A legend in the multi-level marketing world, Jessie “Boss Lee” Ward, vice president of Pruvit, a ketone supplement multi-level marketing company (MLM), has died after a brief battle with colon cancer. Ward, who claimed to have recruited more than 12,000…[Continue Reading...]
Cristiano Ronaldo promotes the Herbalife brand, whose “products have been linked to serious negative health effects.” This is perhaps the only positive news on Twitter, or rather on X, since Elon Musk took control of the social network. From now…[Continue Reading...]
It's disturbing to learn of yet another mass-market-level consumer fraud that was reportedly committed exploiting legal financial channels to defraud thousands of people in various districts. According to a report by Prothom Alo, the group behind this is a multi-level marketing…[Continue Reading...]
Multi-level marketing companies sometimes face allegations of operating as pyramid schemes, in part because of how they’re structured. In both illegal pyramid schemes and legal multi-level marketing companies, sales representatives sell products or services while recruiting people to join them.…[Continue Reading...]
Young New Zealanders worried about the cost of living are being drawn into multilevel marketing schemes, but there’s a warning that they can be costly, both financially and socially. Multi-level marketing is where a person earns money by promoting and…[Continue Reading...]
Healy World only entered the multi-level marketing world a few years ago. But it's been blitzing social media in the past few months to try to gain new distributors. In the past, these schemes usually pushed nonessential consumer goods like…[Continue Reading...]
Most people aren’t making money off these opportunities, though. A 2018 AARP Foundation study found that only one-quarter of MLM participants earned a profit, while nearly half lost money. Of the few who did profit, 53% reported earning $5,000 or…[Continue Reading...]
Many multi-level marketing (MLM) companies and similar entities are running nationwide in breach of regulations, thus endangering investors and undermining the country's economic management, according to an official finding. Without valid licences, these companies employ false promises of substantial earnings…[Continue Reading...]
The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back with a new set of products—that look remarkably…[Continue Reading...]
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a permanent ban on multi-level marketing firm Validus, after the High Court dismissed the company's appeal. The permanent stop order prohibited US-registered Validus and associated people from repeating "unlawful behaviour that may cause…[Continue Reading...]
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