The western development, a new type of pyramid scheme with pure capital operation mode, has been puzzling southern provinces such as Guangxi and Hunan for many years. Its * * * same feature is that pyramid selling behavior is packaged under the overall situation of national development strategies such as Beibu Gulf development, the rise of central China and the development of western China.
In Beihai, Guangxi, there is even a "one-day tour" aimed at pyramid selling: some national policy documents are replaced by pyramid selling, and tourists are taken to the bustling neighborhood where the development achievements of Beibu Gulf can be displayed for "sensory brainwashing".
No matter how varied the western development is, it can't cover up the essence of pyramid selling. In fact, it is very simple. As long as you look at "the need to develop people's heads to make money", you can judge that it is pyramid schemes.
This is the fundamental feature of pyramid selling illegality. MLM inevitably needs to continuously develop the downline and then develop the downline. By joining the downline one by one, the downline supports the downline, and finally the wealth flows to the MLM senior staff, eventually making a small number of people at the top rich, and then destroying the rest. Most people.
It has three characteristics:
1. Registration fee
You need to subscribe for a certain number of goods or pay a certain fee to get the qualification to join or develop the qualification of others to join.
Pull one's head
Develop others to become their own downline, and pay the people who are developed directly or indirectly according to the snowball model.
3. Method of payment
Calculate compensation according to the sales performance of direct or indirect developers.
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2065438+February 2008, Nanning sued 19 people for the mega-pyramid scheme of "western development", involving nearly 30 million yuan. The prosecution alleged that the defendant Zhang (female, 53 years old, from Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province) came to Nanning on 20 13 to join a "consumer investment" pyramid scheme headed by Lu et al. (at large) and formed a pyramid scheme headed by Zhang, Ma, Lin and Li.
The MLM organization lied that it was secretly supported by the state, under the banner of "developing the Beibu Gulf", "developing the west", "consumer investment" and "capital operation", and deceived the people of Nanning by advocating high rebates.
Resource link:
Baidu encyclopedia -MLM
People's Network-New MLM: Personal freedom cannot be restricted in the name of western development.