Mission Statement
In recent decades, pyramid schemes have become an insidious, pervasive and corrupting influence in the marketplace and community, causing financial and social harm on a global scale.
Since 1980 a new form of sales and marketing, called multi-level marketing or network marketing, has spread worldwide and spawned an explosion of pyramid sales schemes involving tens of millions of consumers. The line between legal forms of network marketing and fraudulent pyramid programs is a point of Read More…
Enough Is Enough. It’s Time for Action!
No more denial, shame or embarrassment. No more confusion. No more blaming the victim. No more resignation. And absolutely no more fear.
Pyramid Scheme Alert is the first consumer organization to confront the abuses and trickery of pyramid scheme perpetrators.
Pyramid Scheme Alert is a non-profit, privately supported (by memberships and donations), all-volunteer,
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Resources
Despite the volume of lies and hype flowing from multi-level marketing schemers there is more valid, research-based and whistle-blower information available today than ever before. The truth is emerging.
As in the cases of Enron, the lethal cigarette industry, bank and mortgage frauds and the Madoff ponzi scheme, the truth about multi-level marketing is taking time to emerge but the truth inevitably prevails. As the Links offered here show, the number of activists is growing. Major Read More…
Consumer Report Now Available:
What is this Thing called Multi-Level Marketing?
This new article by Robert L. FitzPatrick is an economic “portrait” of multi-level marketing (MLM) in the USA. The report has compiled and analyzed the data on three of the oldest and largest MLM companies, Amway, Herbalife and Nu Skin in a readable and understandable way to paint a recognizable picture. Together, these three constitute 10% of the entire MLM operations in America and serve as representatives of all others. About 1.5 million Americans are signed up in them each year. Most quit within a year. The report shows shocking loss rates among participants and an extreme transfer of money to the 1% at the top. The study also examines the potential for “retail” sales by distributors, which turn out to be non-existent. Finally, the report examines the financial chances of success of a new recruit joining any of the three today.
If you have an interest in seeing this report, contact us.
Recent Articles
How a “Vocabulary of Fraud” Protects MLM and Disempowers Anti-MLM
Robert L. FitzPatrick, June 2026 Reflecting on my decades of work to expose multi-level marketing (MLM), there were several turning point realizations, as others have also noted in their own journeys of discovery. The first came quickly — that MLM is not at all...
Crypto and Prediction Markets — Legacy of MLM
by Robert L. FitzPatrick Remembering I am one of the few people in the world that for more than 30 years consistently examined and sought to expose the lie that is called "multi-level marketing" (MLM). I am not alone, but part of a tiny cadre of truth-tellers, nearly...
Good-bye, F.T.C.
Since the mid-1990’s when the voices of “anti-MLM” started to grow, citizens who were injured, some irreparably, by multi-level marketing (MLM) turned to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for truth, justice and protection. Still today, FTC is treated by anti-MLM...
Quiz: How Many MLMs Are There?
Many people move from one MLM to another thinking they are different, when in fact they’re all the same.
Institutional Support for Multi-Level Marketing in America Is Cracking
The consequences of media and institutional support for MLM are getting worse, and MLM’s ill-gotten money is being used for an extremist political agenda.
MLM Champion, Dr. Lasdwun N. Luzes, Condemns Labeling MLM as “Cult”
(Unverified Report) The country’s most ardent advocate for multi-level marketing, Dr. Lasdwun N. Luzes, has condemned a recently published slide presentation on YouTube by Robert FitzPatrick that identifies and defines multi-level marketing (MLM) as “the...