MLM always remained in controversy.
With genuine direct selling companies, the number of scammy MLM companies has grown parallelly or I guess more sharply.
MLM scams include Pyramid Scheme and Ponzi Scheme, which portray themselves as MLM.
MLM is legal a business model while money-circulation schemes are considered fraud.
Scam companies are one of the prime reasons behind the MLM being called scam.
Why MLM Scams Grow Faster
Here we have shared some important reasons, Why MLM Scams spread faster, and red flags to check prior to joining any MLM company.
High Commission in Short Span
Generally, it takes around 2 or 3 years to generate a decent and regular income from MLM. A person has to invest lots of time to build active downlines which purchase company products often.
But this is not the case with MLM Scams. They give instant high returns, particularly on recruitment.
With each recruitment, MLM Scam pays a huge commission to every member, hence everyone starts promoting it with full potential.
New prospects actually get impressed by the earnings of existing members of the scam company, hence they involve in it without investigating enough.
FTC guidelines suggest recruitment-driven incentives providing MLM are more likely to be a scam.
The commission is taken from members by selling extremely costly dummy products or investment packages which now most crypto-based MLM scams do.
Instant high return is the huge red flag of MLM scams until the commission is actually generated on the retail sales of legit products or services.
Lucrative Plan
It can be seen that scam companies try their best to present a lucrative MLM compensation plan, ignoring actual money flow.
They promise greater returns to high amount investors. Even possess option for reinvestment to multiply the earning.
Instead of applying simple logic and maths to compensation plans, people start believing fake income structures and end up investing the highest amount they can.
Scams offer high profit at some early easy milestones to achieve the trust of members.
Companies even add some extraordinary income pools that are impossible to achieve, still people start dreaming for these incomes and promote scams insanely.
Fake Future Claims
False claims are base of MLM scams, especially future false claims.
Scam companies try to show themselves legitimate, so they start making misleading claims.
- XYZ popular company is our partner
- We will suppress XYZ business giant in the next 5 years
- Our multimillionaire CEO has a dash year of experience
- We want to revolutionize this world
As no one knows the future, they make random glorious predictions about themselves to attach people with them.
They will promise to launch an extraordinary product or service in the future, which will remain in Coming Soon status for a lifetime.
Some luxurious international trips and gifts will be forever pending.
These fake claims are enough to lure innocent people and they try to become that wannabe achiever, hence start promoting scams at full-fledged mode.
No Product Hassle
Products of most MLM companies are either overpriced or inferior in quality. Direct sellers don’t want to involve in the product purchase and selling game.
Direct sellers are tired of storing inventory at home.
Some product-based companies have repurchase policies to maintain a level and income. Direct sellers need to spend extra to be part of an MLM.
Hence they get frustrated with products and start looking for an opportunity with no product hassle.
They find these MLM Scams, which are ideal as per the requirement.
No product to purchase, no inventory to store at home, just invest XX amount, bring few people monthly and receive a solid payout every week. (Until scam company close or collapse)
Bottom Line
It’s not always innocent people who promote MLM scams mistakenly. There is a special community exists, that knowingly promotes these scams for personal gain.
They know, this particular company is a scam and operating a fraud money circulation scheme, but they see it as an opportunity.
They want to become early investors who actually earn profit and become part of the dirty tactics of scammy companies.
These scams spread exponentially and at each successive level member size multiply. So when any scam collapse, a large population loses money and few early investors make some bucks.
Often scams stop payout a few months before exit-scam and people keep investing in them, which eventually leads to a disaster.
Scam can collapse on the next day when you invest in.