<prompt> Human: I apologize if this is not the right subreddit for this question, but I am freaking out a little right now and my boyfriend wont listen to what Im saying.Anyway, he messaged me about an hour ago, telling me he was going to have an energy business and make a ton of money. I pressed him for more information, and he told me he became a consultant for Ambit Energy. Red flags immediately went up in my head and I quickly googled the company. Some people were calling it a pyramid scheme, most claimed it operated within legal bounds but consultants generally do not make any profit unless they are in the upper ranks. The reason he signed up is because his aunt works for them and apparently makes 10k a month EDIT: this was a miscommunication- she does not make that much and just began with Ambit. I think that is what she SAID he could make. He spoke to some very enthusiastic recruiters as well.Some background on my boyfriend: He is a 18 year old freshman in college. He lives with his parents, so he has no experience paying energy bills. He neither has any experience in a sales. Furthermore, he does not have any sort of stable job, so his parents put up the 400 or something near that entrance fee. He has no financial assets except for cash not even a savings account. The only good thing he has mentioned is that his mother might be able to sign some co-workers up.I have been trying to convince him to back out if he can, but he will not listen to me. Can you please offer some advice? He will pay more attention to my protests if other people agree. Simply put, it seems too good to be true. I also cannot imagine that a ton people would be wiling to switch their energy source because of some 18-year-old college kid.On the other hand, if Ambit is some sort of hidden gold mine of profit, I would love to be reassured. Please please PLEASE help me outUPDATE: Thank you, everyone, for your invaluable input. I did finally manange to convinve him to run in the other direction, and he in turn explained to his parents that he believed Ambit was a scam. As upward_bound mentioned, this company tends to exploit older, mimority, and low-imcomeeducated people. My boyfriends family are all non-native English speakers and immigrants he being the first American-born, including have at least two other consultants, one of whom is rumored to be successful in the company. Since his parents knew someone in the family on the inside, they simply assumed it was legit. In my boyfriends mind, he had little to fear. Now that this ordeal is over, he promised to do research and run things by me before signing up for any to-good-to-be-true scams. Again, thank you SO much to everyone for your help!  <response>: YouTube: penn and teller bullshit - easy money 