Achieve Community blame woes on economy & “the system”
Typically when a Ponzi scheme hits regulatory problems the admins usually shut it down and disappear.
Every once in a while though an admin comes along and believes they’ve truly re-invented the wheel.
Achieve Community owner Kristi Johnson is one of those admins.
With the stress of coming up with new excuses each week to keep her investors happy likely taking its toll, Johnson’s latest update is riddled with a barrage of Ponzi rhetoric.
Achieve Community solicited investments of $50 on the promise of an 800% ROI. New affiliate money flowed in and was used to pay off existing investors, with the scheme chugging along until Payoneer severed ties with the company.
Left without a payment processor, what has since followed is months of carrot dangling the restart of the scheme. As of yet nothing has eventuated, with the status and whereabouts of already invested funds remaining unknown.
In her latest attempt to appease frustrated Achieve investors, Johnson yesterday sent out a weekend update.
Hello Achieve Community!
Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.
This is my message for you this weekend –
I am not your enemy. The design of the Achieve program is not the problem.
Like all Ponzi schemes, once new affiliate investment dries up the scheme collapses. At that point those who invested early (Johnson and her friends) make off with the lion’s share of withdrawn funds, leaving anyone who invested after them holding the bag.
Despite the mathematical certainty of all Ponzi schemes collapsing, the business model is “not the problem” Johnson asserts. Rather, it’s “the system”.
The enemy, the problem, is the financial structure of our industry, and our global economy. This has been around for decades.
It says that only 3% of people can make money, 97% can not. Only a few can do well. And they can only do well by hurting everyone else. And it must be that way! Nothing else works!
What specific structure Johnson is referring to is unclear. What it sounds like to me though is that she’s simply taken the old “97% of people lose money in MLM” made up statistic and applied it to the entire financial industry and global economy.
Nonsense to anyone with half a functioning brain for sure, but one must remember the intended audience of Johnson’s update.
They’ve invested hundreds and in some cases thousands, with the acceptance that Johnson and her friends have already withdrawn invested funds bringing with it the acceptance of financial loss.
For some of these people, the fiction of Johnson’s make-believe world is just easier to swallow…
The Achieve Community came along and said – we don’t believe that! It does not have to be that way.
Getting agreement is difficult, we are fighting all those decades of thinking in terms of scarcity and inequality. We are fighting industrialized fear of success. We are fighting institutional mind sets that haven’t changed if lifetimes!
What people are saying against us is just their indoctrination in the system.
The difficulties we have with financial institutions is just their indoctrination in the system.
And we are changing minds, and creating something that will change that structure. And we have much more support today than we did when we started.
What any of the above has to do with soliciting $50 investments and promising a $400 ROI beats me. Ponzi smoke and mirrors at its best.
There is no need for us to fight that mind set, no need to even respond to it. All we need to do is keep showing them a different way to see things. Over and over and over. And we are doing that.
My wish for all of you is that you find peace in this change, that you find hope for yourselves, that you can relax into a new way of seeing the future and just enjoy the ride.
I believe in you.
To your success, Kristi
Absent from Johnson’s cringeworthy update is an explanation as to how Achieve Community can continue to promise an 800% ROI indefinitely.
Instead, despite having withdrawn most of the invested funds in Achieve, Johnson would have investors believe she “is not the enemy”.
Perhaps enemy isn’t the right word, but if I was an Achieve investor I know financial institutions, “the system” and the global economy have nothing to do with Ponzi schemes being illegal the world over – for good reason.
To say Johnson is a thief would be entirely more accurate. After all, that’s precisely what Ponzi admins and their early investor buddies do – they steal funds from later investors.
Meanwhile in another announcement that’s surfaced sometime in the last twenty-four hours, Johnson suggests she’s managed to dupe an unnamed processor into offering Achieve a temporarily solution:
I received the preliminary approval for our temporary payout processor last night. Very exciting. They are telling me three weeks to process us, I’m pushing for quicker!
This will be more expensive, and it gets you paid. They offer Visa or MasterCard and they have an unlimited option for those making more than $10,000.00!
They are International and the cards can be used anyplace there are ATM’s. I’m going to recommend that only members who purchased through September sign up initially.
This of course isn’t the first time a payment processor solution has been announced, with Johnson previously prematurely announcing the procurement of Global Cash Card’s services.
After conducting their due diligence into Achieve’s Ponzi business model, GCC later advised they would not be taking Achieve on as a client.
Three weeks gives Johnson some breathing room for now, with further announcements expected around the end of the month.
Stay tuned as the Achieve Community Ponzi continues to not pay out its investors…
This just may be that moment when people wake up to the reality of the scam they are apart of.
well, obviously kristi is suffering a bout of angst. and she’s frustrated and peeved, that the ‘world’ will not allow her little ponzi scheme, in which only around 3% participants will make any money, to Take Off.
the way this krazy kook has been shouting from the roof tops with a bullhorn, reminds me of ‘courage of fools’ and ‘naivety’ .
kristi, refund everyone’s money and save your behind!!
Robert Craddock pulled this line of thinking after Zeek collapsed and dragged hundreds of suckers down with him.
It of course never went anywhere but it did set his following up to invest in the various reload scams he plugged.
Johnson, although not intentionally, is certainly helping her top investors mould their followers into being receptive towards the various reload schemes they are currently pushing.
Blaming “the system” is hardly new. Back when TVI Express was kicked out of Georgia with a C&D from the state consumer affairs office, a lot of admins blamed members not working hard enough, US being anti-MLM, and so on and so forth.
All of which of course, are fiction. But whatever lies that lets her sleep at night…
We’re just seeing the latest version of this. Next, they’ll be blaming Illuminati and Bilderberg group for trying to crush everyman’s dreams of financial independence. 😛
The sad part is that they are not big enough for government to care
People are moving on to other ponzis such as UToken and various rev shares
Total Takeover is another personal development junk
Grocery Network one is another junk too led by Coach Van
Warning do not put any money in this scam.
YOU WILL NEVER EARN A PENNY.
The liabilities are way too high. Just look at the numbers if there are positions invested in August and September which STILL have NOT been paid can you imagine how many hundreds of thousands of positions would need to be invested in this scam just to get September thru early November to be paid out, It takes 8 new positions of $50 just to pay out one ponzi player.
Stick a fork in this.
If you recently bought into this scam just google search your states attorney General office and contact them along with do a charge back on your credit card. Your credit card co will be able to go after the payment provider that this scam is using.
Call your AG and help get these crooks Troy, Kristi, Rodney blackbum in jail, so others will NOT get scammed.
Here’s the Colorado AG here. Help us out folks!
Wouldn’t it be great if the CO AG got enough complaints to go to the next level?
stopfraudcolorado.gov/about-consumer-protection/complaint-forms/securities-fraud-report-form
Come’on PEOPLE,,,,,what the hell is wrong with you??? Why are you still sending this thief money???
Where is Troy hiding? Knowing these 2 personally and knowing their mentality, they will still be standing on their soapbox preaching “It’s someone else’s fault” a year from now!!! (and there will still be idiots listening to them)…..
It pisses me off that I wasted 2 minutes typing this message, I cannot imagine the frustration the members have.
Contact the Colorado Attorney General @ stopfraudcolorado.gov/about-consumer-protection/complaint-forms/securities-fraud-report-form and get this crazy bit*h stopped today!!!
Another ponzi schemes get a payment processor but the achieve won’t, must be the johnson brain the problem or the bottomless troy. Well done
where is the proof she withdrew the funds… just curious
Next she will blame it on the oakland raiders
@James
When Payoneer shut them down Johnson certainly didn’t leave the money with them. Of course she withdrew it and now everyone’s funds (or what’s left of them) are sitting in a bank account somewhere under the direct control of Johnson.
Otherwise Achieve is in even bigger trouble than first thought.
So when I got paid before Payoneer severed ties, that means I was part of a scam??
@Travis
Yes. You, knowingly or not, stole funds from those who invested after you.
That’s how these matrix cyclers work.
Could be happening?
Hold up.
The SEC declining to comment doesn’t mean anything.
US regulators do not confirm or deny the existance of an investigation unless the party being investigated has acknowledged they are being investigated first, or legal action is brought forward (including out of court settlements).
You became a part of it when you paid in. You got paid made you a “net winner” in an alleged Ponzi scheme.
I was suspicious of Troy from the first time I inquired about his opportunity a few years back. He’s not some nice guy he’s painting himself to be and I saw right through him, which is why I decided against joining his opportunity.
I have no regrets. I’m just baffled as to why they’re still taking people’s money and amazed how many people are gullible enough to continue buying in.
The facebook group is full of people building one another up instead of being honest so people really know what’s going on.
I’m glad I found this website where someone is being honest with the people about the achieve community… finally!
Sadly there was a time I supported Achieve and I have long since been re-awakened out of my foolish rainbow chasing dream. I truly feel bad for all the people she has taken money from since purchases & re-purchases started back up a month ago or so.
These two deserve to be wearing stripes in a Federal Penitentiary, until they’ve worked back the money they have stolen from the initial investors, who will never see a penny from their investments into this ridiculous scam.
Johnson’s first priority should’ve been to pay the people who’s positions had cycled right prior to Payoneer dumping them. Yet she continues with these nonsense updates (“dangling of carrots”, as stated above) in order to continue taking money from these new people coming in.
Shame on her and Barnes for doing this! I hope they both do time! Thanks for reading!
17 days ago, their refund processor iPayDNA, approved my $1000 refund. But, they also told me that I could wait up to 2 or 3 months to see it reflected in my bank account.
I call complete bullshit. They have been giving me the run-around, and have ignored my demands for a means to directly speak to their bank, 5 times actually.
I can’t wait 2 or 3 months for my $1000. Achieve is as crooked as they come! I hope Kristi n Troy are behind bars soon!
There’s nothing to be baffled about.
They’re thieves who intentionally set out to steal as much other peoples’ money as they could.
Everything they have done or said has been to that end – make as much money as is possible.
Everything else is pure B/S
Kristi Johnson posted Feb 2 they will begin paying out on Wednesday Feb 4, but you can sign up to buy & repurchase positions now. LOL!!! Some things never change!
Why do you think they will accept purchases, but not pay out until after? They don’t HAVE money to pay people with, they need their loyal idiots to pay it for them with new money being out in smh..
Kristi n Troy are really complete idiots. I know they’ve been involved with these types of programs before, and let’s all make sure this is thr last time they put people through this.