| An Employment Scam in the Financial Services Industry
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Describes an employment scam that finance grads and those considering financial, insurance and securities sales should be aware of. What to do if you've been scammed; links to similar sites.
 URL: http://www.armydiller.com/financial-scam/index.htm
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| Anti-MLM and Anti-Amway Webring
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Sites containing informational material regarding the MLM industry, especially Amway.
URL: http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/webhq.html
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| Bigsmart Pyramid Promoters Settle FTC Charges
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Federal Trade Commission press release announces that Darrin Epps and Edward Lamont are barred for life from participating in multi-level marketing schemes.
URL: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/08/bigsmart.htm
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| Cagey Consumer: Multi-level marketing
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Analysis and debunking of Multi-Level Marketing as an industry as well as scrutiny of a number of specific MLMs and complaints generated about them.
URL: http://cageyconsumer.com/mlminfo.html
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| False Profits
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About the book, an exposé and analysis of the multi-level marketing(MLM) industry
URL: http://www.falseprofits.com/
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| FTC Sues Nationwide Internet Scam
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Press release about FTC lawsuit against StreamLine business opportunity.
URL: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/06/streamline.htm
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| Metabolife probe launched
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Metabolife International, the leading seller of the controversial weight-loss supplement ephedra, is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.
URL: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/0...
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| MetroActive: Shaking the Money Tree
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by Amy Chen Mills- "From Amway to Equinox, multilevel marketing schemes have won 7 million devotees on the promise of unlimited wealth and freedom. But when the numbers don't add up, distributors lose more than their dreams."
URL: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.03.96/c...
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| MLM Survivor
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News, lawsuits, personal experiences, and information.
URL: http://www.mlmsurvivor.com/
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| MLM Survivors Club
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A discussion group for people who've survived MLM.
URL: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mlmsurvivors...
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| Multilevel Marketing Plans
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Tips from the Federal Trade Commission regarding MLMs.
URL: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/mlm.htm
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| Personal Experience: Mary Kay Cosmetics
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Associate recounts her negative experience with the company.
URL: http://cc.edumacation.com/mlm/marykay.html
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| Pyramid Scheme Alert
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Exposes, studies and aims to prevent illegal pyramid schemes. Site includes news, alerts, resources, legal information, updates and consumer information about a number of companies and MLMs operating suspected pyramid schemes.
URL: http://pyramidschemealert.org/
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| Skeptic's Dictionary: multi-level marketing
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Encyclopedia-type article about multi-level marketing.
URL: http://skepdic.com/mlm.html
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| The God of the Bible versus the god of Multi-Level Marketing
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Christian site calling the teachings of Amway Motivational Organizations "a Satanic distortion of Biblical truth."
URL: http://www.users.fast.net/~gospeltruth/
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| The Hype of It
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True story of a PartyLite Gifts consultant's trek to the top followed by the use of the 10 day clause by the company to terminate her contract.
URL: http://www.thehypeofit.com
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| The Mirage of Multilevel Marketing
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Article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., on bogus health products.
URL: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/...
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| The Truth About Marketing Plans
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Information on evaluating network marketing plans.
URL: http://www.home.cio.net/timo/plan/
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| What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?
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Business analysis of 4 major systemic problems with MLM: 1) Market Saturation, 2) Pyramid Structure, 3) Morality and Ethics, and 4) Relationship Costs
URL: http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
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| WorldWide Scam Network, The
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Parodies of and information about the multi-level marketing scams, frauds, and rip-offs.
URL: http://www.hawaiionline.biz
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