wasting scammers' time

For a bit of context, I know this girl who owns a bistro. I had some photography gigs there. She invited me to this project that had its presentation in the same location. I was curios so I went. I was thinking that the worst thing that can happen is to waste some of my free time.

I go there and the presentation started. There were 2 speakers, a woman and a man. The woman had a bigger part of the presentation. You might be asking now, what was the project all about? Well, it was about travelling and money. So what you had to do was simple: just pay a fee of $120 dollars every month, like a subscription and through this you had some AI bots that would make a vacation from 0, you just had to input where you wanna go and the vibe and the dates I think. BUT thats not all, of course, DUHHH! This money that you were paying through the subscription was transforming into like loyalty points and you go sales for the vacation with them. 

So where does the making money come into play? Well if you pay the higher rank of the subscription you get access to the franchise and you can you your affiliate code to get more people into this! And duhh they get the amazing vacations at a bit of a lower price. So yeah in case this doesnt ring a bell, this is a MLM scam thingy. The immediate red flags, besides the fact that i never heard of the brand (cuz it was really exclusive and you only get in by being invited) was the fact that the presentation they had on the TV was 100% AI. They didnt miss any part of it. And I just loved how they portrayed this business thing as a "passive income" and "a road to financial freedom" just as any bitcoin guru that is selling a course.

Of course, I was not the target audience as from the start that lady asked if anyone is saving money for vacations and I was the only one in the room raising my hand. The target audience are the people that get in debt to go in a vacation, so for them this little investment is actually a big thing. The lady came to the table I was at and started talking to me thinking that she might convert me or something. Of course I tried a lot to waste this persons time on me so she wouldnt have time to talk to other people. I asked some good questions (I would say) like "how is it passive income if you are here right now and you pretty much did a job? passive is suppose to mean you dont do anything, but you clearly are here to work?" and "why was AI used so much in the presentation? As a gen Z, if I see any restaurant or store using AI, my trust in them reduces significantly." Of course girly pop would take me through a lot of things but not actually give me an answer to my question. Also she was so prideful about the fact that she was a nutritionist and she pissed on me when I said that I was a photographer, but apparently you only need a course to become a nutritionist, but i knew from the start she was not the brightest.

The man only talked about the business part, the affiliate code and whatever; how you can pretty much just become a manager, teaching people under you how to do stuff and if you teach more people, you get more money. He mentioned he got $30,000 last year, but did not mention if this was before or after tax. In fact he didnt mention any kind of tax so maybe he is not declaring all this money to the state, idk.

That was pretty much the scheme; after I just got some food. At my table was a guy who was an art curator and I could tell he was not dumb lol. He was pretty old fashioned but in a good way! By the time my meal arrived, this guy had a friend there. He was pretty confused as was his friend who didnt get to see the magical presentation. But the old fashioned guy just told his friend to ask me questions since I was there from the start and I got the idea of the business. He could also tell I was not eating the bullshit as he was not either.

So that was my little random side quest.