Book about MLMs and pyramid schemes?

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Book about MLMs and pyramid schemes?

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Can anyone recommend a book about the psychology, economics, history, and/or mechanics of MLMs and Ponzis?
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Re: Book about MLMs and pyramid schemes?

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Contact Robert Fitzpatrick at Pyramid Scheme Alert website. If I am not mistaken he has written a book about your topics, as MLM is all he does.
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Re: Book about MLMs and pyramid schemes?

Post by rayandsouza »

MLM is Fraud schemes... if each one is supposed to recruit five more fools and those, in turn, recruit five each, etc., to make money, then after 13 generations the scheme exceeds the Earth's population.
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