TLDR: Friend tried recruiting me into Amway/LTD, want some advice on how I can possibly get her to see it’s a scam and leave without scaring her off.

For context, a friend of mine messaged me out of the blue a couple weeks ago asking how I’ve been and asking to call. I called her and we caught up a little bit, then the conversation steered to how she’s had this business opportunity for financial freedom (it’s been a topic of discussion between us in the past, getting financially free and not having to worry about money). She says she’s made great connections with “top 1% people” and made great friendships and that she gets to travel to conferences and meetings with them, and that she’s cut off people that don’t have a similar mindset anymore. She seemed really happy and excited about it so when she brought up me joining the team I was open to it. Note that I was already a bit skeptical about it since a coworker from the past tried recruiting me into Primerica a few years ago, which I refused after doing a bit of research on it.

I agreed to at least meet with her and her “mentor” to “connect” at a local coffee shop. We met, he talked to me a bit about mindset and future goals and then asked if I could attend an event one night and i said sure why not, it didn’t cost me any money so I agreed. The meeting went how these types of MLM events usually go, not gonna go into it much it was pretty much your typical “quit your 9-5 job/trading time for money” talk for most of it promoting amway/LTD as a business opportunity to reach financial freedom without having to work for anyone. They tried making it seem like this was some rare opportunity and that we were all lucky to be in this event. That not everyone would get the privilege to make the team and that they were very selective. I imagine this is just a tactic to get as much new recruits as possible so I just sat and listened to the whole thing trying to understand what was really going on. After the event her and her mentor then scheduled another follow up meeting. Thing is after I left I did research on this amway/LTD stuff and it just confirmed what I was already skeptical of, being a MLM/borderline legal pyramid scheme where I’d end up just wasting tons of time and money for a dream they’re selling me, just to make the higher ups more money. I had another meeting today but I cancelled last minute with some bullshit excuse. After reading others experiences with this I obviously don’t want to be a part of this, but the issue is she already is, she’s been in this for the last couple months and it really seems like they’ve completely manipulated her into thinking this is the ticket to her dream life.

She’s a few years younger than me, just turned 20 when she told me she was first approached 2 months ago. I know she can be really naive and is inexperienced with stuff like this so it’s very clear to me it was very easy to manipulate her into all this and sell her this dream that amway can give her. The thing is I really don’t want to just ghost her and leave her in this mess, I genuinely want to get her out of this because I do care for her. What’s the best way to go about this? I’ve read that amway uplines really drill into your head that people outside the MLM are not to be trusted and have a “consumer” or employee mindset and to not listen to anyone but people in the team, so I feel like she’ll just brush me off or cut me off purely based on that. The big thing is I can tell she genuinely sees these people as her friends now, and maybe they are, obviously I can’t control her or make her do anything, but what if she’s just being used to make her uplines more money and I’m just here witnessing her get scammed? Anyone else been in this situation and has some advice as to what I should do next? Is it too late already?