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	<title>Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog &#187; Pyramid Schemes &amp; MLM</title>
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		<title>Inline Marketing Scam: Same MLM Scam, Different MLM Name</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2012/01/inline-marketing-scam-same-mlm-scam-different-mlm-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2012/01/inline-marketing-scam-same-mlm-scam-different-mlm-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the years, multi-level marketing companies and MLM distributors have played a clever game of changing the wording to hide the truth. MLM activities have been referred to as direct sales, dual marketing, network marketing, multilevel marketing, consumer direct marketing, affiliate marketing, seller assisted marketing scams, home-based business franchising, and referral marketing. (Skeptics refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth About MLM: Almost Everyone Will Lose Money</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/12/truth-about-mlm-almost-everyone-will-lose-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/12/truth-about-mlm-almost-everyone-will-lose-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Salt Lake Tribune published a fantastic article about the reality in multi-level marketing, entitled Utah Juice Companies Offer Few Prospects. MLMs like Mary Kay, Amway, MonaVie, and Herbalife have been claiming that the great recession has increased the number of distributors because people are looking for ways to make money during this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortune Hi Tech Marketing Settlement with Texas Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/fortune-hi-tech-marketing-settlement-with-texas-attorney-general/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/11/fortune-hi-tech-marketing-settlement-with-texas-attorney-general/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Protection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written previously about Fortune Hi Tech Marketing (FHTM), a multi-level marketing company that is all about recruiting more people into your pyramid, rather than actually selling products. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing has previously been the target of legal action by the Attorney General of North Dakota, and has been a target of the North Carolina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Claims and Broken Promises in Multi-Level Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/07/false-claims-and-broken-promises-in-multi-level-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/07/false-claims-and-broken-promises-in-multi-level-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert FitzPatrick, an internationally recognized authority on multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes and a court certified expert witness on MLMs and pyramids, details the lies told in MLM in this article, A Disguised Pyramid Scheme: The Non-Retail &#8220;Direct Selling&#8221; Company: Instead, the non-retail direct selling schemes present a compelling and very alluring picture to potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News Exposé on Fortune Hi Tech Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/fox-news-expose-on-fortune-hi-tech-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/fox-news-expose-on-fortune-hi-tech-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News in Los Angeles did an exposé on multi-level marketing company Fortune Hi Tech Marketing. This video exposes the truth behind the company: operating like a pyramid scheme, dismal failure rates, false earnings representations, few making any money, broken promises, FHTM lying about its relationship with big name companies. Fox interviewed me for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethany College Teaching Students How to Scam Others</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/bethany-college-teaching-students-how-to-scam-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/bethany-college-teaching-students-how-to-scam-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 03:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it was a hoax. Surely this couldn&#8217;t be true? An actual college, offering a curriculum in &#8220;network marketing&#8221;???? You know &#8211; - network marketing &#8211; - as in multi-level marketing, as in legalized pyramid schemes. Yes, folks, it&#8217;s true. Bethany College in Kansas is going to be offering a curriculum in professional scamming! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create Your Own Multi-Level Marketing Company in Ten Easy Steps!</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/create-your-own-multi-level-marketing-company-in-ten-easy-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/create-your-own-multi-level-marketing-company-in-ten-easy-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pyramid Schemes & MLM]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of Americans get sucked into Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) companies each year. From Mary Kay to Amway to Herbalife to PrePaid Legal, the list is seemingly endless. Each offers its own special spin on the products it sells, but the main focus of an MLM is on recruiting new members. MLMs live and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating Loss and Failure Rates in Multi-Level Marketing Schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/calculating-loss-and-failure-rates-in-multi-level-marketing-schemes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/calculating-loss-and-failure-rates-in-multi-level-marketing-schemes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pyramid Schemes & MLM]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Chapter 7 of Dr. Jon Taylor&#8217;s book, The Case (For and) Against Multi-Level Marketing, he details the failure rates of participants in multi-lievel marketing companies. In order to analyze the true failure rates and to calculate actual profits or losses from participation in these (improperly termed) “business opportunities,” it is necessary to wade through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isagenix Fraud: A Follow-Up by Dr. Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/isagenix-fraud-a-follow-up-by-dr-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/isagenix-fraud-a-follow-up-by-dr-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a follow-up to her original article about whether Isagenix is a scam, Harriet Hall, M.D. prints some of the criticism she got and her responses. This article was originally published at the Skeptical Inquirer website. Defending Isagenix: A Case Study in Flawed Thinking Volume 35.1, January/February 2011 Do those who comment on blogs even [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Isagenix Scam: Questionable medical claims, no science behind them</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/isagenix-scam-questionable-medical-claims-no-science-behind-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/isagenix-scam-questionable-medical-claims-no-science-behind-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 13:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multi-level marketing company Isagenix offers a cleansing product which it claims helps people lose weight. Is this MLM scheme offering a bogus product, or is this a legitimate weight loss program? Let&#8217;s start off by clarifying that in general, multilevel marketing companies are legal scams in the United States. The government allows them to exist [...]]]></description>
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