Internet Scams

Amway and Quixtar scam are both part of the Alticor family of companies. Amway Corporation was founded in 1959 by Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel In 1999 Quixtar, Amway and Quixtar scam are officially termed multilevel marketing businesses which in truth are no more then legal pyramid schemes .

The Amway and Quixtar Scam primarily deals with, Artistry Skin Care and Color Cosmetics, Nutrilite Vitamins and Food Supplements, the eSpring Water Purifying System, and the SA8 Laundry System products

Feeding off the American dream of getting rich quick and easy the basic formula for the Quixtar scam is simple.

First, there is the "Company", which has a product or array of products. Second, there are the independent distributors who (a) sell the Company product and (b) recruit new distributors who do the same, ad infinitum if possible.

The reason distributors don't just sell the Company product is that they receive "bonuses" for sales made by their recruits. Theoretically, the richest independent distributor would have dozens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of subordinate distributors who would be doing the actual selling, while the Big One did little or no selling of the Company product at all.

That is, the emphasis of MLM schemes and the Quixtar Scam. It is not selling the Company product but selling the Company itself.

It is possible to succeed as an independent distributor but more than likely you will end up alienating some family and friends. You will probably end up buying more stuff than you sell. And you will learn a lot about deceiving yourself and others.

Some of the more Interesting rules enforced by Amway and Quixtar are below.

The Direct Distributor or the sponsoring distributor will buy back any unused marketable products from a distributor whose inventory is not moving or who wishes to leave the business. Amway enforces the buy­back rule.

To ensure that distributors do not attempt to secure the performance bonus solely on the basis of purchases, Amway requires that, to receive a performance bonus, distributors must resell at least 70% of the products they have purchased each month.

The “ten­customer rule” provides that distributors may not receive a performance bonus unless they prove a sale to each of ten different retail customers during each month.

Amway & Quixtar fast facts:

According to Quixtar's own disclosure document the average monthly gross income for an "active" IBO is $115 (or $1,380 annually).

In the Amway business, only 41% meet these criteria as being "active." This also means that 59% of all distributors are NOT active.A with a business where over half of all the people aren't doing anything to increase their business?

Out of ALL distributors, only 0.82% qualifies as a Direct-level distributor. This means that 99.18% of all distributors do not qualify as a Direct-level distributor.A company where 99.18% are unsuccessful.

If you are earning 70$ per month you are in the top 11% of earners at Amway & Quixtar!

You've probably seen lots of ads for these little suckers. They're usually silver in color and look like the front head of a regular coaxial cable (the same wire that your cable guy plugs into your TV). These worthless pieces of garbage were sold for massive profits primarily over eBay from 2001-2003, and scammers are still selling them!

Here's the crackdown on the cable filters...

They DON'T work and leave you with a MASSIVE Pay-Per-View bill! However, this is great news for the cable companies themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the cable companies are the ones putting these devices on the market themselves... They have to make up for all those years of being ripped of by customers stealing free cable from the notorious "black descrambler box". LOL!

Anyway, I've seen this junk pieces being sold upwards of $300.00! And the guys who buy it save nothing on their cable bill, yet incur an even larger one!

The scammers sell these filters as guaranteed signal blockers... This part their being HONEST with, believe it or not. The hi-pass filters DO, in fact, BLOCK communication between your digital cable box and the you cable company "one-way", while the box continues to receive digital signals the "other way".

Put simply, when the filter is put on the cable box (and the cable wire attached to the other end of the filter) it "filters out" all outbound signals - i.e., the "purchased events history" which stored somewhere within the box (I've never seen a hard drive so it's probably stored on a security flash card or some sort) does not get transmitted back to the cable company. So basically you can order porn on pay-per-view all day long and never be charged... At least that's what the scammers tell you.

What happens after a random period of time of your box not communicating with the cable company is that the company puts a "lock" on your box at which point you cannot view digital channels anymore. (Remember, the "one way communication" enabled by the filter allows for INBOUND RECEPTION only... I.e., the cable company can "do stuff" to the box even though it is not receiving data back from the box.)

This is where the would-be cable thief runs into troubles. He's now sitting home with a stubborn box that won't unlock. So he goes and emails the seller, and if the seller (scammer) is nice enough to reply he'll just email back a bullsh*t document which teaches you "various methods of unlocking your digital cable box"... Of which none work. I've read one guy decided to spill some water into the box... All he got was a buncha smoke and a $300 box which had to replaced.

So what happens next? The would-be cable thief might get some annoying inquiry calls from the cable company regarding the blocked communication. Eventually, he'll have to remove the filter and come clean and call up the cable company to have the box unlocked. And I bet you anything these cable guys KNEW what was going on all along, but they just sit there till you've made enough purchases before locking up your box through a local area "freeze signal".

So now the guy has three things on his mind: $300 in lost money for buying a sh*t filter, a huge cable bill, and the desire to pound the bastard who conned him into buying the filter. Of course, the guy can never admit it to his cable company or else...

LOL. Either way the consumer loses. So steer clear of the "digital cable filters"!!!"

These days a lot of people are being suckered into scams. Hmm... Okay, the "old days" weren't much better either, LOL! Except for the prime difference that such things are now happening to the max over the internet rather than in "traditional ways". However, though the game has shifted online, the rules remain the same... Find, fu*k, forget. Okay, maybe that didn't come out sounding exactly on topic, but that's basically what it is. Scammers lure unsuspecting consumers into their traps and run with the cash.

The reason I know this is because I’ve been looking for ways to make money on the internet for about 4 years now (since I was 17) that I have grown skeptical of such “opportunities” (and for good reason) to the degree where I spend some leisure time digging up dirt on such offers each week =]

And fortunately I have never fallen prey to such offers because I never had the money to “enroll and reap residual benefits for life”. Also, I wouldn’t really consider all that wasted time to be a complete loss because each time I’ve learned something useful which saved me many problems.

Actually, I've really benefited from all those scammers trying to get me because I now truly believe that you only stand the best odds of success (in anything) if you work hard, persist, and keep learning after the numerous failures that will inevitably come.

There is another thing I've learned from all this (and fairly quickly I might add)... 99% of such offers are outright scams!

Hopefully someone will find answers in this blog and safeguard themselves too! Good luck! P.S. – There is no “joining fee” here. LOL!