It is a pyramid scheme. Under the guise of selling tea, Black Tea charges high membership fees and develops layers of members.
Dark Tea Company requires participants to pay a fee of 20,000 yuan to obtain membership qualifications by purchasing tea and other products, and forms a hierarchy. The number of developed personnel is used as the basis for calculating remuneration and rebates to induce participants to continue to develop membership. Suspected of illegal pyramid schemes.
To identify MLM, you need to look at three characteristics:
1. Entry fee
Whether it is necessary to subscribe for goods or pay fees to obtain the qualifications to join or to develop others to join the qualifications? Seeking illegal benefits;
2. Pulling people
Whether it is necessary to develop others to become your downlines, and based on the number of people developed, direct or indirect rolling development will be remunerated, and based on Based on the number of people developed, they will directly or indirectly develop into their own downlines on a rolling basis.
3. Remuneration method
Whether remuneration is calculated based on the sales performance of direct or indirect development personnel to seek illegal benefits.
If it meets the above characteristics, it may be suspected of pyramid schemes.
Extended information:
Case:
Carry out pyramid selling activities under the guise of selling black tea, and claim that its company has national support projects, and there will be high profits after investment The rebates attracted many people to invest in black tea and develop offline. Sun and Jiang, the sons of the two women, were prosecuted for organizing and leading pyramid schemes. Recently, the Fangshan Court heard the case.
The public prosecution agency stated that from August 2014 to March 2016, a tea company in Hunan established an online service platform to conduct pyramid schemes.
Since September 2014, the defendants Sun and Jiang were introduced as members of a tea company in Hunan and carried out pyramid selling activities in their respective dark tea stores. In the store, the two claimed that a tea company in Hunan was a state-supported project, and used high rebates as bait to attract the victim to invest in dark tea and develop it offline.
The public prosecution authority believes that Sun and Jiang directly or indirectly developed downline personnel, and their levels exceeded three levels. Sun received a kickback bonus of more than 1.76 million yuan, which was the membership level of the tea company. Honorary Director". Jiang received a rebate bonus of more than 950,000 yuan, and his membership level in the tea company is "provincial agent".
The public prosecution agency believes that the two defendants should be held criminally responsible for organizing and leading pyramid schemes.
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