The following behaviors are pyramid schemes:

(1) The organizer or operator, through the development personnel, requires the development personnel to develop other personnel to join, and directly or directly Calculate and pay remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits, the same below) based on the number of personnel for indirect rolling development, and seek illegal benefits;

(2) The organizer or operator requires the development of personnel through The person being developed pays a fee or pays a fee in disguise by subscribing for goods, etc., to obtain the qualification to join or recruit other people to join, and seek illegal benefits;

(3) The organizer or operator requires the developer to Other personnel are recruited by the development personnel to form an upline and downline relationship, and the remuneration is calculated and paid to the upline based on the sales performance of the downline, thereby seeking illegal benefits.

In the "Regulations on the Prohibition of Pyramid Selling", the concept of hierarchical relationship is repeatedly mentioned. The hierarchical relationship formed by certain rules is only a phenomenon among many pyramid schemes. It must be combined with the illegal possession of other people's property to be suspected of pyramid scheme.