A company called "Ranjian Global" claims to have a health care "foreign juice" of origin in the United States, which can cure all diseases and has miraculous curative effects, but it makes many consumer families who are doing "lying to win the dream" miserable. What secrets are hidden in this "Ranjian Global", which is known as the "health care empire"?
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Cancer, insomnia, obesity... A juice that "cures all diseases"
In a café in Wuhan where Members of Ranjian Global Products often gather, a self-proclaimed senior member, Ms. Hu, recommended a flagship product of "Ranjian Global" to reporters - Noni Juice.
Ms. Hu, a senior member of Ranjian Global Company:
It (noni juice) contains senonine, synonin conversion enzyme, specializing in repairing damaged cells in the human body, and has a good effect on cancer, gout, insomnia, kidney deficiency, depression, obesity, etc.
In Ms. Hu's mouth, this juice can effectively improve a variety of common diseases, even terminal illnesses, even if it is a regular medicine, it is difficult to match its miraculous effect. But can this foreign juice really "cure all diseases"?
Magic Juice is only available on the official website of the Hong Kong company
The reporter saw on the official website of Ranjian Global China (Mainland) that only four types of healthy foods are displayed on the Internet, all of which are only simple ingredients and usage introductions, and there is no noni juice product.
Subsequently, according to the official website address, the reporter found the headquarters of Ranjian Global China Company for consultation, and did not find this juice. Just when the reporter had some doubts, another senior member of Ranjian Global told the truth. Originally, noni juice could only be ordered through the official website of Ranjian Global Hong Kong Company.
Ms. Zhou, a senior member of Ranjian Global Company:
Ranjian Global is a global membership point system online supermarket, everything you eat is imported from abroad, this (noni juice) is a dietary supplement, is the Hong Kong website (sales).
Subsequently, the reporter found noni juice on the health food column of the official website of Ranjian Global Hong Kong Company. Unlike the brief content of the Chinese mainland's official website, there are as many as 16 kinds of health foods on the Official Website of Hong Kong, almost all of which have detailed information such as the main effects. Noni juice is described as a functional health drink for health care and is labeled with seven major effects, including "maintaining the normal functioning of tissue cells in the body".
Health care juice relies on "sea tao" The domestic market is not allowed to enter
Ms. Zhou claimed that these foods with health effects have foreign standard certifications, so they do not need to go through the approval and filing of domestic health foods.
In this regard, Liu Xuecong, secretary general of the China Nutrition and Health Food Association, said that although many foreign dietary supplements belong to the category of health food, they do not necessarily meet the corresponding standards of China's health food.
Experts pointed out that at present, there are two major categories of formal channels for overseas health food to enter the Chinese market:
One is that the product has the "blue hat" logo approved by the national regulatory authorities, which can be sold directly and offline physically;
The other is to meet the current cross-border e-commerce regulatory requirements and make online sales.
Ranjian Global's sales method similar to overseas "sea tao" is not included.
Selling products is a cover "brainwashing" is the purpose of membership
During several months of investigation and visits, the reporter found that compared with selling products, the senior members of "Ranjian Global" are more enthusiastic about using the saying of "making big money together" to attract people to join the club. In several meetings with Ms. Hu, a senior member of "Ranjian Global", the reporter was also persuaded to join the membership many times.
According to Ms. Hu's explanation, as long as you buy more than 18,000 yuan of products at one time, you can become a member of Ranjian Global, not only buy products with discounts, but also make money by developing new members.
Ms. Hu said that Ranjian Global Company stipulates that after the new person becomes a member, he can develop the downline, and the main income of the member comes from the points rebate of the downline. Therefore, the more people who develop offline, the higher the level of the member and the more generous the rebate obtained.
After becoming a member of Ranjian Global, the victim, Mr. Ye, watched an online sharing session specifically for members. These online activities are extremely private, you must buy Ranjian products to become a member before you can get the login account, password, the content is mainly high-level members to teach new members, how to deal with family, brag about products, and develop offline.
The Regulations on the Prohibition of Pyramid Schemes clearly stipulate that it is a pyramid scheme for organizers or business operators to obtain illegal benefits by calculating and paying remuneration to the developed personnel on the basis of the number of personnel directly or indirectly developed by them or their sales performance, or by requiring the developed personnel to obtain the qualification to join on the condition of paying a certain fee.
Difficult to sell, members pay out of their own pockets to "relegate"
In fact, many members did not get the advertised rebates, but suffered from it. Because the product does not boast of miraculous efficacy, sales are very difficult, members in order to get offline points rebate, often have to pay out of their own pocket to keep the level.
Can't report because of cross-border? Expert: Civil lawsuits can be filed
The victim, Mr. Ye, said that he had also reported Ranjian Global's suspected pyramid schemes, but because of the ownership of products and personnel, it was finally dismissed.
Ranjian Global (China) Commodity Co., Ltd., whether it is a domestic official website or an offline physical store, does not sell this "health juice", so Mr. Ye believes that it is impossible to report to the relevant domestic institutions. In addition, the so-called "senior members", that is, consumers who develop downlines, want to relegate and earn profits, are not affiliated with "Ranjian Global" in terms of labor relations, but are only considered by the company to be "members" of their own websites. Under the guise of "global point membership", Ranjian Global may have been acquiescing to the vicious spread of this crazy pyramid scheme and profiting from it.
There is really no way to do this suspected pyramid scheme? Experts said that the Internet is not an illegal foreign land, as long as the online marketing activities of these overseas enterprises extend to Chinese territory, they must be subject to the jurisdiction of Chinese law.
Liu Junhai, Professor, Law School of Chinese University:
(Consumers) may go to the court where the defendant is located to file a civil lawsuit, or they may file a civil lawsuit in the court of the place where the contract was signed and performed. More importantly, we must promptly include these untrustworthy enterprises and untrustworthy individuals in the blacklist, and upload their names to this credit publicity system.
Suspected pyramid schemes have been investigated many times and continued to operate after the name change
In fact, it is not the "first time" that "Ranjian Global" has been exposed to suspected pyramid schemes. The company has been investigated and punished several times before for suspected pyramid schemes.
In April 2004, CCTV's "Economic Half Hour" program exposed the suspected pyramid scheme case of "Ranjian Global", which at that time called itself "Lexus". The "Economic Half Hour" program, titled "Underground Rexes, "Set" You Are Not Negotiable", exposed Ranjian Global's suspected pyramid scheme case, and then a large number of similar pyramid scheme cases were exposed across the country.
In May of that year, the company applied to the then State Administration for Industry and Commerce to register "Lexus International (China) Co., Ltd.", and after the name change, it continued to expose the news that it was investigated and punished by the local industrial and commercial departments for suspected network pyramid schemes.
In February 2007, 17 MLM organizations, including the "Lexas (Hong Kong) Branch", were announced to the public by the then State Administration for Industry and Commerce. But in the same year, the company changed its name again to "Ranjian Global" to continue operations.
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