{"id":22680,"date":"2026-01-08T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=22680"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:42:06","slug":"multi-level-marketing-companies-are-pyramid-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/multi-level-marketing-companies-are-pyramid-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Level Marketing Companies are Pyramid Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often hear: &#8220;Pyramid schemes are illegal! If XYZ Company was a pyramid scheme, the government would shut them down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, pyramid schemes are illegal. No, our government generally doesn&#8217;t shut down pyramid schemes masquerading as multi-level marketing.<\/p>\n<p>MLM is a type of pyramid scheme that our government allows to operated. Is it ignorance? Or is it deliberate? I don&#8217;t know, but it seems that educating consumers is the best way to fight against pyramid schemes which try to hide the nature of their activity by calling themselves &#8220;multilevel marketing&#8221; or &#8220;network marketing&#8221; or &#8220;home based businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVUUbEw_Pm8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often hear: &#8220;Pyramid schemes are illegal! If XYZ Company was a pyramid scheme, the government would shut them down!&#8221; Yes, pyramid schemes are illegal. No, our government generally doesn&#8217;t shut down pyramid schemes masquerading as multi-level marketing. MLM is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[184,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mlm-scheme-pyramid.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-5TO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680","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=22680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22684,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions\/22684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}