Have you ever wondered if some “legitimate” companies are just organized crime in disguise? These companies are supposed to provide services to people, but rob them of their hard-earned money.
The consequences of this crime syndicate show up in the lives of the people who get scammed on a daily basis. And although there is no official list, people on Internet forums swear that these companies are the problem of society today.
1. Online Review Sites
Some of these sites, like Yelp, collect money from businesses through “subscriptions” to help them advertise to increase engagement and allow customers to leave reviews.
When you stop paying for ads, sites go crazy. They reduce positive reviews and promote negative ones instead. Sometimes from clients you’ve never served.
2. Manage Pharmacy Benefits
These are third party prescription drug administrators. They handle the processing and payment of prescription drugs. But one person believes they do more harm than good. They call this “the root cause of the failure to set fair and transparent drug prices.”
These companies are expected to help reduce the cost of medicines for patients. Often they don’t, but they still get bonuses anyway.
3. Printer ink
Printers now require you to have other colors for monochrome printing. Not only that, the ink and toner must be the same brand as the printer.
New printer models use subscriptions; if they run out, the printers will stop working. Therefore, it is sometimes cheaper to buy a new printer than to buy ink. Sounds funny, doesn’t it?
4. US Health Insurance
These services are expected to cover some or all of the beneficiary’s medical expenses. In turn, the agreed amount is paid monthly by the recipient. Sounds simple enough. But it’s not. Some companies usually cover a meager amount of medical expenses or nothing.
One person writes: “They are interested in charging you more and providing fewer services in order to make more profit. They are scammers and redundant intermediaries in every way.”
5. Church of Scientology
It is “one of the most successful new American religions to emerge in the past century.” L. Ron Hubbard founded it in the 1950s. People are free to practice their preferred faith. However, this becomes problematic when they use religion to extort the unsuspecting.
To prove their point, people quoted the founder of Scientology as saying, “You don’t get rich by writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
6. Politicians who trade stocks
This is about insider trading. Someone shares his thought: “The reason is that they pass laws that directly affect the price of shares. So they essentially have insider knowledge of what exactly will rise and fall in the market.
You can also find Nancy Pelosi’s husband, who made millions in Nvidia stock right before we sanctioned Russia for not supplying computer chips. Coincidence? I think no.”
Politicians are not prohibited from trading. However, the chances that these transactions will be influenced by the information they have is relatively high.
7. Multilevel Marketing
These organizations promise wealth, but, as always, at a price. Often it is to quit your job and sell your products.
They rarely tell you that you make money from the number of people you bring in, not the number of products you sell. Again, if an offer sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
8. Payday loans
These are fast, short-term loans with huge interest rates. The problem is that no one who hasn’t hit the pickle is going to pick it.
They pounce on desperate people who need instant credit to sort things out, and when a payment isn’t paid on time, interest begins to accrue. In addition, a “short-term loan”, which means a term of less than a year, accrues annual interest on a monthly basis.
9. Gambling business
Gambling addiction is serious. It doesn’t help that it’s now so accessible online and offline. These games are designed to make you lose more than you win. When you lose, they make more money.
The thrill is so addictive that it’s easier for them to sell their schemes and the hope that you can be the next Bill Gates.
10. Utilities
These companies must provide public services for a fee. But people are surprised when they get so ridiculously tall.
The bills are steadily rising, making it hard for people to keep up, especially in recent times of inflation. Unfortunately, no one can do anything about it, because the companies are monopolists.
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