The Best Advice on NOT Becoming a Bernard Madoff Home Business Victim by Daniel Herzner. The hardest thing for people to deal with when they're victimized by a scam is the feeling of being violated and used. Yes, any loss of money resulting from having been taken by a scam artist is a bitter pill to swallow, but that feeling of helplessness is the hardest thing of all to deal with. I've read the post by haiyan902 firsthand accounts of many of Madoff's victims and they uniformly say the same thing: knowing that they were getting blindly ripped off year after year is what really made the scandal so heart wrenching.

So what does all of this have to do with a home based business? Truthfully, a lot. Now I'm a big advocate of the Network Marketing industry because it is by far the most popular model folks use to build home business success. So, for the purposes of this discussion, we will keep our focus on how to build an MLM business while not being victimized by a scam. ... Read more »