• Thompson Burton: Support Company of the Year from Academy of Multilevel Marketing

    Thompson Burton, a law firm providing services to multi-level marketing companies, provides our comic relief today, along with “The Academy of Multilevel Marketing” (TAMM). The Academy of Multi-Level Marketing is an organization created by MLM industry supporters to make up […]

  • Marc Randazza Free Speech Win for Dr. Steven Novella

    First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza of Las Vegas has scored a particularly important win in a case involving Steven Novella, MD and Edward Tobinick, MD. Dr. Tobinick sued Dr. Novella and Yale University in Florida, not for defamation, but for […]

  • Herbalife $HLF CEO Michael Johnson on Recruiting

    Last week a video was posted to YouTube showing Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson talking about recruiting. Herbalife had the video pulled from YouTube on the basis of copyright infringement. That is most certainly a bogus claim. I’m not an attorney, […]

  • Herbalife Report: “Pyramid Shakedown”

    This week New York State Senator Jeff Klein and Public Advocate Letitia James issued a scathing report on multi-level marketing company Herbalife (NYSE: HLF). The report, The Amercian Scheme: Herbalife’s Pyramid ‘Shake’down, is based on complaints filed by 56 Herbalife […]

  • Advocare: What You Should Know

    Written by: Advocare Facts AdvoCare is a multi-level-marketing company (MLM), founded in 1993 by Charles Ragus. Charlie once worked as a regional vice president for Fidelity Union Insurance while being a distributor for Herbalife. In 1989 Charlie co-founded Omnitrition International. […]

  • Pink Truth and Mary Kay on ABC’s 20/20

    Tune in to 20/20 on ABC on Friday October 2  for a story on the truth behind Mary Kay’s multi-level marketing “opportunity.” MLM is not a business opportunity, it’s a clever scam that has been made to look like a […]

  • Herbalife is Not Like Vemma, Unless It Is

    In light of the recent shutdown of multi-level marketing company Vemma (following allegations that it is a pyramid scheme),there has been much discussion of Herbalife. Is it a more legitimate MLM, or is it a pyramid scheme like Vemma and […]

  • MLMs as Pyramid Schemes (Vemma Shut Down)

    Multi-level marketing companies – – MLMs for short – – go to great lengths to distance themselves from pyramid schemes. The Direct Selling Association (a lobbying group funded by multi-level marketing companies that helps ensure our government continues to allow […]

  • Primerica Income Disclosures

    Primerica sells insurance and investments through a multi-level marketing structure. Some call Primerica a scam or a pyramid scheme. Primerica representatives sometimes seek out new recruits with unethical practices, such as fake job interviews. A former Primerica representative shares her […]

  • Rigging a Contest, Jennifer McKinney Style

    Remember our favorite serial scammer, MckMama?  Well, the infamous Jennifer McKinney is back and is scamming the sheeple again. (Who am I kidding? She never STOPPED scamming businesses and consumers.) We’ve talked here at length about Jennifer and Israel McKinney’s […]