[ehvatum]

> How can we help our friends and family avoid being victims if these scammers have such strong powers of persuasion?

Take your credulous friends to an AA meeting, now and then. It’s basically a workshop against every kind of deception.

[arpinum]

For some reason I thought AA would be a great MLM recruitment area. Do they discourage recruitment for jobs and religion?

[DiggyJohnson]

They are an de facto faith-based group, so they probably don’t want evangelizing on their doorstep.

If someone showed up trying to peddle their MLM scheme, I expect that they would be asked not to bring their work to the meeting or please don’t come back.

[eli]

Rubbernecking an AA meeting feels wrong

[wl]

AA meetings are often designated as "open" or "closed." The "open" ones are open to the public.

[pessimizer]

Magnificent Obsession, the late Jim Nayder's WBEZ show, is basically an extended AA/NA style share.

This may be an archive of some sort, but I can't see it because I'm not an Apple customer.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magnificent-obsession/...

edit: https://soundcloud.com/magnificent-obsession