How to Avoid MLM Scams

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How do you distinguish between a legal MLM and a Scam? What are Pyramid schemes? How do you protect your hard-earned savings from going down the toilet?

How can you find out which companies are ethical in their marketing? Is your company above board in their marketing practices?

Before you decide on a company and part with your precious money, read the information here.

Facts about MLM Everyone Should Know

MUST-READ
Twelve Tests for Evaluating a Network Marketing (MLM) Opportunity
By Jon M. Taylor, Ph.D., Consumer Awareness Institute

The Pyramid-Scheme-Alert (PSA) organization
Do your own evaluation of any MLM program or suspected pyramid scheme by going through the steps suggested by Dr. Jon Taylor, a founder of the PSA, which was developed from six years of rigorous analysis and research to help identify which programs do the greatest harm and why.

Pyramid Selling and Multi-Level marketing Schemes - Industry Canada
The Act explains the differences between multi-level marketing and a pyramid selling scheme. Multi-level marketing, if it operates within the limits set by the Competition Act, is a legal business activity, while a pyramid selling scheme is illegal as defined by the law.

Report on Product-based Pyramid Schemes
When Should an MLM or Network Marketing Program Be Considered an Illegal Pyramid Scheme?

MLMSurvivor.com
Headlines and breaking news about Multi-Level Marketing businesses. Lawsuits, personal experiences, and information available here.

The World Wide Scam Network (WWSN)
A caustic and often funny look at the schemers, scammers and losers in MLM. Don't be a lemming. Read Bob's newsletter and visit this site regularly. It could save you a lot of heartache (and money).

MLM Watchdog
#1 Source for HONEST Information on MLM. We Defend NetWork Marketing Free Enterprise. We Attack Pyramids and Abusive Companies

MLM Watch
Quackwatch's skeptical guide to multilevel marketing.

MLM Boobytraps! by John Counsel.
Any method or scheme which claims to eliminate the need for time, effort or discipline, or which puts personal relationships at risk, or encourages you to invest money, is almost certainly a boobytrap.

The MLMTruth Newsletter
MLMTruth, in partnership with the MLMTruth Coalition, exposes fraud, scams, hype and misinformation on the Internet and abroad in MLM or Network Marketing.

Quatloos! -- Multi-Level Marketing Museum
About Multi-Level Marketing scams, the latest scams and scammers and whether MLM has a legitimate place in today's economy.

What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing? by Dean Van Druff

Multilevel Mischief

The Ten Big Lies of Multi-Level Marketing by Robert L. Fitzpatrick

Four Lies about MLM by John Milton Fogg

The Mirage of Multilevel Marketing Stephen Barrett, M.D.

Recruitment Commission Schemes
A Warning From the FTC - From the FTC Site "Multilevel Marketing Plans"
If a plan offers to pay commissions for recruiting new distributors, watch out! Most states outlaw this practice, which is known as "pyramiding."

FTC Consumer Alert! The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans

FTC warnings on MLM chicanery

Consumer Protection: Can You Recognize a Business Opportunity Fraud?

Work-At-Home Schemes: How to Identify the Warning Signs by Angela Wu

Steps you can take to Protect Yourself

Global Prosperity Forum
Where law enforcement, victims, and attorneys can speak freely about the worst MLM program ever and the new companies who keep selling it, and speculate on who will be indicted next.

MLM News from MLM Help
What's going on with various MLM companies? Read about the latest developments in the MLM Help news section.

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