AHMEDABAD: Bapunagar police made the third arrest in the multi-level marketing scam where four brothers and their relatives duped people of over Rs 20 crore. According to city police, Alpesh Vasoya, one of the brothers, was arrested from CTM crossroads on Monday afternoon. “He had come from Vadodara in a bus and was looking for a […]
Man held for Rs 100 cr fraud in Delhi
JAIPUR: A man accused of duping people of nearly Rs 100 crore through his multi-level marketing company was arrested by the Jalupura police on Friday. On the basis of mobile surveillance, a team nabbed him in New Delhi. According to deputy commissioner of police (north) Ashok Naruka, the accused Jitendra Saithwal is a resident of New […]
Is it possible to grow 1 Lakh into 5 Lakh in 12 months?
Published: Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011, 15:25 IST By Himansh Dhomse | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA Remember the 2008 US recession that left the world in an unprecedented financial crisis? At the root of it were several Ponzi schemes that eventually went phut and plagued the US economy impacting global economy.It seems that even Ahmedabad […]
Promising windfall, delivering MLM Scams
New Delhi: Hundreds of depositors have been lured with promise of windfall profits that vanish into thin air.Watch out for multi-level marketing schemes luring investors with unusually high returns as it might just be just a ploy to launder money. As per a government report, use of bank accounts by multi-level marketi ng (MLM) companies […]
Multi-level marketing schemes illegal: High Court-The Hindu Newspaper
Tamil Nadu – Chennai Multi-level marketing schemes illegal: High Court By Our Staff Reporter CHENNAI, JAN. 25, 2005. The Madras High Court has ruled that the multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, by whatever attractive name it is called, is illegal, and that the Director-General of Police and other law enforcing authorities must have “a watchful eye […]
Beware of these MLM companies
Hemant Kumar Rout, TNN 5 August 2009, 10:47pm IST| BALASORE: The state Crime Branch on Wednesday claimed to have busted a multi-crore scam involving fake marketing companies and chit funds. Police said they have frozen bank accounts worth Rs 107 crore and arrested one person in this connection.SP (Crime Branch) Santosh Bala said sleuths from the […]
RBI flashes red signal at MLM companies
RBI Website Mumbai: The operations of shady multi-level marketing (MLM) companies — which operate what are popularly known as pyramid or ponzi schemes — have come under the regulatory scanner with shady MLM companies mushrooming across the country and duping investors. Many firms posing as MLM agencies for consumer goods and services have been actually […]