George Hrab

But once you start doing a little bit of deeper digging, it gets really interesting because this entire company, this Payam Piano Method, is essentially spreading out franchises across the country, right?

It's trying to be the McDonald's of piano teaching.

Which, again, could be an honorable thing.

But here's the problem.

You go to the website and see what are the requirements to teach in one of these dozens, if not hundreds, of future expanding piano laboratories.

And guess what's not a requirement to be a piano teacher?

Well, you're close.

To be able to play the piano?

Number one, you don't have to have any experience as a piano teacher, which is crazy.

And number two, you don't have to know how to play the piano.

Yes.

It's a preferred thing, but it's not a required thing, right?

So you go, so you just start thinking like, well, wait a minute.

And you realize, oh, okay, it's a hundred bucks for a 50 minute lesson, right?

The teacher gets 21 of that and the PIEM school gets the rest.

And they encourage students.

And here it comes.

They encourage students to eventually become teachers.

And you realize this is MLM.

This is a multi-level marketing scam.