ACN Direct Scam?

[dennis in se pa]

Anyone here have any experience with these people? They conned someone I know into giving them $500 for the "license" to be a reseller for them. It is a MLM scheme. Looking for intelligent input from the PPOT braintrust. Any outfit that requires $500, or any amount upfront, in order for you to sell their product is a scam. There must be a way to "out" these people. Thank you.

[GWN7]

About 5 min with a Google search gave me enough info to determine that ACN is a scam/multi level marketing/fraud.

"$500 to join which gets you more or less the right to call their head office for questions and a super awesome “ACN verification number” or some crap. then you make almost NO commission on your own sales or even the sales of people directly under you, but people 3-4 levels down on the pyramid’s sales start making you money (this is the exact opposite of how a normal healthy marketing business would compensate people)"

Ask your friend how many people they know who own video phones now?

[john70t]

(No comment or opinion on the subject.)
Internet database manipulation might be a problem in the future....if not now.

Doing a quick search using terms "corporate lookup ACN Direct" returns positive indications on the validity of the corporation.
Bing engine returned on the first page: corporate lookup ACN Direct - Bing

Wikipedia says:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACN_Inc.
"ACN began operations in the US in 1995 as American Communications Network"

[beepbeep]

Ponzi scheme repacked to be (barely) legal...

[dennis in se pa]

Of course I did a search before posting the above.
It seems the only ones who make money doing this are the ones who scam the next guy into paying the $500 for basically nothing.
This person I know is in denial.
There is just no helping some people.

[KFC911]

What's the saying? "You can't fix stupid..."

[mreid]

"There's I sucker born every minute", might be more appropriate.

[azasadny]

Scam, just like Acai (Mona Vie), Amway, Shaklee, Excel, etc...