My elderly parents lost a minimum of $30,000 to this scam (and 
my blood boils just thinking about it.)  Somehow my father was contacted 
or he contacted someone selling him on this get-rich-quick scam.  My 
father is close to 80 and trusts everyone, much to his family's dismay.  
He bought the story, hook, line, and sinker, and "invested" my parents' 
entire savings without my mother's knowledge into Global.  He went to 
two seminars:  one was in Acapulco and one in Antigua.  Since he was 
trying to sell others into it who didn't have money, he bought their way 
into the awful scam PLUS paid for their trips to Antigua and Acapulco.  
My parents are NOT wealthy people.  It didn't matter how much we begged 
and pleaded with him not to stay involved, he stayed in.

The sales pitch that they had my father read over the phone was 
devastating to me because we were brought up in a truthful family and I'd 
never known my father to lie......until I overheard his sales pitch one day 
and I couldn't believe my ears!  Now, I realize that he wasn't forced 
to say what he was saying but it is what he was told to say, and he 
trusted these people.

He came back from the seminars informing our mother that they no longer 
needed to pay taxes and he was going to scrounge up some more money to 
buy into the next level because the money was just going to start 
rolling in!  No one in our family could believe that he actually believed 
the BS that he was being told and couldn't understand the hold this group 
had over him.

My father started receiving angry phone calls from former "clients" of 
his that were threatening to sue him if he didn't refund their money.  
I don't know if that's what opened his eyes or not, but eventually he 
did realize that the money was not going to come in and then he 
subsequently found out that the company had changed their name and were "hiding 
out" from the government because they were "on to them."  

To this day it is a topic that brings out so much anger that I just 
can't function when i think about it.  And then tonight when I watched the 
program on 48 Hours it just brought the anger to the surface again.  

Unfortunately my father is still hoping to strike it rich and falls 
prey to these predators who reach out to trusting people.  They ALL 
infuriate me.  

I feel like I need to do something to stop this heinous crime (yes, it 
is heinous........people are committing suicide over their misfortune) 
but feel absolutely powerless if not even the government can do 
anything to stop Global.

My heart goes out to other individuals who have been violated by these 
despicable people who make it their life's mission to abuse other 
humans to their gain, in any way, shape, or form, and who do not care whose 
life they ruin along the way.