My mom was working with a woman at her office who's husband needed help with some website/online marketing work. The lady asked my mom if I could help him out and if I could attend a meeting with him regarding the project he is working on. I agreed as the meeting was on my day off and it looked like it might be a good opportunity to pick up some freelance work. The husband of my mom's coworker was an older gentlemen in his 60s, who I had talked to on the phone and met for the first time at the meeting. The project meeting was at a small country club conference room and was packed with older people (I was probably the youngest one in the room by about 30 years). Everyone there looked like retirees.
As soon as the speaker started, and within the first 2 minutes of their talk, I knew what the meeting was about: It was a sales pitch for an MLM program for a website called Ijango. From what I gleened from the talk, Ijango was basically a shopping web portal that linked to other sites like Amazon and Ebay. The site itself wasn't even built, all they had were a bunch of screen clips of the site in construction. The salesman who did the pitch kept saying that Ijango had an exclusive marketing agreement with Google (which after he explained briefly was just the standard Google Adsense campaign that anyone could get on their website at the time). The pitch meeting was to get people to signup as marketers for Ijango, which was free for the "basic" marketing plan, but if "you really wanted to make money" you had the option to sign up for the deluxe plan which cost $150 and a $25 a month maintenance fee so that you could use Ijango's exclusive "Marketing Tools" to help you sign up people to Ijango.
The whole meeting was a bunch of bullshit, but I stayed just to be polite to the guy that invited me. After the meeting was over, the guy that invited me, who I was thought was going to ask me for some marketing advice/help, asked me "So are you ready to sign-up?" I told the guy I would think about it and left.
The next day the guy calls me on my cell phone while Im at work and asks me if I thought it over and was ready to sign up. I told him that I was not interested and had other things to do. He said to me then that "Well I guess the program is not for everyone." and hung up. Afterwards I called my mom and told her about the meeting and how it seemed to be just an MLM scam. My mom had said that her coworker told her that her husband wasn't going to try to sell me anything and just wanted me to help him with some marketing...which was a lie as the guy just wanted me to be another bottom level in the pyramid.
What made it worse is that after I told the guy that i was not interested, his wife stopped talking to my mom at work.