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> One day in 2022, while scrolling through Instagram, he came upon another opportunity.

Scrolling through instagram, you get exposed to a lot of "opportunities".

Anyway, if someone is ever selling you an opportunity that claims to be "passive income" that requires very little work, you need to ask yourself why they'd be selling this to you, instead of simply doing more of it themselves.

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MLMs have been targeting young people long before Instagram, I remember somebody handing out flyers for Amway at a high school graduation. And the peddlers of these scams always sell it as "Start your own business", "Be your own boss" and so on. And when it's not a MLM it's some kind of dropshipping scheme. I agree social media has given those schemes a much wider audience to capture.

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