Consumer Alert: Beware of Scam Using Initials, F.T.C.
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... “Anti”-Pyramid Scheme Bill and “Alternative Legality”
Update: The proposed law promoted by the Direct Selling Association to protect “MLM” companies from future regulation, criminal prosecution and class action lawsuits was reintroduced in 2017 with changes, though the intent is the same. It is now called HR... Sign of What’s Coming in Pyramid Scheme Law Enforcement at the FTC
Perhaps the clearest and most direct indicator of what is coming in America for pyramid scheme law enforcement and consumer protection occurred in recent week before the inauguration of president-elect, Donald Trump. Regulation and consumer protection are poised for a... Deception and Delusion: How Pyramid Schemes Maintain the “Direct Selling” Disguise
According to the MLM companies, Herbalife, Nu Skin and Amway, and others, the great majority of people who sign sales contracts, join as “salespeople” and buy sales kits have absolutely no interest in being salespeople or in making any money at all in those... Zeek Rewards, Just an Ordinary MLM?
With Batman-like zeal, the SEC swooped in and closed down the multi-level marketing company, Zeek Rewards. Should we all feel safer now? Or should we be wondering why the SEC singled out this one MLM but left all the hundreds of others to run rampant? Zeek offered MLM...FREE REPORT
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