My attempted cult recruitment
This tactic is pretty common to get you into a possible MLM scheme. It happened twice to me, and once to my wife. They'll strike up a conversation with you while shopping by commenting on a nice article of clothing or something about you, which leads into a convo about where you work, etc.<p>They're so personable that you're thinking oh nice, I have a new friend and agree to have coffee. Then the second steps and on as the author mentions happens where they start to ask personal questions like if you're happy in life, what would it be like to not have any debt, retire early, etc.<p>This all happens over two-three meetings where they then start to talk about they have a group or mentor they work with that can get you going with your life goals.<p>We never made it into the actual meet the group / mentor part as we knew at this point something felt scammy about it and broke off contact after that.