One of these kids just came to my door and I ended up giving $40 to him after he gave me the whole song & dance - he suckered me without telling me how expensive this was going to be and at the end I said I couldn't afford it, the price for one book for a children's hospital would end up being $55! He told me he would pay the $15 processing fee himself if I could just do $40; couldn't really afford that either but felt like a jackass for whatever reason so I gave the $40. But then came and read all of these reviews as well as some on ripoff report.com and became angry that I got scammed. I went outside to look for him and ran into another kid doing the same thing. I asked him where his friend was that he was working with and we began talking. He was really friendly and I could tell he was super naive, he said it was a great job bc they got to travel to different places and meet really great people like myself, they are both very complimentary, etc etc. I asked how he got into it and he said some guy picked him up one day when he was panhandling at a gas station bc he had nowhere to go and I got the sense that he did come from a broken home; the guy that picked him up offered him a job and he was working the next day. I realized that he was definitely brainwashed, I felt really bad for him. I told him that I thought he fully believed he was doing something good, bc I do believe that but that he was part of a scam and he was being taken advantage of. He said his 'manager' was picking him up on the corner and I could wait with him, which I did; his manager was in a black expedition and was older, maybe late 20s, and I could tell right away he knew what he was doing so I didn't engage bc at that point I didn't feel safe. I did get my money back but now, after reading 'formerdynasty' post above I feel bad. This situation is really f-ed up...how can we do something to stop this?