Chris Lesh (604) 339-0806 or (604) 525-0818) called me from Primerica Canada.  It's a GOOD company. They've done a lot more for my financial situation than any bank ever do would! He’s an easier person to work with than any boss I’ve ever come across so far.  Also, he’s very suportive.  The company seems to have a non-mainstream approach for hiring people which took me for a spin at first but I guess that doesn’t really matter in long run. If you get a call from him, I think you’d be making mistake if you didn’t check out the work opportunity at the Coquitlem office once before giving a yes or a no.

If you're looking to research Primerica instead of just intending to find so-called justification to talk yourself/someone out of it, you should click on:1. http://www.primericabusinessopportunity.com/p ... c-partners.html (not an anonymous blog or thread)Primerica is partnered up with: Lockwood Advisors, Legg Mason Global Asset Management, Invesco, Pioneer Investments, AGF, MetLife, Morningstar, etc.After googling, there is an obvious underground conspiracy network rumor that Primerica is a scam or just a plain shady company. If that's a fact then God must have pulled a pretty good shade over the eyes of all those big name companies/people. Don't they know? Are they just unaware? Did they not bother checking the company out? Did they not think to google and believe what they read? Do they know that Primerica is a scam and are they just willing to jeopardize their important reputation too? Scams in the financial industry are researched extensively, put out of business, and will probably be heavily charged.The above paragraph also applies to numbers 2 - 11 that follow that are all third party pieces. The first link above is enough but some people who like to research want to know more and more. Was Primerica just successful in putting a blindfold over the eyes of everyone working in these companies/organizations?2. http://www.bbb.org/atlanta/business-reviews/f ... -duluth-ga-6985 (not an anonymous blog or thread)The Better Business Bureau has accredited Primerica and given the company an A+ rating.3. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A.M.+Best+Assig%20...%20f...-a088999923 (not an anonymous blog or thread)A.M. Best Co., that has been around since 1899 and rates the financial strength of insurance companies in the marketplace, also gives Primerica an A+ rating.4. http://www.pr-inside.com/primerica-completes- ... on-r1797274.htm (not an anonymous blog or thread) Primerica has completed the National Ethics Qualification with the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association.5. http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/Search/Results.asp?s=primerica (not an anonymous blog or thread)Primerica is registered with the British Columbia Securities Commission. Actually, it's licensed and registered in every province and state.6. http://www.dailyfinance.com/company/primerica ... ional-ownership (not an anonymous blog or thread)Primerica is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is one of the top 10 holders in the stock with over $25 million in shares. Will everyone who dislikes Primerica refuse CPP payments at retirement? Are the top 10 holders also unaware that PRI is a scam?7. http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/ ... on=22&IdPub=209 (not an anonymous blog or thread)An article in the Investment Executive newspaper (March 2011) rates Primerica as the top performer in terms of assets under management.8. http://www.thestreet.com/story/10503052/1/the ... -companies.html (not an anonymous blog or thread)The Street lists Primerica as one of the top 22 strongest life insurance companies.9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLUuim4LiVU (not an anonymous blog or thread)Primerica's co-CEO is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business channel. 10. http://bestdistancelearning.info/tag/company-with-most-6-figure-earners (not an anonymous blog or thread)Administration at Best Distance Learning announces that Primerica is the company with the most six-figure income earners ($100,000+ per year) in the United States.11. http://www.ripoffreport.com/con-artists/primerica/primerica-bait-and-switch-job-4y979.htm (not an anonymous blog or thread)Rip Off Report did their own investigations on the negative comments posted on the site only to discover that Primerica's competitors were underhandedly trying to falsely incriminate the company. If they're doing it on this site then there's a pretty good chance that they're doing it all over the internet with articles, blogs, and threads.12. Talk to some of Primerica's 6,000,000 (approximation) clients and talk to some, of the 100,000 (approximation) licensed people working in Primerica, who are having success. Conclusion: Primerica has a great reputation outside of the underground conspiracy network which mostly consists of anonymous blogs and threads.  Anonymous = fake name or no name.  The authors of the material shown in the websites attached to the above links may not reveal their actual names either but they are sites that are not open to the general public.  Any site that gives the general public the freedom to voice their opinions/statements, gives them the freedom to also lie/exaggerate.ORIf you're looking for information on Primerica with just the intention of finding so-called justification to talk yourself/someone out of it, you should just type Primerica into Google and choose to believe what certain people have written.

I too, fell victim to this scam known as Primerica. It all started one day when I was soundly sleeping in my bed when an unknown number called my cell phone and left me a voicemail. I listened to the voicemail and couldn't even hardly make out the name of the company from which the guy said he was calling. In the voicemail, he asked if I was still looking for employment.
As a recent college graduate desperate to find a job in this sluggish economy, I gladly called back and set up an interview. So I met with the guy who was to become my "field trainer" or whatever and he explained to me what I would be doing, and as a journalism major in college, I hadn't the slightest clue or interest in selling insurance, which is what I got out of the interview, but desperate to work, I agreed to a second interview, and the really weird part is that he asked me if I wanted to meet at the local office or if I wanted him to come to my house (strange).

I always felt really pressured when I met with him, and I found it strange the way he always had me write down names of people who I knew. He told me that there was a $99 fee but that if I didn't have it, I could do a "scholarship" program to where I go with my field trainer on three "successful" interviews with prospective buyers/victims in my "warm market" (people close to me - friends and family) to waive the $99 fee, which is what I chose to do.

So we went on several interviews to houses of people who I knew and the whole process just seemed a little strange to me. I found it weird how I wasn't participating (I would just sit at the kitchen table watching him explain all this information to my friends who were just as confused as me) and how he always left papers with everyone and asked them to fill out names of people who they knew. Even to customers who didn't or wasn't interested in the whole process, he would constantly call me and ask if I had gotten the list of names. Finally after the third client, my field trainer just stopped calling me and that's when I knew that I had been scammed. I could tell from the beginning that it was a little strange and didn't seem like a real job, but being the desperate unemployed college graduate that I am, I accepted.

I feel absolutely embarrassed to have to tell my friends that it was a scam and I am constantly apologizing to them for putting them through this and for giving out their personal financial information to these crooks at Primerica. These cronies are a weird bunch as well. My field trainer told me that I needed to go to the weekly meetings which were every Tuesday night and this was during the summer and Tuesday nights were volleyball nights for me so I rarely showed up and just made excuses as to why I wasn't there.

The few meetings that I went to were absolute repeats of one another. The same people got up in the same order and talked about the same old stuff - about how great Primerica was and how it's changed their lives, etc. I spent the entire time asking myself, "What am I doing here with these scammers?" To top it off, my field trainer told me that I needed to go to a regional meeting in St. Louis, which was the biggest joke and waste of time of my entire life.

All of these Primerica people are the most brainwashed and ridiculous-acting people I've ever met. I thought to myself that it was just a big cult. To anyone who comes into contact with these people, I would say hang up the phone or slam the door immediately before they lure you in before it's too late. I made no money but lost no money either - only thing I lost was some respect among my friends and a great deal of time that I could have spent looking for other jobs.

You will see a lot of garbage posted by bottom-feeding Primerica shills here and elsewhere.  These maggots are total failures and have nothing better to do with their time than posting phony garbage and fake websites all over the place.

Hey.Yeah.he called me at work asking what our hours of operation are. I told him what time we close and then he asked me for my name. I told him. he called me back next day and asked for me. when I took the call, he told me discretely that he liked way I presented myself over the phone and asked if I was keeping work options open cuz his company is looking for some sharp people.I checked it out cuz I gotta admit that I don’t dig my job a whole lot.  Hope my boss ain’t reading this. LOL. What a great company!  Didn’t even know that opportunities like this exist.  good news is it won’t even conflict with my regular J-O-B (Just Over Broke).  I too thought about the (unique?) way that he got me into the biz but then I thought after “does it really matter if this company is truly the right part time or full time fit for me?”. I googled his number outa curiosity and I didn’t even know about the http://800notes.com and the http://phoneowner.info sites until now.Good to see that I’m not the first to write something good on here about the company.  Yeah, check it out!

Yup. Kinda expected certain people to be all over this. The non mainstream approach that goes with Primerica, filters out the skeptics and the naysayers. This page on chris seems ok but other writeups (blogs) look like a playground for these people.
I agree with a lot of stuff that's being written on this company here. No  one can question this company's bottom line credibility in terms of size, strength, and legitimacy. Also, the great potential that this company talks about is definitely there! I was given a good introduction to this company recently and every one who gets started should know that this is an "entrepreneurial opportunity".  Most people expect this opportunity to behave like a job in the long run even though they're told that it isn't one. Right now, I'm running an internet marketing business and did a lot of entrepreneurial stuff before that cuz I know that JOB(Just Over Broke)'s suck!
During the few times that I've been to the office in Coquitlam, I've heard people ask silly questions like
Q: Will I have to bug people if I work here?  
My answr: LOL. I've never come across an entrepreneurial endeavor that doesn't involve bugging people to an extent.
Q: Is this sales?
My answer: LOL. I've never come across an entrepreneurial endeavor that doesn't have a sales component.
There's no entrepreneur if you eliminate BUG and SALES. Sorry.  \
If you've noticed that jobs aren't delivering for you which I'm sure that most of you have, you'd better try something entrepreneurial like this! If you're completely convincing yourself that your job (or a job) will deliver for you long term then go for it and "good luck". If I were to sit down with you, I'll bet I could prove that it won't.
I sat down with Chris (604) 525-0818. He's going places! I was convinced that he's a Christian. How could someone have such a soothing voice otherwise? I'd join someone like that. Maybe he comes across as a bit pompous and that Brad guy did as well but I'm sure they've earned the right.
Since people seem to be adding internet links from reputable sources here, I'll gladly help:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4133597/primer ... 84:b32406106:z0
I've noticed that reputable sources don't write negative and/or falsified stuff on this company but anonymous sources definitely do!

I've had an interesting experience with Primerica. I found this forum because I was looking for information about the cult-like practices of this "company."After what I've observed, I'm very interested in the creepy culture of false reward the company creates. I'm no psychologist, but after dabbling in Primerica for a summer I was really more concerned about the way they very obviously 'prey' on certain populations. Primerica pushes and violates a lot of boundaries ethically, and seems to be questionable at best as a business opportunity for ANYONE. At the time I was a college student and a sister-in-law tried to recruit me. She has been heavily involved in Primerica for many years. She also begged for info about friends ofamily I thought would be interested, and I gave her 2 or 3 contacts. I was curious, broke, and also wanted to appease my new sister-in-law.I signed on and agreed to go to a few insurance classes. I paid the $199 thinking "what the hell. It's supposed to be reimbursed, and that's a lot cheaper than what it costs to get the education and take the licensure exam independently" which in some states is true. I'll admit it the class bored me to tears when it wasn't totally pissing me off. I walked out of the second session. But I can see how a determined person would stay on and get licensed. It just wasn't for me. I lost my $199 but did gain some knowledge about how insurance works - not $199 worth, though.What really bothered me was how the population of the class so disproportionately consisted of immigrants. I teach ESL and work in the health care field and believe me, many of these people had marginal or limited English skills at best. I *know* a majority of them had trouble understanding some of the complex language of business and insurance principles (judging by how many people sitting at my table asked me in a whisper to repeat or explain parts of the lecture). During break I asked a few participants what they'd been told, and was heartbroken to hear they'd all been 'recruited' by Primerica agents, tricked into thinking they could become 'financial consultants' and make tons of money. $199 is a lot of money for some folks and I don't want to even think how many of them lost it and didn't benefit one bit. How can that just continue to happen and no one has called them on it?My husband and I have also observed his sister and her family's involvement over the years with Primerica. She holds some kind of very high position and has her own office and seems to be successful. She has no college degree, which is fine, but I've noticed that she seems almost anti-college in her attitude. Sure that's somewhat understandable for anyone who becomes financially successful w/o a degree. But she almost pooh-pooh's college education, which I can't believe since she's a mother of two. How can a company encourage that kind of belief and no one has called them on it?Other family members and friends have also been to her "award ceremonies" where they've all reported the same story about the strange, disturbing ideology that the "Primericans" seem to have bought into. They give out trophies, plaques and ribbons for vague distinctions and their recipients run down the aisle to collect them while "Eye of the Tiger" plays. Everyone who has begrudgingly attended one of these (for her sake) comes back saying they're creeped out. They talk a lot of weird, unspecific rhetoric about "personal growth" and "strategies" that's all cloaked in business language to make it seem legit. They do a really good job of 'personalizing' their MLM/pyramid scheme to make the recuiting 'agents' feel like they're these wildly successful 'businesspeople' and 'sales reps' who are 'leaders' and 'regional managers.' That's all fine and good - a lot of companies do the same thing - but there's almost no focus on the product - developing it, producing it, improving it - anything. They use their CitiGroup parent company backing to further coerce people into thinking it's legit or has potential to make anyone rich. How can a Fortune 500 company like CitiGroup maintain ties to this scheme for so long and no one has called them on it?What finally convinced me that Primerica is a dangerous commercial cult is that when I backed away from it, my sister-in-law no longer had interest in me - as a person, as a relative, as a friend or family member. She hasn't called in months. She came to a party I threw and was coldly cordial. Her WHOLE attitude toward me changed. That's when I knew she was totally and completely brainwashed by her involvement with Primerica and was letting the principles of the company's insidious, deceptive practices make decisions for her.After all this happened and I've had some time to think about it, I truly believe Primerica practices groupthink mind control to make money preying on vulnerable people, and contrives a carefully constucted ideological foundation for their victims to "believe" in. I do believe some people can become successful working the Primerica scheme, but far too seldom to build any kind of ethically sound promises on.And what I mean by "call them on it" is a legitimate, public, wide-ranging investigation by a large, regulatory entity like the FBI or FTC. Not some pissed off people squawking on the Internet. They are ripping off poor people, who often lack the resources or feel too powerless to fight back in numbers. How can they be represented? What would it take for someone to REALLY blow the whistle on this corrupt organization?