Benjamin Netanyahu

It sounds too good to be true, but you decide to schedule a meeting with them just to hear them out. Maybe this is actually your family's lucky break. When you sit down with them, they show you all kinds of materials and data. It's actually true. These franchises are opening up all over the country, lightning fast, and they're profitable almost right away.

It sounds too good to be true, but you decide to schedule a meeting with them just to hear them out. Maybe this is actually your family's lucky break. When you sit down with them, they show you all kinds of materials and data. It's actually true. These franchises are opening up all over the country, lightning fast, and they're profitable almost right away.

It sounds too good to be true, but you decide to schedule a meeting with them just to hear them out. Maybe this is actually your family's lucky break. When you sit down with them, they show you all kinds of materials and data. It's actually true. These franchises are opening up all over the country, lightning fast, and they're profitable almost right away.

The Burger Place comes with crazy celebrity endorsements, and the martial arts studio runs totally hands-off. It's awesome. They have all the equipment you're going to need. It's already sorted out. All the branding, the advertising, it's all sorted out. All you need to do is secure the financing to open up shop and your life will change forever. You think it over with your family.

The Burger Place comes with crazy celebrity endorsements, and the martial arts studio runs totally hands-off. It's awesome. They have all the equipment you're going to need. It's already sorted out. All the branding, the advertising, it's all sorted out. All you need to do is secure the financing to open up shop and your life will change forever. You think it over with your family.

The Burger Place comes with crazy celebrity endorsements, and the martial arts studio runs totally hands-off. It's awesome. They have all the equipment you're going to need. It's already sorted out. All the branding, the advertising, it's all sorted out. All you need to do is secure the financing to open up shop and your life will change forever. You think it over with your family.

It's a pretty big risk, but you know that you're hardworking and you've always dreamed of more. The document you took home with you is extensive. It's several hundred pages long and it details everything about how to open and run the store as well as all the legal stuff.

It's a pretty big risk, but you know that you're hardworking and you've always dreamed of more. The document you took home with you is extensive. It's several hundred pages long and it details everything about how to open and run the store as well as all the legal stuff.

It's a pretty big risk, but you know that you're hardworking and you've always dreamed of more. The document you took home with you is extensive. It's several hundred pages long and it details everything about how to open and run the store as well as all the legal stuff.

And I mean, really, it's actually mostly all legal stuff, but it also has all the data about how many other successful businesses that franchise has opened across the country lately. So, you decide to do it. In your next meeting, you sign on the line and you officially join the brand family. Next, you're off to the bank to secure a loan in order to open up your new business.

And I mean, really, it's actually mostly all legal stuff, but it also has all the data about how many other successful businesses that franchise has opened across the country lately. So, you decide to do it. In your next meeting, you sign on the line and you officially join the brand family. Next, you're off to the bank to secure a loan in order to open up your new business.

And I mean, really, it's actually mostly all legal stuff, but it also has all the data about how many other successful businesses that franchise has opened across the country lately. So, you decide to do it. In your next meeting, you sign on the line and you officially join the brand family. Next, you're off to the bank to secure a loan in order to open up your new business.

And I'm sure that you see where this is going. Sometimes this process does work great. If you're working with an honest company, this really can be the path to a new life. But all too often, that document that you're holding is actually filled with deception, half-truth and outright fraud.

And I'm sure that you see where this is going. Sometimes this process does work great. If you're working with an honest company, this really can be the path to a new life. But all too often, that document that you're holding is actually filled with deception, half-truth and outright fraud.

And I'm sure that you see where this is going. Sometimes this process does work great. If you're working with an honest company, this really can be the path to a new life. But all too often, that document that you're holding is actually filled with deception, half-truth and outright fraud.

The Federal Trade Commission sued a franchise called Burgerim, the burger joint that I described just a moment ago in our intro, for fraud. They were selling their franchisees a pipe dream that had nothing to back it up, even though they had information in that document, causing these people to take out huge amounts of debt, only to have nothing actually materialize.

The Federal Trade Commission sued a franchise called Burgerim, the burger joint that I described just a moment ago in our intro, for fraud. They were selling their franchisees a pipe dream that had nothing to back it up, even though they had information in that document, causing these people to take out huge amounts of debt, only to have nothing actually materialize.

The Federal Trade Commission sued a franchise called Burgerim, the burger joint that I described just a moment ago in our intro, for fraud. They were selling their franchisees a pipe dream that had nothing to back it up, even though they had information in that document, causing these people to take out huge amounts of debt, only to have nothing actually materialize.

The Franchise Times reported that they sold at least 1,550 franchises and collected at least $57.7 million in just initial franchise fees from 2015 to 2019. But they had only opened 130 out of 1,550 locations by 2018.

The Franchise Times reported that they sold at least 1,550 franchises and collected at least $57.7 million in just initial franchise fees from 2015 to 2019. But they had only opened 130 out of 1,550 locations by 2018.