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- From: wwolf@zooid.guild.org (White Wolf)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs,alt.business.multi-level
- Subject: Re: ILLEGAL TO OPERATE MULTI-LEVEL WITH PURE MONEY TRANSACTIONS??
- Message-ID: <711990609.8113@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:10:09 GMT
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- From: shm@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Shailendra Majmundar)
- >Is it illegal to form a pyramid system without selling a product? What I
- >mean is that a system may be formed by which the people at the bottom
- >of the pyramid would contribute x amount with an incentive to go up
- >the ladder while the money be distributed in the pyramid top down? It
- >would be similar to what Amway does, excepting that here there would be
- >no selling of products, simply PURE MONEY GAMES.
- >
- >Note that this would not be gambling or game of chance. Statistical
- >formula can tell exactly how much a guy would make if the pyramid runs
- >okey.
- >
- >Sam (shm@syl.nj.nec.com)
- >
- >PS: My thoughts and whims are mine only.
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- Very illegal in Canada.
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- Most likely illegal in the U.S. as well.
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- That's why they call them pyramid scams...
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- W.W.
- .
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