Amway propaganda reminiscent of Soviet, Nazi regimes

Shyam

Any free-thinking individual looking at 'Amway' propaganda as a whole (but with unrestricted access to grim reality behind this attractive bullshit) can only conclude that the organization is peddling an effectively-unattainable, future Utopia. Indeed, many of 'Amway's' pretty propaganda images are frighteningly-reminiscent of those used by the 'Soviet' and 'Nazi' regimes - happy, healthy and prosperous hetrosexual couples whose unquestioning, heroic example must be exactly duplicated in order to achieve the Promised Land.

Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany were presented to the world as a Workers' Paradise where, by means of collective-effort and total obedience, sickness, starvation, unemployment, poverty, etc., had all been vanquished. The 'Amway' mob simply adapted this comic-book controlling scenario to fit the spirit of post-War America. The obedient, socialist worker-hero was transformed into the obedient, capitalist businessman-hero.

In all abusive, totalitarian systems, the system can never fail: only individuals fail the sytem - for the needs of the selfish individual are subordinate to those of the selfless group.

Self-evidently, this is a lie designed crush dissent by loading the victims of totalitarian regimes with guilt.

David Brear (copyright 2010)

Amway induces to become IBOs with huge profits

A casual glance at Amway India web site reveals more than one wanted. It opens with 'Amway we're listening' slogan. It claims many things but the catchy points are 'This is where reams turn into reality' and 'Live the Amway opportunity'. The 'advertisement' prominently displays that 'The Amway sales and marketing plan gets even better'. Better for whom? That is the question one has to ponder.

The 'ad' also claims that the new plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It also claims that it provides a flexible opportunity to build your business through retailing of products and building a network of other people who are engaged in the same activities.

The 'ad' also illustrates how Amway's sales and marketing plan works. In the example one the IBO has to purchase products worth unspecified amount and the IBO has also presumably two or three friends who are 'interested' in buying products, then the IBO would earn Rs. 3,900 per month. But the 'ad ' did not disclose how much the IBO has to invest to purchase products. The 'ad' also claims that it is easier to find more than two or three customers which would boost the IBO's earnings. What it won't say is that it is nearly impossible to find even one customer. This is the actual experience of many IBOs who joined enthusiastically.

Let us move on to the next example. If the IBO sponsored four persons as IBOs the earnings of the IBO would be Rs. 6,150. Once again the 'ad' would not disclose who much money is needed to invest to earn Rs. 6,150 per month.

In the third example, the IBO has sponsored four other persons and and all the four have sponsored other persons (unspecified number) as their downline IBOs, and it is presumed everyone is buying the same amount of products every month, then the first IBO's earnings would be a whopping 56,500 per month.

What the 'ad' won't tell is what is the entry fee to become IBO and what is the price of starter kit if there is one.

Earning Rs. 56,500 is really a great inducement to become IBO and after joining only the person realizes that it is impossible to sell the products, let alone sponsor downline members. This is what is described by the Supreme Court of India as 'mathematical impossibility' in Kuriachan Chacko case. It also stated in the same case that it must be evident for any discerning mind that this scheme cannot work unless more and more subscribers join. The promoters very well knew that it is certain that the scheme was impracticable and unworkable making tall promises which the makers of the promises knew full well that it could not work successfully. It could work for some time in that "Paul can be robbed to pay Peter" but ultimately when there is a large mass of Peters, they will be left in the lurch without any remedy as they would by then have been deceived and deprived of their money. If it is so, it could be said to be a case for application of Section 420 (cheating) read with 34 (joint liability) of IPC of course at this stage.

TVI Express is a perfect con

A reader writes about the TVI Express which has been cheating a sizable number of people all over India.:

The truth about MLM is there for all to see.
And TVI Express seems to be one of the "cutest" one i've ever come across.
The truth is that "the product" doesn't need to exist.
"The suckers" or the people who are lured into it are the product.
It's a classic pyramid but more clever is that they know that 99% of people will never go on with it and will give up in the 1st year but in the meantime they suck as much money out of these people : It starts with the "entry fee" ; then it's books, tapes, CDs, trips to motivational weekends...and so on.....
When these people drop out - they don't ask for their money back - of course not - instead they feel like "losers" for not having taken advantage of "this opportunity of a lifetime".
The perfect con.

Again, the same problem persists. No one complains. It is high time people came out openly and lodged complaints against these crooks.

The UK Companies Act is a license to steal

Shyam

You are very fortunate that senior Indian police officers are prepared to accept criminal complaints about so-called 'MLM' companies defrauding Indian citizens.

As you know, despite determined and well-informed complaints, no criminal enquiry has ever been launched into the 'Amway / MLM' racket in the UK. Indeed, approaching the UK Fraud Squad or Serious Fraud Office with a complaint about 'Amway UK' has been as pointless as approaching these same law enforcement agencies with a complaint about a major cigarette manufacturing company. Remember, the UK SFO accepts that fraud is a multi-billion pound annual problem in the UK, but last year this (300+ employee) agency managed to recover far less than its own (£40+ millions) costs from successful court actions.

As you also know, the only UK law enforcement agency which was finally-prepared to accept a complaint about 'Amway UK' was the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry, Companies Investigation Branch. This agency (which recently became the UK Ministry for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Companies Investigation Branch) has successfully closed various so-called 'MLM' companies in the past, by filing public interest bankruptcy petitions after uncovering systematic breaches of UK trading schemes and lotteries legislation. In brief, if it can be proved that a UK-registered, so-called 'MLM' company has derived profits from an illegal money circulation scheme, then that company can be ordered to repay all its ill-gotten gains and (by legal precedant) be automatically bankrupted, and closed, as being technically-insolvent (i.e. its assets cannot cover its significant new liabilities). In theory, only after a company is closed, would it be possible for a criminal fraud enquiry to be launched in the UK, but, in practise, this rarely happens.

In this way, the UK government halted the activities of an 'Amway' copy-cat, Mr. Alan Kippax (who was using the absurd 'Treasure Traders International Ltd.' as a corporate front). Typically, Kippax had made sure that his fake company had no capital assets to seize in the UK and, even though this front for fraud was technically-bankrupted and closed, its owner was allowed to abscond back to Canada with bundles of stolen cash. Unlike the billionaire bosses of the 'Amway' mob, Kippax had no reason to try to sustain his fake company in the UK. However, when their wide-eyed agents were caught running an illegal money circulation scheme in the UK (and BERR tried to close their UK corporate front as being systematically in breach of UK trading schemes and lotteries legislation), the 'Amway' mob hired Eversheds LLP (for a fee believed to exceed £1 million) to try to block the BERR bankruptcy petition. Obviously, this tactic was designed to prevent a criminal enquiry and, thus, obstruct justice. At this time, Eversheds LLP counted a former Deputy Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office, Peter Kiernan, amongst its staff, but even he was unable to convince the UK government to accept his employer's assurances that 'Amway UK Ltd.' would stop breaking the law. Instead, UK government lawyers proceeded with the petition in the High Court. However, the 'Amway' mob managed to avoid the loss of their UK front by effectively closing it down themselves and by promising a High Court judge that, in future, the activities of 'Amway UK Ltd.' would strictly comply with UK law.

During the UK court proceedings it was revealed that:

- 99% of 'Amway's' non-salaried commission agents had been losing money in the UK

- 93 % of 'Amway's non-salaried commission agents freely-accepted that they never tried to sell any products

- 'Amway UK Ltd.' had never declared an annual trading profit since its creation in 1973

- For several years 'Amway UK Ltd.'s' multi-million pound annual trading losses had been secretly plugged by dividends from shares held by 'Amway Europe' in 'Amway S. Korea'.

- an unspecified quantity of cash (believed to total hundreds of millions of pounds) had been generated by various other corporate structures which had peddled the participants in 'Amway's' scheme publications, recordings, tickets to meetings, etc., all of which promoted the guided- dream that anyone could achieve 'Total Financial Freedom' in 'Amway'

Officially, civil servants in BERR were obliged to take the blinkered view that since 'Amway UK' has always been a legally-registered corporate structure, then this privately-owned, limited-liability, commercial-company had the right to be treated like any other such entity. Consequently, the recent investigation of 'Amway UK's' activities by BERR accountants and lawyers was severly-restricted as it fell under the provisions of the UK Companies Act. However, privately, senior civil servants in BERR freely-accepted that 'Amway UK' has been the front for a series of foreign-based swindles and that the long-term victims of these swindles have been brainwashed dupes. Sadly, the UK Companies Act precludes UK trade officials from making any public statement regarding any legally-registered UK company and, legalistically, brainwashing does not exist in the UK.

David Brear (copyright 2010)

Mention about this Memorandum while filing a criminal case

This is the Memorandum issued by the Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh to all the police stations in the State.

Office of the

Director General of Police

Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad

Dated: 02-01-2009

RC.No. 6218/Compts-2008

MEMORANDUM

Sub:- Non-registration of information of cognizable offence of Money Circulation Schemes by the police officers - Request to issue orders to all SHOs in the State to register the FIRs on the information of Money Circulation Schemes- Regarding.

Ref: Govt Memo No. 6344/P.S./Genl.B/A2/08-1, Home (Genl.B) Department Dated 18-12-2008 On Representation of Sri M V Syama Sundar for Corporate Frauds Watch, Vijayawada City Dt. 08-11-08

******

A copy of the reference cited along with enclosures is sent herewith for taking necessary action in the matter.

Encl: As above

Sd/ S V Ramana Murthy, I.P.S.

For Director General of Police

To

All Commissioners of Police

All Superintendents of Police

My dear fellow citizens of Andhra Pradesh you can now approach the police anywhere in the State and file a criminal case against these crooks. Kindly make a reference of this Memorandum if the police refuse to take the complaint.

Shyam Sundar,

secretary, Corporate Frauds Watch.

Few adults can admit they were duped and used to dupe others

Shyam

In recent years, it has become a matter of public record that, as a result of unprotected exposure to one of an ever-growing and evolving catalogue of apparently diverse and innocent groups, almost anyone can begin to exhibit remarkably uniform symptoms. In everyday terms, it is as though they’ve fallen head over heels in love. Although this initial euphoria is often short-lived, a significant minority will subsequently undergo a nightmarish transformation and recklessly dissipate all their mental, and/ or physical, and/ or financial, resources to the benefit of some hitherto unknown person(s), whom they continue to trust and follow no matter what suffering this entails. Only when enough victims of one of these latter-day ‘Pied-Pipers’ have wound up in psychiatric hospitals or on mortuary slabs has the word, ‘cult,’ been liberally applied by the popular press. It has then always been revealed that there had been some timely attempt(s) to warn the authorities, but they couldn’t intervene, because, legalistically, cultism does not exist.

If only more cult victims would complain: then perhaps governments would have to make the problem a priority. Unfortunately, few adults can admit that they were duped and used to dupe others; for it is human nature for us to try to justify our previous behaviour. History proves that the leaders of pernicious cults have profited-massively whilst most of their victims have continued to deny reality in defence of their self-esteem. Cult leaders have sought to maintain an absolute monopoly of information whilst perpetrating, and/or directing, evermore heinous crimes. Indeed, various megalomaniacal psychopaths (i.e. persons suffering from a chronic mental disorder, especially when resulting in paranoid delusions of grandeur and self-righteousness, and the compulsion to pursue grandiose objectives) have been allowed to sustain their abusive activities by the imposition of arbitrary codes (secrecy, denunciation, confession, justice, punishment, etc.) within their groups and by the use of humiliation, and/or intimidation, and/or malicious prosecution (where they pose asvictims), and/or sophism, and/or infiltration of traditional culture, and/or corrruption, and/or intelligence gathering and blackmail, and/or extortion, and/or physical isolation, and/or violence, and/or assassination, etc., to repress any internal or external dissent.

Although the subject of numerous isolated criminal investigations and successful prosecutions, two of the largest latter-day crimonogenic cults, 'Scientology' and'Amway,' have survived, because relatively few of their minority of core-victims have managed to complain. However, the long-term core-adherents of pernicious cults are psychotic (i.e. suffering from psychosis, a severe mental derangement, especially when resulting in delusions and loss of contact with external reality). Core-adherents who manage to break with their group and confront the ego-destroying reality that they’ve been systematically deceived and exploited, are invariably destitute and dissociated from all their previous social contacts. For many years afterwards, recovering former core-adherents can suffer from one, or more, of the following psychological problems (which are also generally indicative of the victims of abuse): depression; overwhelming feelings (guilt, grief, shame, fear, anger, embarrassment, etc.); dependency/ inability to make decisions; retarded psychological/ intellectual development; suicidal thoughts; panic/anxiety attacks; extreme identity confusion; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; insomnia/nightmares; eating disorders; psychosomatic illness (asthma, skin disorders, headaches, fatigue, etc.); sexual problems/ fear of forming intimate relationships; inability to trust; etc.

David Brear (copyright 2010)

Break the Silence; Realise you are not to be blamed

Break the silence, my dear fellow humans all over world. Whenever you lose in any multilevel marketing scam, do not remain silent blaming yourself for the failure. The scheme itself to be blamed. Realise the truth. It is the fraudulent companies which have been inducing people like you to become members and blaming you for your failure. Actually you did not fail. It is inherent in the scheme and if you could not make it that means that your conscience does not agree to cheat others.

It is high time, the victims realised the truth and come out openly. It is high time the victims filed criminal cases against those cheats who succeeded in cheating you. It is not your fault to fall prey to the greedy talk of these cheats. It is smooth talk of these tricksters that tricked you into the scam.

The cheap technique adapted by all these crooks is to make the victims feel that they are incompetent to achieve the goal. They always blame the victim stating that there is not sufficient 'fire' in him and he is needed to be motivated. Then they sell the motivation tools like cassettes, books etc. and make money out of it. They even tell you to lie about your income by making it an inflated figure. A woman living in a two-room asbestos rented shack told me that their income is about Rs. 65,000 per month. A professor's wife in Vijayawada boasted in a chat with an auto rickshaw driver that their income as an IBO is Rs. 70,000 per month which resulted in her murder.

My dear fellow Indians. Do not feel shy to confess that you were cheated. It is high time, you strike back and launch criminal proceedings against these crooks. You need not worry that you are introduced by your own friend or relative. Just file a criminal case against the company. You need not strain your relations with your friend or relative. Anyway you do not trust him in future for involving you in a scam like this.

Your job would be easier if you are living in Andhra Pradesh. Following a representation by the Corporate Frauds Watch the office of the Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh issued a Memo to all the police stations in the State to register criminal cases whenever the police are approached with a complaint against money circulation schemes. The Memo is now in each and every police station in the State of Andhra Pradesh. The Memo also mentioned the name of the Corporate Frauds Watch in it prominently.

So now you only have to approach the police station concerned and lodge a complaint with them. You would be given a copy of First Information Report.

Amway India, Tupperware, Herbalife, Forever Living Products, Hindustan Unilever Network Ltd, Pearls or PACL, Agrigold, Oriflame are some of the companies which are indulging in money circulation scheme in the guise of selling products.