<prompt> Human: I have an old friendwe used to be in a casual motorcycling group of friends that I dont talk to that often. He called me this morning and says hes started a Merchanting company and wants me to be a Merchant Partner. Reasoning is that they have a limited growth ability, so they spread among partners I guess??. He said they would open an LLC under my name that would fall under a larger umbrella corporation, which would entitle me to 1 of all transactions they do, and all Id have to do is sign a couple papers a month as they go through. Im not in business management, so a lot of this is over my head, but just from a common sense perspective, sounds pretty shady. Anyone have any input on this?EDIT: Thank you all for all the replies, definitely gonna take a pass. Guess Ill keep surviving the old fashioned way: work.  <response>: This is either multi-level marketing or something worse.Dont do it. 