There are also pyramid schemes, which can look a lot like multi-level marketing, but are illegal. According to the Better Business Bureau, there are ways to spot the difference.

From May 19 to June 15, Washington Improv Theater (WIT) will present Not a Pyramid Scheme, an improvised show that satirizes the world of multi-level marketing (think essential oils and overpriced ...

You might have seen the famous pink Cadillac driven by successful Mary Kay salespeople. Or, maybe you noticed someone on your Instagram feed showing off their Herbalife swag along side images of their ...

When 23-year-old college graduate Julie was invited to a “girls night party” where the guests were told by a woman named Shawna from a company called Pure Romance that they could make big bucks ...

Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a large industry in the United States made up of independent salespeople that sell both products and the opportunity to join the business. The increasingly predatory ...

The FTC’s ruling on Koscot declared that the business of recruitment was an endless chain—a true pyramid scheme—and that selling the right to sell was illegal.

It took the core element of a direct selling/multi-level marketing company, the recruitment of sales representatives, and then claimed that core element rendered the company a pyramid scheme.

When Brina, 28, left her job in 2019, it wasn’t an easy time. Unable to work full-time due to personal and mental health challenges, her future looked uncertain. Although she’d never previously ...

Founded in 2001, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing was a Lexington, Kentucky-based company that used a multi-level marketing approach to sell consumer goods and services. However, in 2013 the Federal Trade ...

Federal authorities have issued civil and criminal charges against the orchestrators and promoters of an alleged crypto pyramid scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $2 billion.