Have you ever been deceived into a pyramid scheme?

I have had such an experience. I remember that I had just graduated from a technical school. Working in Guangdong, we are very naive as we have just emerged from society. I never thought that the squad leader who treated me like a brother in the past would join a MLM organization, and I never thought that he would come to lie to us.

Not long after I went to work, I received a call from him saying that his factory there needed people. He was doing well now and asked me to come over and join him. The wages and benefits were relatively good. I quit my job and went to look for him. On the first day, he and a girl I didn’t know came to pick me up. I thought she was his girlfriend at the time and even called her sister-in-law. Later he smiled and said he was their manager.

I didn’t care. They took me back to his rental house. After putting down my things, he said he would take me around. I got car sick at the time and didn’t really want to go out. He didn't care about urging me to leave, but I had no choice but to follow them out and wander around. Because of my trust in him, I didn't have much money when I resigned, so I kept the fare, thinking that I could go to work directly after I came here. , also includes food and accommodation. I only have ten dollars on me.

When I go shopping, for a foodie like me, I definitely want to buy something delicious when I see it. I just wanted to buy a hot dog and eat one, but I was stopped and told that I couldn’t eat it and told me to wait. We can eat when we go back. I wanted to buy something but was stopped several times. At that time, I didn’t think that he would lie to me. I just thought what’s going on, my mother-in-law, it’s so much trouble to buy something to eat. Seeing that I always wanted to buy something to eat, after stopping me a few times, maybe they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to stop me later, so they took me back to my hotel.

When I got back to my place, the squad leader asked me to give him my cell phone. I didn’t suspect anything, so he asked me to go to bed. Before I woke up, I heard someone asking me to get up to eat. Oh my God, I suddenly saw a bunch of people sitting around two folding tables in the living room. Where were they waiting to eat? I was still stupid at that time. I felt that the squad leader was very good, and he even asked someone to come and pick me up. I sat down and saw that the dishes in front of me, including shredded potatoes, vegetables, and a plate of fish, were gone. I suddenly felt that something was wrong. At this time, the tall and thin man next to me stood up and said, a new friend came today. I will sing a song for everyone. Before singing, I will introduce myself. My name is "Liu Bode" from Henan. I introduced my basic situation and then sang a song. This tone-deaf guy makes me want to cover my ears, but they still sing well while laughing. Then they dragged me desperately and asked me to introduce myself and sing a song. I introduced my basic information and said that I was tone-deaf and I would not sing the song. But they didn't want to, so our monitor reminded me I said just sing a song. When I saw this, I roared out a song called "Xiaowei" and then got ready to eat. Before eating, they all introduced themselves. They were from all over the world, from Henan, Guangxi, and Hubei. Yes, from Shandong.

After dinner, there was only a fish in the middle, and everything else was cabbage, potatoes, radishes, and not even tofu. He didn't seem to have any appetite, so he just took a few bites of food and stopped eating. When I went to bed at night, I discovered that the group of people I just had dinner with all lived here. The room I slept in was the boys' room, and the girls were in another room. Now I really doubted it.

The next day, he took me to wander around for another day. When I went back to eat at noon and evening, there was no fish, only vegetables, potatoes, and radishes, without any oil or water at all. He never told me about work or anything like that, he just told me to have fun.

On the third day, when he wanted to take me out for a walk again, I said, do you have a job? If not, then I'll ask my sister to pick me up. Later, the two of them went to chat for a while and then said they would take me to learn about the work. They took me to a community and went up to the second floor. There were only two people in the room: me and the monitor, so I asked him, where are you from and why are you doing this? He just told me to take me to understand the work with their manager, and I didn't say anything. At this time, someone pushed the door open and came in.

My squad leader suddenly pulled me up and introduced me to the so-called manager in a loud voice, and he asked us to sit down. As soon as we finished doing that, they told me a bunch of random things. Anyway, I didn't understand it at the time, but I knew it was probably a pyramid scheme, because several of our classmates were deceived when we were doing internships before, and the school even started studying it. I was confused, and I was still feeling sad that our squad leader, my good brother, and my good brother had deceived me, when the conversation ended. The manager asked me to go back and think about it carefully, but I didn't say anything. I went out directly. At that time, I really wanted to go home. After I left the door, I waited for him to come out and asked him to take my mobile phone. He said I shouldn’t be impulsive, so I looked at him and saw that he didn’t want to give me my mobile phone at all. After thinking about it, I pinched the last ten dollars in my pocket. I followed them back and didn't go out to eat at lunch. I didn't leave the room until night. I was thinking, what should I do, because on the way back, they were following me left and right, making it impossible for me to contact outsiders, let alone see the police from a distance. So I avoided it. When I went to bed at noon, they locked the door. Without the key, I couldn't open the door. There was also a so-called family director who guarded the door in the living room and couldn't get out.

This is the fourth day, because I was uncooperative when I came back yesterday. Maybe they weren't sure they could stop me, so they stopped taking me out to study. Then they invited another director to come and brainwash me until the eighth day. When he saw me, he didn’t say he would do it or not do it. His attitude was quite good. He said he should eat, live and study. Later, they discussed it and took me out to another director's home. There was a manager waiting for me. When he came in, he ignored the inducements of the previous managers and just scolded me and smashed me. A stool. I was thinking at that time, it seems they can't bear it any longer. Today is my only chance. If I can't run out today, I have no choice but to ask for money from my family. Otherwise, I don't know if I will survive.

After contacting me, the person who came with our monitor said to me, "Are you okay? That manager has a bit of a bad temper. I'm really embarrassed. But he's doing it for your own good." I looked at the hypocritical face in front of me. In order to lower their defense line, I said yes and scolded him. I was really shocked. I joined. I will call now. Come and get my phone. Me. He looked at me and said with a smile, "We went back and studied the fight to see how we can get the money!" Then the three of us were chatting and laughing on the way back. This time they still took me to a secluded path and did not dare to go to the main road. Maybe they were still on guard against me. I was a little anxious at this time. We were about to reach the place where we lived after passing the intersection in front. If I couldn't find the opportunity, I was really doomed. At this time, two people walked towards me. Looking at their walking posture, I felt like soldiers. I saw that our squad leader and another person seemed to have noticed it, and when they were about to take me to the alley, I pushed the squad leader hard and ran in the direction of those two people, shouting "killer, killer" as I ran. . Sure enough, when the two men heard the sound, they immediately turned around and saw me running towards them, with two men chasing me. He turned around and ran toward me. When my squad leader and others saw that something was wrong, they turned around and ran to a crowded place. After a few seconds, they disappeared from sight.

At this time, two soldiers rushed to me and asked what was going on. I told them what happened. They took me to the police station to report the crime, but when the police station arrived, the building was empty and no one had been arrested.

I didn’t have a dime on me at that time, so I borrowed a phone from the police station and asked my eldest sister to pick me up. All the clothes, documents and documents were lost. I also returned to my hometown. From then on, I didn’t dare to run around, nor did I dare to trust others. I became a little suspicious.