MLM pretending to be online service providers will be placed outside the server

Build a platform on the Internet, and e-commerce combined with its "kidnapping" as a carrier ... ... City Trade and Industry Bureau, Municipal Public Security Bureau and City Consumers Association yesterday jointly issued the "vigilance MLM, boycott MLM, pyramid schemes away from the public ten tips" Remind the public to guard against the emergence of new variants of pyramid schemes.

According to the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce informed, in addition to the traditional model, combined with the network has become an important feature of MLM. Such as the establishment of MLM website, the server outside the country, to evade supervision; and e-commerce combined with "prizes spending, shopping rebates, consumer rebates, discounts" as a bait; combined with equity transactions, the use of people lack the expertise of securities to the stock Appreciation profits as bait, draw people involved. Some MLM activities simply set aside their physical products and commodities, set up virtual point pairs, coefficients, and operate on a purely capital basis in a certain amount of cash. This model has gone from "shopping rebates" to "air-to-air" financial games. The so-called "consumer rebates" have evolved into "investment rebates." A large number of phenomena such as "fake consumption and real investment" have emerged. Fake orders, as long as consumers pay a percentage of the fee, do not buy the same goods involved in rebate, seriously undermined the financial order.

Law enforcement data

5 years against the MLM dens over 2,000

Since 2007, a total of 177 pyramid sales lawsuits and 12.25 million yuan have been investigated and dealt with by the industrial and commercial authorities in the city. 3060 pyramid selling officials have been investigated and educated, 1,182 pyramid schemes have been banned, transferred to judicial authorities for 140 criminal cases and transferred to judicial organs for criminal investigation 242 people responsible. The city's public security organs investigated and dealt with 415 cases of pyramid selling, freezing more than 300 million yuan of funds involved, criminal detention of 453 criminal suspects, inventorying and educating more than 54,000 pyramid sales personnel and banning the sale of 1060 pyramid schemes.

Authoritative tips

MLM only need to identify the two characteristics

City Administration of Industry and relevant person in charge reminded, no matter how hypocrite pyramid schemes, as long as both have the following two points, you can determine the suspected MLM: First, let you pay a certain amount of money or purchase a certain number of products, products, in order to obtain accession to the Pay the entrance fee); Second, let you develop others to join, the formation of off-line hierarchy and direct or indirect development of your number of funds paid to pay or sales performance based on, you calculate the commission (pull people, Team pay).