Sounds like a scam, but help me verify: Someone I know now calls herself a travel agent via a company called World Ventures, which offers each "agent" a simple Web site with an airfare search tool on it. Sounds scammy to me, and when I Google, I get bits and pieces that sound bad, but the company doesn't seem to be one that Quackwatch or MLM Survivor or those sites has a lot to report on. (Maybe because it only dates to 2005?) Can anyone offer up more info? Articles in solid publications about World Ventures preferred, but any info is helpful. (Posting anonymously so involved friend doesn't know who's asking.) Thanks.
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 2 answers

A friend of a friend has started to shell out money to Dani Johnson. She's only a few hundred dollars in so far and I'm trying my best to find information to dissuade her from getting in any deeper. Google, however, is letting me down - every link I find is basically a scam site of some kind gushing about her. Taken as a whole the result of this search being garbage is damning enough on its own but I'm looking for something more definitive I can bring to her. 500 results in I see a Yahoo Answers question asking the same thing but there isn't a substantial answer there. Hopefully Metafilter knows better. :) Is it a scam? Is it a pyramid scheme? Is there any proof?
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 8 answers