Help people who like to earn more than ten thousand yuan a month! ""sitting at home can also make money! "When you see these slogans, do you have the impulse to click on the link to see the details, so as to realize your dream of' lying down and winning'? Attention! These are probably the traps of online pyramid schemes.
The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Bureau that in recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, various platforms and social software based on the Internet have become the hardest hit areas for cyber crimes such as online pyramid schemes. Compared with the traditional criminal mode, online pyramid selling is often more extensive, more hidden and more deceptive.
"internet plus" broke the time and space limitation of pyramid selling.
In the name of project investment, recruit members to buy virtual goods to pay entry fees and develop offline members. 1.9 million members * * * 72 pyramids, involving more than 980 million yuan. Recently, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau announced the MLM case of Shenzhen Kaiyuan Shi Sheng Industrial Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Kaiyuan Company).
Kaiyuan Company has set up an Internet financial platform since June 2065438+2007, and recruited members in the name of project investment, requiring the developed members to pay the membership fee by purchasing the virtual goods "Kaiyuan Voucher" in order to obtain the registered account of the platform and develop other memberships. New members can only be recommended and registered by online (old) members, and there is no hierarchical restriction on the development of offline members.
Lu Ying, a staff member of the Anti-Unfair Competition Department of the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (regulating direct selling and cracking down on MLM), told reporters that the Kaiyuan company case is a typical online pyramid scheme.
With the application and development of Internet technology, MLM organizations have introduced the original tangible MLM activities into the development space of the Internet without geographical restrictions with the help of various network platforms, forming a model of "Internet plus MLM", also known as network MLM.
Relying on the Internet, network marketing can attract MLM personnel from all over the country in a short time and absorb huge marketing funds, which makes network marketing develop faster, spread more widely, absorb more funds and suffer more victims. Network marketing has broken through the limitation of time and space, the speed of tissue fission and reproduction has been accelerated, and the number of participants has increased geometrically, covering a wider range. It is easy to cause sudden and mass incidents, causing adverse effects and posing a threat to social stability.
Network weaving MLM "flower coat"
Network marketing designs the offline marketing system as a management system, hides it in the Internet, collects marketing activities from all over the country, and develops offline, declaration and settlement, rewards and rebates on the Internet to achieve efficient development. Compared with traditional pyramid selling, online pyramid selling is like a "wolf in sheep's clothing", disguising itself with a "fancy coat".
Lu Ying introduced that at present, the common forms of online pyramid selling include online shopping, online investment, online entrepreneurship, online games, online charity, online education, online travel and WeChat business.
Online shopping and pyramid schemes usually appear with some fashionable and novel concepts, such as e-commerce, online group buying, online marketing and online direct purchase.
Internet investment pyramid schemes are usually under the banner of capital operation, private equity, private equity fund, equity investment, investment and wealth management, money games, virtual economy and network funds. There are also online entrepreneurial pyramid schemes, which deceive people with the bait of "starting a business at home", "starting an online business", "working part-time online", "joining online" and "making money by clicking advertisements".
The skills of MLM are always the same.
Lu Ying said that although it is covered with the shell of the Internet, it is consistent. There is no difference between online pyramid selling and traditional pyramid selling in essence, but it mainly uses online banking and online payment to collect admission fees or membership fees, directly or indirectly tricking people into becoming their own downline and making profits from it.
"MLM organizations without actual profit-making projects, no matter what kind of cloak they wear, can only rely on the' entry fee' brought by their subordinates to collect money." Lu Ying stressed, "The MLM Prohibition Ordinance lists three main forms of pyramid schemes, such as soliciting customers' heads, defrauding entry fees and multi-level rewards. These three characteristics are also applicable to network marketing. As long as citizens discover the above characteristics, there is no doubt that it is pyramid schemes. "
No matter what name or flag the MLM organization uses, its deception and fraud will not change. To put it simply, if an organization or individual asks you to go offline in life and promises to give you some money and other material benefits, you must think calmly, and if necessary, you can consult the market supervision organs and public security organs to avoid falling into the wrong path of pyramid schemes, thus causing harm to yourself, your family and society.