{"id":16339,"date":"2008-12-15T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=16339"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:43:10","slug":"avoiding-business-opportunity-scams-and-multi-level-marketing-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/avoiding-business-opportunity-scams-and-multi-level-marketing-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Business Opportunity Scams and Multi-Level Marketing Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/15838483\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27107%27%20height%3D%2774%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20107%2074%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27107%27%20height%3D%2774%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/images\/logos\/cnbc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"74\" \/>CNBC\u2019s \u201cOn the Money\u201d<\/a> wants consumers to know how to protect themselves from  mainstream business opportunity scams and multi-level marketing schemes that could cost the average consumer hundreds or thousands of dollars.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[jwplayer file=&#8221;http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/videos\/onthemoney121508b.flv&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/images\/videos\/otmbizop.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC\u2019s \u201cOn the Money\u201d wants consumers to know how to protect themselves from mainstream business opportunity scams and multi-level marketing schemes that could cost the average consumer hundreds or thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[824,184,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}