Recently, under the guidance of the Ministry of Public Security and the Department of Guangdong Province, the Dongguan police successfully dismantled a "Qianmu Lingzhi" extraordinarily large illegal fund-raising gang headed by Quan Mou. The case involved more than 90,000 people across the country and illegally deposited more than 4.1 billion yuan.
"Qianmu Ganoderma lucidum" company promised that as long as you buy 10,000 yuan of Ganoderma lucidum products, you can become a member, from the third month, you can get about 23% per month, that is, 2000 yuan to 2500 yuan of consumption rebates. In about a year, you can get a return on principal and interest equivalent to three times the purchase amount. According to preliminary statistics, the "Qianmu Lingzhi" company illegally absorbed deposits from the public, involving more than 90,000 people across the country, and illegally absorbed more than 4.1 billion yuan.
This routine is not new, the basic is: pay the membership fee (franchise fee, membership fee, etc., anyway, is to pay money), by pulling down the line to give you a high return, the product is basically not important.
Many people will not be able to withstand the temptation of high returns, so they will invest money in it, and many times they will lose everything.
Today, Pig Pig will tell you about some new MLM routines.
Characteristics of MLM
1. Pay or covertly pay the door fee, that is, after paying money to join, you can get the "qualification" of remuneration and development of the downline;
2. Directly or indirectly develop the downline, that is, pull people to join, and form a hierarchy in a certain order;
3. The funds or sales performance paid by the upper line from the direct or indirect development of the downline are calculated remuneration or rebates.
To put it bluntly, as long as there are "paying membership fees", "pulling people's heads", and "forming a level team to calculate remuneration" at the same time, it can be concluded that it is suspected of pyramid schemes.
The difference between MLM and direct marketing
Pyramid schemes: illegal and criminal acts combated by the state; when joining, you must pay a high entrance fee or purchase a certain number of products, which is often a hierarchical relationship formed by the pyramid, and the participants will develop the downline to defraud the amount of funds to get a commission.
Direct sales: legal business activities approved by the Ministry of Commerce to obtain a direct sales license; the enterprise recruits direct salesmen, direct salesmen directly sell products to consumers, and direct salesmen extract remuneration according to sales performance.
However, we should also pay attention to the fact that some direct selling companies will also adopt the talent level of operation, and direct selling is basically in a state of no law and no supervision.
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The new type of pyramid scheme deceives people
1. Virtual currency pyramid schemes
Virtual currency is a virtual currency issued by some enterprises on the network, which is not protected by national laws and has no use value.
Its expression is mostly XX coins. The general routine of virtual currency is: 1, you want to spend money to buy an account, or you want to spend money to buy a virtual mining machine to dig virtual currency. 2, spend money to give you static income after joining, give a little money every day, the total income will be greater than the amount you invested. For example, if you want to spend 800 yuan to join, you will be given 18 yuan a day, and the cap income will be higher than 800 yuan. 3, in addition to static income and dynamic income, that is, you go to the development of the downline to pull people's heads, after the downline joins you have income, your downline to close the downline you also have income, some of the highest level up to 9 levels.
The principle of virtual currency is similar to the Ponzi scheme, which is to dismantle the east wall to make up for the west wall, and one day there will be a break in funds and collapse. We must pay attention to the fact that virtual currency is illegal and has no legal protection in China.
2. Tourism pyramid schemes
Tourism pyramid schemes are to declare that they can still make money by traveling. Its routine is generally: 1, to pay a certain entrance fee, open an account, after deducting the account opening fee, the remaining fee is what you can use for tourism (different organizations have different names, some are points, some are virtual currency), and will also charge management fees every month. 2. Each month, X members can be exempted from management fees and can get rewards. If you introduce a member and then introduce a member, you will also receive a reward.
To put it bluntly, tourism pyramid schemes are to attract you under the guise of not spending money to travel, and then use various name restrictions, and finally promote your continuous development of the offline to be possible to travel. If you think that as long as you work hard to develop the downline, you can only say that you can travel for free, which is very naïve. The gamer is sure that the accountant is very clear, and you can almost enjoy free travel, but in fact, you have to rely on money to meet the conditions of use.
Third, e-commerce pyramid schemes
The form of e-commerce MLM is the rebate layer by layer of shopping. Its routine is generally: 1, you have to pay a certain fee to join the game. 2, you go to pull down the line and earn commission by downline consumption.
In fact, to put it bluntly, under the guise of selling goods, you have to pay money to enter the game, and constantly pull down the line (basically 9 levels), the more people who pull the more money they make, they only care about how many downlines are pulled, they don't care whether the goods are really valuable, the existence of goods and goods is just more real, making people feel that this is not a pyramid scheme.
Times have changed, and MLM is no longer about tricking you into passing, restricting your personal freedom, and threatening you to participate in MLM by means of scolding. Now the expression of pyramid schemes is becoming more and more diverse, but it is not far from its origins. Remember, as long as you have the "payment of membership fees", "pulling people's heads", "forming a level team to calculate remuneration" at the same time, you can conclude that it is suspected of pyramid schemes.
In the end, don't be greedy, be down-to-earth, and don't be attracted by high returns. Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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