Post by Adrian Tan

Fractional CMO for HR Tech | Author, No More Bosses (Penguin) | Podcaster & Content Creator

Good news for everyone retrenched this year: the Nanning money game is back. For the uninitiated: you pay a membership fee, then earn by recruiting downlines who pay theirs. What's the product? There isn't one. You are the product. So is your cousin Jeremy, once you sign him up. I know because in 2018 I attended the free trip. Duck rice recruitment lunch at PLQ, then off to Nanning, where the itinerary was mostly meals with Singaporeans already inside the program. Including a Singaporean of the Year and a former PAP MP (photo attached, faces respectfully mosaic-ed). And I'll admit it: for one night in that hotel bed, the guy who does marketing for a living fully believed. That's how good the social proof was. What broke the spell was one accidental keyboard setting. That story, plus how the "exit policy" actually works when you want your money back, is in the full post. With the market down, the pitch writes itself now: recover your losses, join the network, look who else is inside. So.... if everyone who joins can see it's a money game, and joins anyway, who exactly is scamming whom?

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