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Sites opposed to business opportunities (especially MLMs).

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• Skeptic's Dictionary: multi-level marketing - Encyclopedia-type article about multi-level marketing.
  
• The Mirage of Multilevel Marketing - Article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., on bogus health products.
  
• Anti-MLM and Anti-Amway Webring - Sites containing informational material regarding the MLM industry, especially Amway.
  
• What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing? - Business analysis of 4 major systemic problems with MLM: 1) Market Saturation, 2) Pyramid Structure, 3) Morality and Ethics, and 4) Relationship Costs
  
• MetroActive: Shaking the Money Tree - by Amy Chen Mills- "From Amway to Equinox, multilevel marketing schemes have won 7 million devotees on the promise of unlimited wealth and freedom. But when the numbers don't add up, distributors lose more than their dreams."
  
• An Employment Scam in the Financial Services Industry - Describes an employment scam that finance grads and those considering financial, insurance and securities sales should be aware of. What to do if you've been scammed; links to similar sites.
  
• Cagey Consumer: Multi-level marketing - Analysis and debunking of Multi-Level Marketing as an industry as well as scrutiny of a number of specific MLMs and complaints generated about them.
  
• False Profits - About the book, an exposé and analysis of the multi-level marketing (MLM) industry
  
• MLM Survivors Club - A discussion group for people who've survived MLM.
  
• PinkLightHouse.com - Ex-Mary Kay consultants offer news, stories, testimonials and forum on negative experiences with the company.
  
• FTC Sues Nationwide Internet Scam - Press release about FTC lawsuit against StreamLine business opportunity.
  
• Metabolife probe launched - Metabolife International, the leading seller of the controversial weight-loss supplement ephedra, is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.
  
• WorldWide Scam Network, The - Parodies of and information about the multi-level marketing scams, frauds, and rip-offs.
  
• Personal Experience: Mary Kay Cosmetics - Associate recounts her negative experience with the company.
  
• Pyramid Scheme Alert - Exposes, studies and aims to prevent illegal pyramid schemes. News, alerts, resources, legal information, updates and consumer information about a number of companies and MLMs operating suspected pyramid schemes.
  
• Bigsmart Pyramid Promoters Settle FTC Charges - Federal Trade Commission press release announces that Darrin Epps and Edward Lamont are barred for life from participating in multi-level marketing schemes.
  
• MLM Survivor - News, lawsuits, personal experiences, and information.
  
  

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