I got suckered into one of these many many years ago. I was young and dumb but don't regret it because I learned a valuable lesson! Anyway, I was following Dave Ramsey at the time and desperately trying to get my debts paid off, I was making decent money but wanted to make as much as I could to ramp things up faster. I was told it was a very different type of company. I don't remember the name of it anymore (maybe someone else on here will recognize it). Anyway, it's a company where you sign people up for services that they are already using, but when they sign up through you then you get a small percentage each time they pay their monthly bill. Services like cell phones, cable tv, internet, even some electricity. It was 100% an MLM as you also had to sign people up to start working under you and also get people to sign up, and so on. My friend that got me involved told me it was how he was able to take a year off of work and spend time with his daughter instead. He gave a good talk so I got involved.
Anyway, my ONE requirement when I signed up was that I would NOT for ANY reason bug family/friends. I would offer it to them if they wanted but I would not pressure anyone. I told them they had to show me different ways to gain customers or I would not be involved. They promised it would be easy to find customers because most people have cell phones, electricity, cable, satellite tv, etc...
Within days of signing up my "mentor" tried to force me into giving him the phone numbers of everyone in my family/friends list so he could call them all and pester them. When I refused he got upset and tried to tell me it was required. He drove me nuts for weeks, I started completely ignoring his messages and when I would listen to his voicemails they always sounded like he was talking to me like a little kid and I needed to do what the "grownup" told me to do. (Not really of course, but that's how it felt).
I called and cancelled my "membership" and never spoke to him again.
Awhile later the friend of mine who talked me into signing up admitted that it was all a scam and he never really made any money off of it.