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I think my mother is falling victim to a multi-level marketing scam. Can you help me build the case to prove it to her? Tl;dr: My mom might be getting scammed. Can you help me prove it to her by helping me research COGO Capital and Equanum Financial? My mother (age 55) has been a victim before because she is overly trusting, naive, and believes that people really do get rich quick through these "legitimate" businesses. She also has had several years of poor finances and bad luck, which makes her especially vulnerable. This scam is through a friend of hers who started Equanum Financial (https://www.cogocapital.com/broker/bweekes/) through a company called COGO Capital. From what I can tell, and there's shockingly little information on it and subsidiary companies that is readily available, COGO is a private money lender - they broker what could be called nontraditional mortgages and renovation loans by connecting people who want to invest with people who want to buy and flip homes, then take a percentage cut. They have offices in Spokane and Idaho, and perhaps elsewhere. They also employ independent brokers who feed them leads - COGO will create a splash page website (as seen for Equanum Financial above) for these brokers for a fee of $1000 plus a $3000 broker training course. My mother is about to start said course because her friend convinced her to and paid for it, under the pretense that she would work for him and give her 1/3 of the broker commission she would get from COGO. This already raised a red flag, but from what I could find it also seems that COGO hooks in naive brokers to become investors by bullying them into joining "Lee's Inner Circle" then charging thousands of dollars on their credit cards because they will supposedly make it all back up on the first deal. The first deal never comes, but by then it's too late. I could not find much on the internet, but I did find that the COGO is connected to a man named Lee Arnold, who is also connected to othe