In 'MLM business opportunity' frauds, direct association with trusted brands has been a lie

Shyam

 In a previous post, I drew your free-thinking readers' attention to some remarkable optical illusions which clearly demonstrate that the human mind can be easily deceived simply by changing the context in which we see things http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11553099 . A stalking-panther, when photographed in a jungle environment, is almost invisible to the human eye if shown only in black and white, but the same dangerous predator is immediately obvious to us when shown in colour. Two squares of identical colour and shade, appear to be of completely different colour and shade when each one is surrounded by squares which alter the context in which our minds automatically see them. 

No one now seriously disputes that deluded, core-'MLM' adherents look at 'MLM business opportunity' frauds only in two dimensions, 'positive' and 'negative.'  A growing mountain of quantifiable evidence proves that vast numbers of ill-informed people have been deceived into entering this style of camouflaged totalitarian cult, then, on the pretext that 'the duplication of a step-by-step positive plan will lead to success,' they have been intellectually-castrated (without their fully-informed consent) so that  their minds will only accept what their leaders have arbitrarily defined as 'positive,' and to exclude what these same charlatans have arbitrarily defined as 'negative.'  When seen only in the fake 'positive' context of: 'Business', 'Independence', 'Financial Freedom' , 'Direct Selling', 'Low Risk' , 'Income Opportunity', etc. 'MLM business opportunity' frauds can appear to be authentic. This dangerous inversion of reality has been further confirmed by (apparently independent) : celebrity endorcements, glossy-advertizing, 'Direct Selling Associations' , etc.; all of which form a pattern of ongoing, major, racketeering activity, because all these artificially-created, fake 'positive' contexts have actually been financed by the profits of fraud in order to continue to perpetrate the same fraud. It is only when you take 'MLM business opportunity' frauds out of their artificially-created, fake 'positive' contexts, that their true, predatory nature becomes immediately obvious. 

One of the most-deceptive, fake 'positive' contexts in which 'MLM business opportunity' frauds have been presented, is there apparent direct association with trusted brands. Currently, in the USA, the millionaire racketeers behind the  'Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing'  lie are being challenged in court for having pretended direct association with some of America's most famous companies:including: General Electric, DuPont, Time, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Travelocity, Peter Lamas and BSP Rewards Mall. For, according to documents presented in court, none of these companies has ever had a direct association with 'FHTM.' Furthermore, the officers of all these companies were actually unaware that their valuable brand-names and trademarks were being used by racketeers to commit fraud. The only connection that the 'FHTM' fake has had with all these authentic companies, is that 'FHTM'  has been a corporate customer of their products and services. Yet again, the use of this devious technique of psychological persuasion, has been copied from the original 'MLM business opportunity' fraud, 'Amway.' 

According to an 'FHTM' whistleblower, Joseph Isaacs, 'When these companies find out that their trademarks, names, logos and reputations are being used by FHTM in order to aide FHTM in proving its legitimacy they will issue a cease and desist order, insist on the actions to stop or not allow FHTM to market their products'.  Indeed, currently every one of the companies listed above has either issued a cease and desist order against 'FHTM,' or no longer allows itself to be aligned with 'Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing.'

Again, according to Joseph Isaacs, 'FHTM leaders would systematically tell prospects during presentations that FHTM must be legal, because no iconic Fortune 100 company would affiliate with a scam' and that 'all of these major companies had sent their CEOs and legal teams to meet with FHTM founder, Paul Orberson, to evaluate his MLM company.' Self-evidently these scripted- lies were part of an overall pattern of ongoing, major, racketeering activity.

David Brear (copyright 2011)