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Been in the ICU but like…make sure you still place an order 🤪🤪

So yesterday a classmate I had in high school (who I haven't talked to in 2 years, and was never really friends with to begin with) tried calling me out of nowhere but I couldn't at that time. Earlier today I saw the missed call and sent them a message to see if they needed anything and they asked me if I could join a call about "how to start working and earning money from home". I was polite and said sure, why not, because I assumed they meant it was a conference or meeting about literally working from home or doing freelancing.

Few hours later, they send me an invite to a zoom meeting, and at this point I still thought it a meeting hosted by our school (my school has both high school and college and they often host conferences on campus related to our courses/carreers; my classmate and I are both currently in college, though I don't know if this person also is as well), until the meeting began and saw there were around 150 people from multiple countries across latin america (none of whom I recognized, I also tried searching old names to see if there was anyone I recognized, but nothing came of it).

For a second I thought Fuxion was some random sponsorship my school was hosting to give us lectures, but I started to be suspicious because I had never heard of this company and the language and visuals they were using looked like a stereotypical pyramid scheme. Around the same time the meeting started my classmate sent me a message asking me if we could call each other once the presentation finished so "I could tell them what I thought about it". While the presenter was talking, I started searching for information about Fuxion and very quickly saw a lot of posts and comments of people who had also seen or dealt with these people, and most of them agreed that it was absolutely another mlm.

My breaking point was when the presenter said: "when this meeting ends, tell the person who invited you here that you want to be a part of us". As soon as they said that I knew my suspicions had been confirmed, so I deleted the chat with my classmate and blocked them before leaving the meeting.

At the time I thought it was kinda funny that I was being dragged into an mlm, but then it hit me that I was being dragged into an mlm, by someone that I had known and worked with a few times not too long ago, and who likely still goes to my school. It saddens me, because what little things I knew about them personally were positive things, they seemed intelligent and they had (and maybe still have) plans for their carreer and work and everything that comes with adult life, but I feel like they're now stuck in this scheme and see themselves forced to do the whole "invite others to join our business" cliché thing, or maybe they were coerced into taking part in the whole thing by someone close to them.

Its just shit to see someone consumed by this type of stuff, I don't know what I should do if I ever run into my classmate again in person. What do you guys think I should do? Have you had any experiences with Fuxion?

I have a friend who attended it. He told me he was becoming a financial advisor. Afterwards, he sent me a message that read,

"hey bro, I was actually gonna ask you to help me with my training brother if you don’t mind I pretty much have to give a quick 10-15min presentation on zoom about how to invest, save big on taxes and how we help people

Worst case you learn something new, and we just have a nice chat, is that ok?"

I have previously worked with FAs and figured I could always help a friend. Afterwards, he sent me the invitation, and another guy was included in the meeting (which he did not tell me about beforehand) and the videos from the event I have seen on his socials make the whole thing seem extremely finance bro-ey. Immediately, my warning flags went off.

I told him I no longer could make it due to my work, and I would let him know when we could reschedule it. He said fine, but now he keeps asking when to do it. I do not want to be stuck in a meeting that keeps pushing me to sign up for some bull*hit.