In a sidebar to this hoo-hah, here's this week's business news on Primerica:Citigroup to Sell Last of Its Stake in Primericahttp://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/citigr ... rimerica-stake/"Citigroup ... prepares to sell the last of its remaining shares in the firm it took public last year.. . . . . . . . . . Primerica?s stock was down about 6 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday."Citi Sells Last of its Primerica Shareshttp://www.forbes.com/sites/marketnewsvideo/2 ... imerica-shares/"Citi spun off the provider of insurance, investment and savings products last year. Primerica now serves ?Main Street? America as a standalone company, competing with companies like MetLife and Prudential."So Primerica now has to strike "subsidiary of CitiGroup" from all of its promo copy and sales presentations. It's been reported that sales spielers would try hard not to mention the name "Primerica" until totally necessary. Momma's apron is lifted from its face now, not that hiding behind a Bailout Bank was any great shakes. The Primerica name is part of a long heritage of fraud and name changes, and if the current name is as soiled as certain corporate trolls fear, another rebranding is coming in 2012.

Awesome Michael - thank you.  I went in for the interview, and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had.  What a professional team - what an awesome company - nice guy too!

After seeing the list of CMA sponsors on their website, I question the point of checking with the CMA.  Here is the quote from their website that matters: "CMA is a private trade association funded by its members."  The CMA isn't out there to promote good.  It's out there to promote the sponsors' interests.  Strawberry said, "If not listed, ask yourself why?"  Shall I raise suspicion to the tens of thousands of other companies, then?  How about asking why there are only 20 sponsors to the entire organization, and why they are bothering with funding the CMA?  Whatever may be said about MLMs and Primerica, I question Strawberry's judgement.

In a sidebar to this hoo-hah, here's this week's business news on Primerica:

Citigroup to Sell Last of Its Stake in Primerica
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/citigr ... rimerica-stake/

"Citigroup ... prepares to sell the last of its remaining shares in the firm it took public last year.
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Primerica’s stock was down about 6 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday."

Citi Sells Last of its Primerica Shares
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketnewsvideo/2 ... imerica-shares/

"Citi spun off the provider of insurance, investment and savings products last year. Primerica now serves “Main Street” America as a standalone company, competing with companies like MetLife and Prudential."


So Primerica now has to strike "subsidiary of CitiGroup" from all of its promo copy and sales presentations. It's been reported that sales spielers would try hard not to mention the name "Primerica" until totally necessary. Momma's apron is lifted from its face now, not that hiding behind a Bailout Bank was any great shakes. The Primerica name is part of a long heritage of fraud and name changes, and if the current name is as soiled as certain corporate trolls fear, another rebranding is coming in 2012.

Primerica solicits as follows:You post your resume on Monster, CareerBuilder, etc.They troll the resumes. They call you.They leave a voice mail that says something like: "our company is opening a branch office in your area and we were referred to you as a strong candidate for a managerial position." If you call them or speak with them on the phone, they will invariably demurr on the details on the business, and pretty much stay with the vague script wording that they use in their voicemail. They will stay with the "management position for a big important company" schtick.At this point, having had my time wasted with one of the A-holes once on an in person meeting a few years ago, I bust them. I just say: "are you really representing Primerica". I generally get a sheepish "yeah". I tell them something along the lines of: "SORRY! I have a career, and what you are offering is total crap."  Usually they hang up on me. My fun for the day.The point is, Primerica doesn't pay a salary, they demand an enrollment fee, they want you to attend their cult training, and they do not go out looking for programmers. It's a financial services MLM pyramid. The "jobs" are commission only sales jobs, and you create your own leads. You are supposed to recruit other Primerica stooges.  Utterly consistent and deceptive recruiting M.O.

This Primerica bottom feeder has been phoning and bothering me trying to get me to pay fees and join this scam.  Thanks for all the useful information here.