Sharing life experience as an old-timer in China.

If someone you know brags about his good life, and that kind of good life has a high threshold for ordinary people and requires a lot of resources.

For example, being arranged by his family to work in monopolistic enterprises like tobacco companies or state grid, or his family found a way to sell colored steel sheds to Fangcang hospitals and produce mask machines during the pandemic, or his family introduced him to a rich and beautiful woman and bought him a house along the way.

Then his good life is probably real, and the purpose of him telling you this is just to show off, not to get you to join him in making money.

If someone you know brags about his good life, but when you ask about the risks, he keeps telling you there are no risks. The purpose of him telling you this is to get you to join him.

Then this is basically electric fraud plus pyramid scheme.