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posted by mrpg on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the 好笑 dept.

It's only appropriate that the country with the $40 trillion ponzi financial system and where a broke pig farming company paid its creditors in bacon, only to run out of pigs, has created a pyramid scheme that involves literal pyramids.

Authorities in China’s capital are investigating two companies selling "energy pyramid" products using such illegal practices as fake advertising and multilevel marketing, The Beijing News reported Monday.

According to the outlet, police in Beijing’s Fengtai District launched an investigation with the national-level State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Monday to look into the products’ manufacturer, Weihai Ruihong Energy Technology Co. Ltd., and distributor, Beijing Hongzheng Technology Co. Ltd.

The companies allegedly advertised their pyramid-shaped wares — priced between 5,000 and 100,000 yuan ($740 and $14,900) — as having “healing” and “energy-absorbing” properties, and like any other pyramid scheme, attempted to recruit salespeople into a multilevel marketing operation.

Only In China: A Pyramid Scheme Involving Actual Pyramids


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @01:41PM (#829362)

    Saw this on the net: "The US is now under control of the White Hats, and though he will have to be incarcerated to protect him from the Klinton Klan, Assange will be treated with kid gloves. The goal is to get him in front of a judge where he will swear UNDER OATH that the source of the DNC leaks was Seth Rich, not some Russian twaddle. The resulting shock waves about his murder, which MSM will not be able to stifle, will crack the foundation of the Deep State and send them scurrying in all directions. They will not recover."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @07:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @07:54PM (#829468)

    You think the Klinton Klan don't have the resources to have him rubbed out in prison?