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--A Consumer Bulletin

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Analytical Tools

The Myth of MLM Income Opportunity
The most comprehensive report available on the MLM business, a consumer report that reveals the actual losses of 99% of all recruits in major MLMs. Data is presented from eleven MLM schemes and analyzes it a way that is understandable. The report also details the tricks used by the schemes to lure people. Shocking losses and extraordinary deception are exposed. Read before you invest. Read if a family member is in an MLM.

Do-It-Yourself Evaluation of Multi-Level Marketing* Programs and Suspected Pyramid Schemes
A Proactive Guide for Consumers, Regulators, and Consumer Advocates

Twelve Tests for Evaluating a Network Marketing "Opportunity"

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Articles

The "Non-Retail" Direct Selling Company. As market-based economies become the prevailing global model, millions of people are being exposed to sales promotions, income opportunity solicitations, and investment schemes with which they have no experience or knowledge. Vulnerability to deception and the need for consumer education correspondingly reach global heights.

The Ten Big Lies of Multilevel Marketing

MLM, a Consumer Fraud - Understand how MLMs defraud consumers through a calculated program of deception and a business model in which 99% of all new recruits will and must lose.

When Should An MLM or Network Marketing
Program Be Considered an Illegal Pyramid Scheme?
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Where's The Harm? How do North America's three largest MLMs stack up against gambling in Las Vegas?

The American Scam
Just as thousands of Americans have been tricked by the "Nigerian Scam", millions of people in other countries around the world are losing money in the "American" Scam called multi-level marketing.

Amway's Fleecing of India

Amway/Quixtar Negative Sum Game

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Books

Merchants of Deception by Eric Scheibeler

Amway Motivational Organizations: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors, by Ruth Carter

False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes, by Robert FitzPatrick and Joyce Reynolds

The Network Marketing Game, by Jon M. Taylor, PhD

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Humor

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Links

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Pamphlets

The Case for Reopening the Amway Pyramid Scheme Case: An Inquiry into the Legality of Multi-Level Marketing, by Robert FitzPatrick

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Other

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