Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid Schemes, Scams and Frauds

The illustration is "There they go plucked" - Plate 20 from Los Caprichos, Goya 1799

Get rich quick, just forget about things like mathematics, the population of the world, and how many friends you would like to still have at the end of the year. A pyramid scheme is a pyramid scheme, even if black-letter law pretends it is not.

Pyramid schemes aren't the only way fraudsters try to empty wallets. The sites listed here include many methods of making you poorer.

See some answers to MLM scams here

Articles relevant to pyramid schemes and frauds:

• Advertisements
• Creating Distrust with Multi-level Marketing
• Doing the sums with MLM
• MLM adventures
• Multi-level Marketing Doesn't Add Up
• Multi-Level Marketing spam collection
• The Multi-Level Mirage
• The Ratbags Dream
• Thoughts about multi-level marketing

Some articles by other people.

• Mannatech Using Disputed Study to Boost Sales of Its Products (David Evans)
• Report of G Robert Blakey - Amway (G Robert Blakey)

books relevant to pyramid schemes and frauds.

• 200% Of Nothing : An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy by A. K. Dewdney
• Amway Motivational Organizations : Behind the Smoke and Mirrors by Ruth Carter
• Complete Idiot's Guide to Frauds, Scams and Cons by Duane Swierczynski
• False Profits : Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes by Robert L. FitzPatrick and Joyce K. Reynolds
• How to Think about Weird Things : Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn
• Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer

Books with reviews:

• Masters of Deception by Eric Scheibeler

Books relating to other categories can be found here.

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