You will lose your friends and associates once you get into these kind of MLM fraud schemes. Because you want to recoup your investment and will try finding bakras and since you cannot approach random people, your targets will be friends and colleagues and relatives and they will probably never talk to you once they know what you are upto.
In fact having normal conversation will be difficult since they will always doubt you and think there is a hidden motive behind whatever you do.
One of my colleague was brainwashing me constantly with Amway MLM and this was in US. In US, Indians try to con other Indians especially who are new to country. But since i was aware about these schemes i did not fall for it.
I was even approached by another Indian couple in a supermarket with such a scheme. They are always searching for a new prey.