2065438+At the beginning of June, 2005, Yucheng Public Security Bureau received an alarm that someone was engaged in pyramid selling activities in the name of health talks and promoting "Kangyuan Jiuhua Shi Sheng ionized calcium" health care products in an office building rented by a shopping plaza.
According to the preliminary arrangement, MLM has set up an office in Yucheng area, and its four key members have grown to more than 300 people. Product knowledge introduction and health talks will be held regularly every Wednesday night and Saturday afternoon.
After more than ten days' work, on the afternoon of June 20th, after a large-scale lecture was held in the office, the police of Yucheng Public Security Bureau made a surprise inspection of the pyramid scheme den, and seized important documentary evidence such as tablet computers, escrow accounts, performance summary tables, publicity materials, payment receipts and bank cards.
Song, Zhang and other four core pyramid schemes were arrested in one fell swoop, and four people were criminally detained according to law for organizing and leading pyramid schemes. During the trial, four people truthfully confessed the criminal facts of engaging in pyramid selling activities in Yucheng under the name of selling "Kangyuan Jiuhua Shi Sheng ionized calcium" health care products, and developing more than 300 people offline.
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Advocating "health preservation" can also "make a lot of money"
It is understood that at the end of 20 13, Song Mou, Zhang Mou and others began to engage in pyramid schemes in Yucheng in the name of selling functional products of "Yuankang Jiuhua Shi Sheng ionized calcium". "If you want to become a member of the company, you need to buy" Yuankang Jiuhua Shi Sheng ionized calcium "functional product 1 copy at a price of 3,300 yuan, and actively develop offline members." Song confessed.
Among more than 300 members, the vast majority are elderly people, and the largest investment exceeds 30,000 yuan. At first, they will give free lectures in the office building and give out some gifts such as oil and noodles for free. Later, more and more people attended lectures, mostly through friends.
One of the members, Ms. Sun, said that she also spent 3,300 yuan to buy a functional product of "Yuankang Jiuhua ionized calcium" for her own consumption, and the children had a big fight with her. Ms. Sun said that she has high blood pressure and heart disease and spends thousands of dollars on medicine every year. After listening to the lecture, she saw that many people bought functional products and bought them themselves.
Like Ms. Sun, among the more than 300 members, many people eat this functional product in advance and then actively develop offline, and many people have cheated their friends for many years.
The graded rebate model attracts people's attention.
It is understood that the members of the MLM organization are divided into three levels: three-level members, four-level members and offices. Customers who buy 3300 yuan products are eligible to join, and they can enjoy a 60% discount after becoming members to buy products; You can enjoy a 30% discount if you buy a product of 6600 yuan, and you can open an office if you pay 26400 yuan. The customer will hand over the money to the company headquarters through the local office in Yucheng, and the company will return part of it to the office in the form of electronic money.
According to the hierarchy, the parties can directly or indirectly get a commission of 15% from the members who are developing offline, and the number of developers and the number of hierarchies are used as the rebate basis, thus inducing participants to continue to develop other people's participation. At present, the organization has been suspected of pyramid schemes and the case is still under investigation.
Phoenix. Com-MLM organizations defrauded hundreds of elderly people by pushing "health lectures", with a case value of over 2 million.