Re: Have I discovered a pyramid scheme? What should I do?
This is a complete waste of your time, most likely, and I wouldn't get involved.
As for your legality question...
Multi-Level Marketing, or pyramid schemes, are not inherently illegal, and most that are operating illegally get away with it. I can't remember the percentage point, but what determines whether they are operation legally is how much of their revenue (as a percentage of total revenue) comes from its "sellers." Alot of old-school MLM's required you to buy a bunch of stuff to get involved and "be on you way to millions!" As it turned out, that was pretty much the only way they made their money. They didn't care if the product got to the "consumer" as long as people kept buying it with the hopes selling it and getting rich. Does this apply to your deal? I don't know.
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