The characteristics of northern pyramid schemes are violence. The victims were isolated from the outside world by confiscating their mobile phones, imprisoned, brainwashed, beaten and abused. Moreover, pyramid schemes in the north generally look for relatively remote villages, rented yards, abandoned workshops and broken houses. Close to farmland and mountainous areas, as far as possible hidden, not easy to locate, you can also hide in the crops at the first time when the police search.

Nanpai Saburo usually hides in a formal community or rents an office building to start classes. I can hardly control my personal freedom and mobile phone communication. I am free to come and go, and I have better food and accommodation conditions. I will go door-to-door to brainwash the family, and I will gently persuade the other party to pay attention to mental control and try to avoid violence.

MLM refers to the illegal behavior that organizers and developers calculate and pay remuneration to the developed personnel on the basis of the number or performance of the directly or indirectly developed personnel, or require the developed personnel to obtain the qualification to join on the condition of paying a certain fee. The essence of pyramid selling is "Ponzi scheme", that is, the money of the latecomers is distributed to the income of the pioneers.

New pyramid scheme: no restrictions on personal freedom, no ID cards and mobile phones, no group classes. But under the banner of capital operation, attracting people to cheat money, using luxury cars, wearing gold and silver, etc. Use money to attract your relatives and friends, and finally let you lose everything.

References:

MLM _ Baidu Encyclopedia Web page link