While in college, I was invited to one of these "great opportunities" by two of my cousins. Being broke at the time, I attended. I was suspicious from the start. First of all, everyone was overly friendly and enthusiastic towards me, telling me how this is such a great opportunity to make thousands of dollars while at the same time they were very evasive with what the process entailed.
I also noticed a bunch of "ringers" --young, very good-looking people dressed in expensive suits and jewelry, Rolex watches, etc. who would talk about how they went from flipping burgers (or some other low-paying undesirable job) to driving a Ferrari and owning a condo in Aspen.
Anyhow, one of the ringers started describing the company in very vague terms yet I was able to instantly recognize it as a pyramid scheme. I told my cousins that this was bogus and to back out as quickly as they could. They thought I was a fool.
The company was named "Equinox" and they took my two cousins to the cleaners for around $15,000 before they wised up.
Yeah, my cousin was taken in by this MLM scam, too. Lost a couple of grand on it.
Her experience was in Pittsburgh -- where was yours?