages as well. I’ve had a person who reach out to me explaining that the company will make them write 5 star reviews when they get too much negative press. This is also in line with Majesty Marketing. These offices talk to each other and try to coordinate different techniques so their sham businesses do not look like the scam centers that they actually are.

Here is a quick anecdote from a redditor who worked for one of these scams a few months back: “Terrible, I’ve had to drive an hour and half to sell door to door in a terrible neighborhood, my leader and i were being catcalled and she made it seem like “oh its ok, just another day at the office, when youre an owner you dont need to go out into the field” and i felt extremely uncomfortable, i left the next day.”

These are the types of experiences to expect from 5821 SouthWest Fwy STE 330. I have a ton of information yet i cannot put all of it on here, but be vigilant and let your friends and people around you know! Thank you to everyone who reached out. I’ve got a few more places in the pipeline. Please stay safe out there and don’t drive distracted.

TL,DR; 5821 Southwest Fwy Ste 330 has 6 active MLM recruitment schemes operating from it. The names are listed. Beware.

Hello Everyone,

I feel like making this a regular thing, firstly because I want to warn as many people as possible to the potential Amway style, DevilCorp scams. Secondly, because for people who are desperate or just getting into the job market, there aren’t any warnings of this particular scam style.

So as I discover more scams, I will be posting them on here, with the aim of having the post show up on first page of google, so people can be aware of what they are getting into.

This particular company is called KINGSWAY INC., they contacted me out of nowhere saying they have received my job application (I didn’t apply to them) and that they liked my resume and want to set up an interview. The wording is very misleading, because they tell you that you are accepted for an interview and want you to show up as soon as possible (Red flag). I will attach an image of their email to me and their website.

Again, bunch of bullcrap about “Work with fortune 500 clients (red flag), our clients are relying on us for their growth.(red flag)” If you look at their website their clients are Walmart, Staples etc. Do you think walmart and staples rely on a little scam office for their “growth”? Anyways. When you’ve been in one of these you can smell the rest of em out really quickly. Ambiguous language (red flag), no idea what the job is (red flag), shitty tabloid website(red flag), contacting you out of the blue(red flag).

Little research later, they are a scam, where you’d have to drive all day, or be on your feet all day, and they sell you the dream of being a business owner. Classic DevilCorp.

They are called Kingsway Inc. There is barely anything on them on google, they are getting smarter and not allowing any google comments of any sort or putting themselves out there because they are aware they will be flooded with negative reviews.

This is their website: http://www.kingswayinc.com/

and this is the email i’ve received from them: https://imgur.com/a/ZFMH5gO

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Thank you for your time, I will be posting more of these scammers so people of Houston can be aware.

Hello All, Join me as I explain my journey in this “company”.

The firm is called Majesty Marketing, formerly “Southern Acquisitions Firm Inc.” they are a franchise of Credico. They changed their name due to the amazing number of negative reviews online (the positive reviews are by people who are in management and actively push the pyramid scheme, or management from the other offices they work with within houston, No honest review has given this place over 2 stars).

My first interview I did not understand what the job entails, and my questions were met with strategically created responses to make you feel ok, but do not give you a straight answer to what the job is. If you act slightly interested, have a car, and can breathe, you get chosen for the second round interview. The person who does your second round interview is your leader.

In the second round interview you are told the same mumbo jumbo about how they work with fortune 500 companies and make you think the job is an important job where you will get crucial experience in marketing and account management. And then they will show you the opportunity pyramid, will try to entice you with the promise of a large comfortable paycheck. THIS IS EXTREMELY PREDATORY TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING, I wasn’t in a bad position but who doesnt want to make good money while “Owning their business”. I had other plans for my future but for the time being it seemed to make sense.

If you make it to the second round interview, you pretty much have the job. They will say some s**t like “we are gonna wrap up the interview process and go over people”. No. You got the job. The manipulation begins before you even start “Working”. The Front Desk girl (who is HR but it pisses her off so im gonna use it here) also HR, but is really the owners friend and parrot will call you and inform you that you’re hired. I was very naive and happy.

Your first day in the office resembles that of a cult meeting, after you’re done with your paperwork , you will be pulled into the “hang back/atmosphere” where people use indoctrination language. Hey guys? Hey what? High Rollers etc. You are given a training packet with all the information about the systems, see factors, Systems, attitude, work ethic. Youre not human, if you feel bad you need to have a better attitude, if you do good its because you follow the systems, if you do bad its because you dont follow the systems. For the sake of this post im gonna keep it short, but you are essentially being conditioned to accept the business and never find faults in it, and find all the faults in yourself. Youre pushed to hold the manager and the other owners in high regard as if they were some paragon of virtue and business, they are simply people who take advantage of enough people to get to a position so they can take advantage of more people and make money.

NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY, YOUR JOB WILL BE TO SELL AT&T DOOR TO DOOR. THEY WILL CLAIM ITS B2B BUT ITS JUST A FANCY TERM THEY USE SO YOU DONT QUESTION THE DOOR TO DOOR ASPECT OF IT. YOURE LITERALLY GOING FROM BUSINESS DOOR TO BUSINESS DOOR. YOU ARE NOT REIMBURSED FOR YOUR DRIVING, YOU PAY FOR GAS AND FOOD OUT OF YOUR OWN POCKET,SOME TERRITORIES YOU GO TO ARE OVER AN HOUR AWAY WITHOUT TRAFFIC.

After your first week, you’re solo. You need to prove to the company that you can do this by having 4 att customers. After that its leadership. You are constanly bugged and bothered to join Business Trips and other s**t that is not in your contract, youre expected to let go of your personal life, and associate only with the business. team nights, taco tuesdays, etc. are just manipulation techniques so you can get more invested in the business and the people in it so it is harder for you to leave.

After solo you get to be a leader, congratulations, now you are expected to manipulate other people who are looking desperately for a job. And you are expected to train them, without an extra dime on your paycheck.

YOUR FIRST PAYCHECK WILL NEVER BE ABOVE 300$. YOU WILL NOT GET PAID YOUR FIRST 3 WEEKS. ON AVERAGE YOUR WEEKLY PAYCHECK WILL BE BETWEEN $300-450.

In order to get paid, you need installs, but there are ALWAYS problems with the installs. For every sale you make the manager makes 40% ATT gets their cut, and you will get pennies. Only the managers and one other person in the office isnt struggling. Everyone else is almost always short on money or barely getting by.

After a few months of bullcrap, the thing that irked me was the ridiculous miles on my car and not getting anything back for it, I started doing some research and found out about this operation style. I pretty much gotten taken advantage of, I told a trainee to run away. Very soon I left the company.

TL,DR; To anyone who wants to work for Majesty Marketing in Houston, DONT. EXTREMELY PREDATORY BUSINESS PRACTICES, YOU WILL BE MANIPULATED AND TRICKED INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING GOOD, YOU ARE SIMPLY WASTING YOUR TIME, MONEY AND GAS TO SELL AT&T DOOR TO DOOR WITHOUT ANY SUBSTANTIAL REWARDS. YOU ARE SIMPLY ASKED TO FEED THE PYRAMID SO THE PEOPLE ABOVE CAN GET PROMOTED, AND YOU CAN GET PROMOTED BY SUCKING PEOPLE INTO THE FUNNEL.

OTHER VARIOUS OFFICES IN HOUSTON THAT DO SAME THINGS INCLUDE: THE GOLD STANDARD, GROUP ONE, INTERACTIVE INC AND READY MARKETING GROUP. ALL OF THESE COMPANIES WILL HAVE THE SAME MODEL OF BUSINESS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SAVE YOURSELVES. RUN AWAY FROM THEM.

BEWARE, THESE SCAMMERS UTILIZE VERY METICULOUS BEHAVIOR CONTROL AND MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE IN THIS TYPE OF BUSINESS. REACH OUT TO THEM AND TRY TO HELP THEM GET OUT OF IT.

THEY DO NOT POST ON GLASSDOOR BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN LEAVE REVIEWS ON GLASSDOOR. THEY ACTIVELY FLAG AND REPORT EVERY SINGLE BAD REVIEW OF THEM ON GOOGLE. HOW DO YOU THINK A COMPANY CAN HAVE 5.0 STARS? NOT A SINGLE BAD REVIEW? SKETCHY.

Thank you.