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My favorite letter writing program is to spend 10 minutes to write a letter to my representatives in congress or senators to support our oppose upcoming bills and initiatives. You'll make $0 per letter but you also don't need to sign up for a scam.
Right??? Can someone with a ton of money set up a program that pays people to write letters to their representatives? Because I have a feeling people would suddenly care a lot more about it lol
Gambling addiction is no frickin' joke... and this is slightly terrifying. You do NOT want to get started on online casinos, even if it starts this "innocently" - it can strip you of every last thing you have. Do NOOOOT do this! Such a dangerous and predatory thing to be promoting. I wouldn't even be surprised if casino bosses were behind this whole scam!
@@robiness6019 I know! Like if someone won way more than £5... that could set them up for a disastrous way of existing after that. Sometimes winning big can be the worst thing to ever happen to someone. Genuinely really concerned about this! The gambling industry is so so predatory and will always win. Always
we’ve really come full circle from “it’s not a pyramid scheme because pyramid schemes don’t sell anything” to “it’s not an mlm because there’s no product to sell”
They sell a course so there is a product, and a generous affiliate program sounds like encouraging you to sign up more people. Imo this is in the MLM category
The jump from "all you have to do is write letters" to "pay for this course, pay the monthly fee, gamble and hope you can get some money back" is INSANE.
you dont have to pay for the monthly course... after they tell you the info you need you just do that. the course is not part of the website that you send the letters into.
@@William47345so what’s stopping anyone from doing it without the course? I don’t get it. I’m at 19:10 rn but she (the RU-vidr creator were watching) said it is actually possible to make 2700/month writing 40 letters a day? That still sounds way too good to be true
If I made 6k per month writing letters, I doubt I'd be wasting my efforts posting on social media about it. If these people wanted to "change people's lives with this easy money" then they wouldn't be begging for engagement and participation from strangers. People with stable incomes that high aren't this desperate (barring serious life issues or past bad financial decisions).
@@kismetcaffet9862 Say it again for the people in the back. People that are making great money aren't going to share how they are doing it. I teach people some things about selling on the internet but I get paid for it and let people know that it is a job just like any other.
Anytime anyone goes on social media, completely unsolicited, and says "I'm making so much money, its so easy, and you can do it too," immediate scam. If it were that easy to be rich, everyone would be rich.
Yep. I own a business and I flat out refuse to give advice to people who want to do what I do. Firstly, I'd be creating my own competition, and secondly, it took me a decade of learning and setbacks and bad decisions, not to mention the money invested and lost, to figure this ish out. You think I'm just going to tell you how to do it so that you and I can compete? Heck no.
Or if they are like “I’ve made so so money doing this and I will teach you how”, that opportunity is gone. Like the audible/kindle scams. Service has already been overrun with low quality books and the opportunity is gone, so they are selling a course to make their money now.
Or even RU-vid. A guy is saying if you are not making 158,000 a year by accounting...blah blah blah. I took accounting in school and it is definitely not my forte, no amount of supposedly buying his book will make it happen. Usually, accounting (a CPA) requires tests and meeting of regulations per each state.
@@greenie2390 I'm a CPA in Canada. I definitely don't make $158,000 a year. But I make enough to have what I need, I love my job, my boss is amazing, I have the work/life balance I need, and I'm super happy. To me, that's successful :)
Not even two minutes in and my 12yo said, "that's so obviously fake." I replied, "yeah, but TikTok told them, so.." Hilarious and sad at the same time.
whenever someone complains about “the youths”, i’m like, “it’s because the smart ones don’t end up on the news!!!” your kid’s critical thinking skills are really good!
Haha love that. I've got my seven year old trained to spot some of these scammy things too. It cracks me up when she hears herbalife, Monat or Thrive. "Thats a scam!" She'll say with such volition .😂
My 9 and 11 year olds like to laugh at scams with me also. I get a lot of emails saying "this $2000 was charged to your PayPal for an iPhone. Click here if you didn't make this purchase" I'm like "Oh, I should FOR SURE click this link" and then we laugh and laugh 😆😆😆
I have a family member currently living in his car (even though he has a full time job, makes about $5-6,000 a month take home) due to an online gambling addiction. I tried to help him, let him live with me rent free for a year, offered to take him to gambling addiction counseling, but he refused help and I ended up having to move due to my husband's job so now he's on his own. I feel so bad but I don't know what else I could have done. He'd 100% fall for a scheme like this too. 😢
I worked at the UPS Store while I was in between jobs and had a few people who would do this. They would drop them off for our mailman and brag about how rich they were going to get. Breaks my heart for them. Just people desperately trying to keep up with rising costs. I will say it is worth it to sit down every now and then and write letters to EVERY COMPANY that sells things you buy and compliment them for their fabulous products. They will almost always send you a packet with samples and coupons which does save you money! At least they did back in 2010-2015ish. I used to do this and I don’t know why I ever stopped. I would write to every company that sold a product in my kitchen, bathrooms, etc. maybe once every few months. It’s easy to find their HQ addresses online.
Desperate, uneducated, and unwilling to accept the fact that they are being targeted by a scam. Scams only work on ppl that don't do their homework and fall for the "too good to be true" ploy....b/c it "would never happen to them." Sad, really.
It reminds me of those surveys you get “paid” to complete, that end up taking hours for maybe $0.25 payout. Seriously, a minimum wage part time job has much more payout. I don’t understand…
I've been doing those for years and I'm pretty happy with them, yeah it doesn't pay much but I did that in classes I couldn't skip but weren't relevant to me, at a job I hated or when the bus was too noisy to read, and those coupled with offers related to mobile games have gotten me pretty nice belongings and experiences -just last week I paid for a semester of sculpting class thanks to those. A part-time job does pay more per hour but requires to be there everytime they need you, and you can't just randomly decide to grind at 2am in your underwear then not touch it for a week.
@@claida339 honestly same. I spoke from experience, I did the same in college. I pocketed like 10-20$ a week for ~2 hours of work/ surveys everyday and used it for subway fares. It worked but obviously the payout was terrible. I can’t imagine thinking it could equal a full or part time job or enough to support a family although it was enough for my transport while I was working towards a sustainable career
@@claida339I completely agree. I would never recruit people but I do it in waiting rooms, on my commute, when I can’t sleep and I’ve made 100s of dollars in about 9 months. Very chill.
@claida339 Exactly lmao. It's tedious but pays, and I like how it doesnt matter what timeframe you take the surveys. I do them when I'm waiting or bored. Plus, I get paid to be salty when I genuinely don't like the product/company. Definitely on a different level than this letter bs 😅
Shout out to those mobile games I played as a kid that you could do surveys through to get ""free"" gems or whatever, making me slave away for something stupid that could've took me a minute or less to just buy with money I also tried to make bank using those stupid surveys as a like 11 year old but obviously i did not get rich lmao
I love how the girlies always call it a side hustle but in the same breath they will be like “I’m building a business” so which is it, a side hustle or a full time business.
That makes SO much sense lol my first thought was, "this definitely sounds like a scam" and my second thought was "...wait...do people on TikTok know *how* to write letters? sounds weird."
I saw one of these letter writing videos on TikTok yesterday. She said to buy her course for $240 to take her course & you could earn $6000 each month. TikTok has become scam central! Thanks for making this video!
@@AxelaxiB I will point out that the wording and format of the letter has to be *extremely* specific to be successful, and that's what companies like SéndIt are trying to exploit. 💸 Thing is; The format and text required are _always_ specified in the AROE part of the Terms for each sweepstakes promotion (See the PDF linked from the video description for a textbook example) so you can simply go straight to that and copy the text word-for-word onto your index card *without* having to pay some unconnected scam artist $250,- for the „privilege“... 😉
I’m just dying at the fact that woman was trying so hard to convince us that this wasn’t an MLM that she unintentionally exposed it for being a pyramid scheme. Like girl, being an MLM is actually the better option in this case!
The casino is guaranteed their $5 per letter, the "academy" is guaranteed their cut as you pay fees to be in it. The only one not guaranteed anything is the mug at home writing letters.
The casino doesn't get the $5. The casinos are giving away $5 in tokens as part of a promotion. The normal way to participate probably involves installing an app, or signing up for an account, so they also have to implement a "no purchase necessary" version. Such promotions usually have a "one per customer" limit, though. So something sleazy must be happening somewhere.
@@bEverCurious What do you think a "write off" is? It just means that business expenses aren't taxed like profits. The government doesn't actually pay or refund your expenses. Imagine a company gave away a $100,000 boat for a promotion. They get to "write off" that boat, but you don't seriously think they get the $100,000 back do you? Because that is very much not how taxes work.
@@AndyLundell a write off - you don't pay as much on tax - the difference between what you should pay and the amount after write off, goes where? Stays in your bank account. If you don't have to pay it but get to keep it, it's effectively the same thing.
Wow, this scam feels like it's straight out of the 80s! Letter writing, sweep stakes, gambling. Diabolical! Who ever started this scheme is an evil genius. I'm actually impressed 😂
Oh goodness, I’ve never heard of this before! But as I was listening further and further in I kept thinking, “Holy cow! This is an ACTUAL pyramid scheme!” Like, not even in disguise!😮😂
That's what I thought. If the process to enter via AMOE is _that_ specific, then it's in casinos best interest to detail that _exact_ process - To the (ahem!) letter - On their websites. 📝 So who needs some $250,- training course to follow a process the _casinos_ - Of all organisations - Will give to you for _free?_ 😋
It's so embarrassing that people are referring to this as a "side hustle" and an "income stream." Imagine explaining the reality of this when someone asks you about your lil' side hustle. Humiliating.
I think this sort of thing comes with the loss of shame... They're in too deep and can't consciously admit it's a waste and a scam, because then they'd have to admit they were tricked too, and people have a hard time admitting when they've been tricked.... 🫤
Already the fact that this "work" has no purpose besides making money, leads to nothing positive at all, does not accomplish anything - I would be so dissatisfied with myself.
@@William47345 of course I can not say for sure that I would not be satisfied with a life like this if I grew up like that. But the person I am today with all the experiences I made would never go on a yacht, alone because of the huge environmental footprint ;)
Don’t you just love the way he rushes through the ‘gambling’ element of this. Not only is this absolutely un-ethical and immoral, it is dangerous. Gambling can easily become addictive and the odds are never in your favour. How is this even legal???
This is sad because there are organizations where you write friendly letters that get sent to senior living facilities and hospitals for children :( they don’t pay you, but you can use them as volunteering hours. When I was an RA I did this as a floor activity bc we had to do a volunteering themed one. I hope people don’t think that’s a pyramid scheme too!!! Some legit organizations: Letters of Hope, Love For Our Elders, Cards for Hospitalized Kids (CFHK), Cardz for Kidz! (Also for stamps- you write all of the cards without envelopes, put them in a tan mailer, and pay for that single stamp or envelope cost)
Now THIS is really sweet. Better to volunteer and actually make someone's day a little brighter than spend pens, stamps, paper and envelopes as well as time on a stupid scam Edit: typo
This isn't a scam! It's legit! I quit my job and start writing letters. Now I moved from my 5 bedroom home to a cardbox behind a local fast food resturant.
I'm still fuzzy on what the $25 monthly fee is for. I have not paid any of the teachers, professors or educational organizations that taught me how to do my job after my education was complete, especially not monthly. It makes no sense at all.
As a gambling addict I think this is shocking!! It’s so easy to fall into it. You don’t know it won’t happen to you. It’s horrible that is telling people that they are having to GAMBLE to make money. It’s honestly sickening and quite frankly dangerous. Thank you for bringing awareness about this Hannah!!
In fact, not necessarily. As a freelance, I definitely decide how much hours I work and the rate. So I can definitely say that you can kind of decide how much money you make ;-)
Thank you, Hannah! You do ALL this extensive research to make us aware of these SCAMS and MLMs out there exploiting people. I greatly appreciate your work. Please keep doing this great job. And, thank for always watching out for the people that don't understand "that if it sounds too good to be true, then it isn't good." 🙏 Blessings to your husband while deployed.
Hi Hannah, just to let you know that we will always love you and support you. Please take care of your self, it's totally okay to take a pause if you need to. Eat well, spend some time with your baby and your family, take a nice shower and have a good rest ❤ Wish you all the best and hope everything will sort out for you!
The scary part about these scams is even though I know it's a scam my subconscious is still like "hold on let's hear them out this sounds good" so god help people who don't know no better
The human brain is horrible at detecting lies and manipulation and that’s why it’s good to just have red flags in your mind that alert you to scams. For me, it’s “why would this person be sharing this if it’s so lucrative for them, clearly they make money off recruitment”
Yep. I'm skeptical of everything but somehow will sometimes look into things like this! I immediately know they are scams but still "have to check" 🤷🏼♀️
I just wanna know, who is gonna keep the world moving (jobs like sanitation, nurses, teachers, etc) if we hypothetically all do these quick easy ‘money making’ tricks from home lol
I work in employment and sadly these online scams prey on women at home with kids and people with disabilities. There isn't much job search support or help for these groups. Jobs unfortunately forget people have needs and so there isn't many "real" jobs for these groups especially locally. People with real jobs don't have time to watch tik toks and try this nonsense.
When there are such jobs, they get saturated easily and then there's no room for you to do then anymore. You could be a decoratice hermit in someone's garden, theoretically. But there are probably only 4 people in the world willing to pay for you to do that, so after 4 people take this easy moneymaking job, that's it.
The people who like going in to work. For every person who would work better at home, self regulating their job or on their own schedule there’s someone who prefers going in to work and doing stuff in person with someone else making the difficult decisions. This exact argument was used for years to tell chronically ill people that they couldn’t work from home, but when push came to shove on the lockdowns, suddenly it was completely viable to have most people at home doing their jobs and efficiency went up for office workers. At the same time, there was a huge group of people that *hated* being at home all the time and couldn’t wait to get back to the in person stuff. Those people would be your in person workers. They exist, they’re just not vocal about disliking their job so society likes to forget about them.
I'm one of those people who would rather come in and clean the place I work at. I tried doing sales and calling people to book but I have severe anxiety. Me and my boss decided I would do best in the position I'm currently in. I'm very creative so I also help set up events but I do not like working from home because I can't handle phone calls
This is so dangerous - I know people who gamble their mortgage payment money on these scams every month. Then for the rest of the month they are left begging friends and relatives to "borrow" $500 or so to make the payments, believing they'll be able to double it and pay it back. They aren't invited to family gatherings now because of this and will probably lose their house soon.
Omg RIGHT?? And how about wasting your time writing the same stupid words that mean nothing…THEN hope you didn’t spell something wrong and get the letter and it’s $0.78 stamp tossed in the trash,..but if it DOES make it through…you still need to spend a ridiculous amount of time gambling online?? I don’t even LIKE gambling?! That seem like a major thing these hun bots are leaving out? What a mess. When people start talking like this I literally want to run. They’re not even real people they’re scammers, con artists, frauds and liars…AND they all are likely desperate for money. Yuck I can’t imagine trying to live like that. I just don’t. I feel sorry for people getting scammed by these frauds because of the “affiliate program”. Never heard of this scam but I guess I’m not surprised some schister came up with it.
I used to work at weddings and did photo booths. I got a thank you Note from one of the weddings and let me tell you that was my favorite one. I still remember that letter to this day because it was the only one I ever got in 4-5 years of doing those photo booths. Those handwritten notes regardless of what time you have them, someone is going to remember that letter for a long time
The way I almost smashed my keyboard when it dawned on me that these are people who literally farm distressed, indebted low-income citizens that are in dire need of money and trying to get out of poverty, to manipulate them into an online gambling addiction. This isn't just dystopian, this is an idea straight from hell, dude. It's like a vegetable company farming starving people to test their pesticide ridden harvest on, because hey, free food.
FYI it’s “bait and switch” not “switch and bait,” if there weren’t bait to draw you in and distract you they couldn’t do the switch. Switch and then bait would mean they’d lose every time lol
When I was little my friend's mom would take us to the grocery store to write down the addresses to candy companies and mail them feedback and compliments. They would send you back candy. 😂 Closest I've ever been to making money for writing letters. I was paid in chocolate.
I remember this type of fraud from the 1990s. I'm from Poland. I see that old deceptive "tricks" that once circulated around the world are coming back.
I was already sceptical about the numbers they threw around for how much you can earn, because they didn’t account for the cost of buying all the supplies. Boy, it was much worse than that.
What does ETA stand for? I know one meaning of ETA is “estimated time of arrival,” but what’s the other meaning? I feel so dumb for asking this buts it’s been bugging me for a while and I even googled it and couldn’t figure out any meaning other than Estimated Time of Arrival lol
On top of there being absolutely no guarantee of being paid, it sounds like you're ALSO sending out your personal information, name, address, etc, to a bunch of online casinos. Do you have to give financial information as well in order to cash out? Keep track of all these sketchy sites that now have your card number? Yikes.
Paying actual money so a "company" can "teach you" how to essentially gamble is.....absolutely INSANE work. If someone wrote this in a book, no one would believe it.
I really hope we eventually reach a point where the general population is media literate enough to immediately dismiss something that opens with "i can't believe more people aren't talking about this EASY money maker!"
This is a decent aspiration but a better one is to make the world safe for even the most vulnerable people. Can we blame scammers & tech companies who allow them on the platform instead of gullible desperate people? I report so many scams & Google gives zero Fs. I see the same "not yet vetted" advertiser with the same name using stolen footage of celebs with AI voices telling "All Canadians should quit their jobs now, bc this opportunity is..." MULTIPLE times over at least 2 years now. I've seen them use stolen footage of Justin Trudeau, our national newscasters, & even horrible gremlins like Jordan Peterson, & for reasons I cannot understand, Huda from the Today show + Oprah's friend Gayle. I don't know how they decide whose footage to steal. But whatever. The same scammers keep scamming with the same scam ads using different stolen footage & these platforms do nothing. I think we can blame a lot of intentionally malevolent parties before we do our victim blaming?
I work 40hrs per week on a computer normally, I started a business which put me at 60 hours of coding per week. My wrists gave out on week 7. I've permanently screwed up my wrists. If for no other reason, don't do this.
Yikes!! My partner also codes, his issues lie in really stiff painful shoulders. I have a recurring carpal tunnel issue from my own writing. It's no joke.
I was thinking the same!! If you're really spending hours & hours handwriting letters, you're going to get awful hand/finger cramps, spasms, stiffness and a whole lotta pain!!!
I work in the gaming industry and this is super problematic. This company needs to be reported to the gaming commission in each state. The FTC has fined a similar company for online training programs like this. Report report report!!
$6000/month? $5 a letter x 60 letters a day x 30 days = $9,000 a month I wonder who's pocketing that extra $3000? They can't even calculate their own scam correctly
They are not doing 30 days/months but only 20 to account for weekends to make it sound more like a job. And let's not focus on having to write to (different?) 1200 casinos per month...
Don't these people know that there is NO such thing as free money? This is a total scam! I saw this and I was curious because it felt MLM-ish. So weird! Thank you for this video, Hannah!
Wow, this one is an old scam! My grandma had fallen victim to this many years ago. They made her put money upfront and try to recruit others to sign up. Can't believe this is still around today
I am SO HAPPY that every time a new scam comes out and I share with my kid they go, "Yuh-DUHH, mom. I know. It's so obvious." Channels like yours are helping me to raise smart kids.
I’m a senior econ major, and I HAVE to show this to both my antitrust and employment law professors. I have a feeling this would not pass their “sniff tests” as it were.
@@tifKh I mean, sure. But it will give me the opportunity to learn about something new, and I would love to hear more about the legality behind it all, so I’d consider that a win
it sounds like the sendit university is charging people to teach them how to enter an AMOE into a sweepstakes, which paying a bunch of extra money defeats the purpose of AMOE
It's wild to me!! Do these women truly believe their pitch? Do they really think they are helping? Or are they just stone-cold hearted, cynical scammers who will with no hesitation fleece vulnerable people?
As much as I love and appreciate your MLM whole horror story series and binged them all… I vote you focus more on content like this! Ie: random scam deep dives, influencer insanity ect. Not only is it super interesting like unwrapping a mystery and calling out scammers, but I feel it achieves your goal of reminding us that our lives are just fine. We are not missing out on making $8000 a month with a side hustle that only requires two hours worth of work. We are not boring because we don’t go on trips to the south of France and spend our days eating street food. We are not disorganized because we don’t spend money and create waste by stocking or junk drawers and using specialty organizers!
I would rather fight traffic and commute into my 9-5 job every day than to earn a single penny from home manipulating people into MLMs and scams like this. How does anyone get any satisfaction from that?? And always looking for a new side hustle or the next way to make money off of shady "opportunities"? No thank you! Thanks, Hannah for exposing this scam and saving people from a costly mistake.
I've finished the video and still don't fully understand it. You know it's purposefully misleading when even Hannah can't fully explain it. Seriously, what is the $25 monthly fee for if the affiliate program is only supposed to be a $20 lifetime payment? You pay $200something for a course and then keep paying monthly for having taken that course? It just makes no sense.
@kismetcaffet9862 I am guessing the $25 each month will be for the company to keep sending you more names of casinos and their specific "lingo" to write for their particular sweepstakes entry? Just guessing, though.
I feel like we need someone to volunteer to do this for like a week and report on how much they actually made. How many gambling credits they actually got and how much they won gambling.
There was an interview Coffeezilla did with a former copy writer for one of those shopping newsletters that peddle "secret kung fu techniques" and the likes. He had some interesting insights into the mindset of the people involved with schemes like this. TLDR - they think the fact that they are making money as a sign that what they are doing is the right thing to do. They don't feel bad about scamming people because if the people were stupid enough to be scammed, they were going to lose the money anyway, so it might as well be them!
the part where he was like "now you may not support gambling for moral reasons but KEEP LISTENING! Also if you know someone who does like gambling you should tell them!" What a slimeball.
20:36 “they get to write off $5 for each one whether it’s correct or not.” Meanwhile that poor girl lost 637 worth of letters deemed ineligible because she wrote “the” instead of “this”
I suspect the presenter is wrong here, and the original source actually meant that the company can write off $5 regardless of whether they actually pay out any money to you or you end up gambling it all away. Otherwise that would be one hell of a tax dodge that would have been exploited to insane degrees already. She's definitely wrong about them 'wanting' you to write letters. Gambling companies would much, much rather you take the preferred path of _paying_ to gamble (typically by 'buying time' at an 'internet cafe', or buying overpriced phone cards, or similar). The free alternative option is there to stay legal, which is why they're so ridiculously pedantic about you getting it absolutely right.
it's so weird to me that people feel comfortable saying all you have to do is "write letters" when you LITERALLY have to play games to get anything. It makes zero sense 🤣 How ironic that they themselves are playing games and manipulating the audience. Many layers of games at play here
If this ain’t the scammiest scam that ever did scam. Probably easy to get through to vulnerable populations- namely elderly ,who might enjoy letter writing. Sounds so innocent but sooo predatory:(
Yes! These types of things & entering sweepstakes & entering contests to win a car that's on display, etc.. This is one of the avenues how your info gets spread around out there and sold, & how collection agencies & telemarketers find you.
I have always had an ick towards these type of companies, but you hiy the nail on the head every video. As a stay-at-home mom, I struggle with my role in not bringing in an income, but your videos help me feel validated that I'm doing the right thing for not buying into MLMs and it's okay to not buy into the hussle culture. It's okay to live life without that. Thanks for all your videos. ❤
Another huge risk of things like this is online casinos are likely to not be super ethical or well run companies so you're putting yourself at huge risk of identity theft due to your personal info being breached or sold
It has been a while since I been floored about a scam/mlm. I was so caught off guard that this is gambling. I paused after she described a pyramid scheme. That’s a first.
It's like the 70s and 80s all.over again. These ladies just need rollers in their hair, a cigarette and 5 cups of coffee (add crying baby in a diaper 😆) 😅😅
This sounds like soooo much work. Like, who listens to this and still thinks, "ah, simple and quick"? That's why they leave out the part about having to enroll in a course, learn HOW to play the games (& *hopefully* win), convert coins, etc. All apart from the letter writing. Even if this was free & legit, I'd be out after I heard part B.
