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.
Anti-MLM and Anti-Amway Webring: Sites containing informational material regarding the MLM industry, especially Amway.
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.
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
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.
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."
MLM Survivor: News, lawsuits, personal experiences, and information.
MLM Survivors Club: A discussion group for people who've survived MLM.
Multilevel Marketing Plans: Tips from the Federal Trade Commission regarding MLMs.
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. Site includes news, alerts, resources, legal information, updates and consumer information about a number of companies and MLMs operating suspected pyramid schemes.
Skeptic's Dictionary: multi-level marketing: Encyclopedia-type article about multi-level marketing.
The God of the Bible versus the god of Multi-Level Marketing: Christian site calling the teachings of Amway Motivational Organizations "a Satanic distortion of Biblical truth."
The Hype of It: True story of a PartyLite Gifts consultant's trek to the top followed by the use of the 10 day clause by the company to terminate her contract.
The Mirage of Multilevel Marketing: Article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., on bogus health products.
The Truth About Marketing Plans: Information on evaluating network marketing plans.
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
WorldWide Scam Network, The: Parodies of and information about the multi-level marketing scams, frauds, and rip-offs.