Known as the search website "Love Search" from the United States, you can make money by clicking on advertisements and spend 1.35 million yuan to buy equity. In fact, it is a pyramid scheme in a network coat.
Before 2009, Lu got in touch with "Huanwang", the predecessor of "Love Search" website, through friends. At first, I joined just to make more friends after retirement, so that I could get together and chat and earn some money. However, with this "career" growing, her attention is more focused on developing offline and making money.
Lu personally brainwashed the staff and taught the bonus reward system of "direct sales award" (25% offline purchase) and "indirect sales award" (5% per level).
Zhou Shaocheng explained: "The higher the membership fee, the higher the level. If you don't develop the downline, you will be downgraded. Once your downline level exceeds you, you won't get any commission on his sales. "
By the time of the incident, the pyramid scheme gang headed by Lu had developed more than 5,000 pyramid schemes, and Lu illegally made more than 500,000 yuan.
As of June, 20 14, Lu et al. carried out pyramid selling activities under the guise of "Aisuo" website: newcomers paid 1000 to 10000 dollars to become members, bought advertising packages, received member websites, and clicked every day to introduce others to join the club.
20 14 10 13, Nantong public security bureau announced that the public security organs of nine provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangsu, acted in unison and successfully destroyed the MLM organization in this time and in more than 30 cities across the country.
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On 20 15 10 19, the market supervision bureau of Haimen city, Jiangsu province received a case clue letter from the economic case investigation brigade of Haimen city public security bureau, claiming that Tang participated in the "love search" pyramid scheme from September 20 12 to June 20 14, and transferred it to the market supervision bureau for investigation and handling.
After preliminary verification, the situation is basically true, and the behavior of the parties is suspected to constitute the behavior stipulated in Item (3) of Article 7 of the MLM Prohibition Regulations. In order to further ascertain the facts, Haimen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau filed an investigation on the same day.
After investigation, the party concerned joined the "Love Search" sales on September 20 12 through the introduction of his aunt Tang Moumou. After the party becomes a member of "Aisou", Tang Moumou first arranges the direct offline of Wei Liu, a member of "Aisou". In order to obtain income, under the persuasion of Tang Moumou, Feng Mou, the mother of the client, also joined the "love search" and became the direct offline of the client (client contribution 1 10,000 yuan).
After that, the customer helped his father join "Love Search" and became the direct offline of the customer. Feng, the mother of the client, recommended her sister to join the "Love Search" and became the direct offline of the client. At this point, Liu, Feng, the father and sister of the parties are all direct logoffs of the parties.
In addition, the client used his friend Li's ID card to invest in "Love Search" and became Tang's downline. He used Li's husband Xu's ID card to invest in "Love Search" and became his direct downline.
Feng, the mother of the client, recommended the uncle and niece of the client to join the "Love Search" and developed online and offline relationships respectively. The parties get income after developing offline personnel. On August 9, 20 14, 19, Haimen public security bureau seized the illegal income of the parties of RMB 280,000.
It was also found that the "love search" that the parties participated in was pyramid schemes. Tang Moumou and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment by Haimen People's Court for organizing and leading pyramid schemes.
Haimen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau believes that the "love search" sales that the parties participate in are pyramid schemes that require the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, form an online and offline relationship, and calculate and pay online rewards based on offline sales performance.
In the whole process, the parties helped their father and mother to join the "love search" and became offline, and borrowed the ID cards of their friend Li and her husband Xu to join the "love search" and indirectly introduced offline members, which had certain initiative. The purpose of the parties concerned is to obtain more income by developing offline personnel, which belongs to the act of introducing others to participate in pyramid schemes and should be punished.
In view of the fact that the parties only introduced their relatives and friends to join the pyramid scheme and did not introduce others to join it, they were not investigated for criminal responsibility after investigation by the public security organs, and the circumstances were minor.
Referring to the relevant provisions of the Administrative Punishment Law and the Guiding Opinions of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Correctly Exercising the Discretion of Administrative Punishment by the Administration for Industry and Commerce, Haimen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau imposed an administrative penalty on the parties concerned in terms of legal purpose, facts, nature, plot and social harmfulness.
To sum up, the above-mentioned behavior of the parties constitutes the behavior stipulated in Item (3) of Article 7 of the MLM Prohibition Ordinance. According to the second paragraph of Article 24 of the MLM Prohibition Regulations, our bureau decided to deal with the party Tang Hua as follows: it was ordered to stop the illegal act and confiscate the illegal income of 280,000 yuan.
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