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Déjà vu: WA State Regulators Let LuLaRoe Off; Ignore Elephant in the Room

Déjà vu: WA State Regulators Let LuLaRoe Off; Ignore Elephant in the Room

Feb 5, 2021 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, Legalities and Laws, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics

For all the news coverage, including a hilarious Samantha Bee commentary, interviews of tearful and angry victims, torrents of social media debate, and an upcoming film documentary, the state prosecution of the MLM, LuLaRoe, ended not with a bang for justice but...
New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

Jan 13, 2020 | False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics

People who free themselves from “MLM” painfully discover an intertwining web of fake income promises, pretenses to “direct selling” and cruel manipulations to induce false hope and constant purchasing. Yet, there is one more layer of deception they often do not...
New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

Advocare’s Claim, “FTC-Made-Us-Quit-MLM,” is Suspicious

May 30, 2019 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics

The big story about the MLM, Advocare, dropping out of MLM and adopting a “single-level” system (actual direct selling) supposedly as a result of “confidential talks” with the FTC is highly suspicious on its face. At its website, Advocare states: On May 17, AdvoCare...
New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

The Importance and Futility of Class Action Lawsuits against MLMs

May 1, 2019 | Ethics, False Profits, Legal, Legalities and Laws

Recently, yet another class action lawsuit has been filed against a “multi-level marketing” company, in this instance, “Young Living Essential Oils”. This Utah-based MLM company (are they all in Utah?) is a digital reproduction of so many other...

“Newspeak” Is Now Official Policy at FTC on MLM

Feb 28, 2019 | False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics

After publishing a recent “Update” newsletter for Pyramid Scheme Alert, I was sent a correction by one reader to the statement that the FTC had not prosecuted any “MLMs” in the last two years. There had been at least two in early 2018, it was...
New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

Consumer Alert: Beware of Scam Using Initials, F.T.C.

Jan 21, 2018 | False Profits, Legalities and Laws, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics

Consumers should be on the lookout for an entrapping and misleading document circulating and being widely referenced on the Internet entitled, “Business Guidance Concerning Multi-Level Marketing.” It purports to offer guidelines for legal and legitimate...
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