作者： 李庐年

These are the five things you should know about Ponzi schemes (aka pyramid schemes) to keep you from making a massive investment mistake, according to Magnus Heystek, Managing Director at Brenthurst Wealth Management:

1. It promises returns far above average.
2. It’s not registered and neither are the advisors.
3. It has a complex prospectus — if you don’t understand it don’t do it!
4. Advisors make their sales under pressure; offered only to “select clients”.
5. Beware of the word “guarantee”. There is a big difference between an “undertaking” and a “guarantee”.

Dear participants! We often receive your questions about creating orders while providing help.
The two questions which often arouse the interest of the participants are:

• Why don’t they receive orders for the full amount of the Provide Help request?
• When will they get an order for the remaining sum and have the request confirmed?

We have decided to clarify these issues for everyone. Here’s the answer:
Making orders not for the full amount upon the Provide Help request is normal. This  step is taken in the context of the fight against frauds.
After having paid the control payment, you will receive first the order for the partial amount only (usually around 50%). It works like the second control payment. Those who have paid it are already absolutely reliable participants of our mutual aid Community. Please note that the second control payment is only one, and there are no any subsequent payments.
Thus you provide help in three stages:

1. The first control payment (5%-10% of PH amount)
2. The second control payment (about 50% of PH amount)
3. The remaining PH amount in your PH request

As a result, the participants who previously became the cheaters’ victims via Get Help requests are being automatically matched with new senders from the list of participants, who made the second control payment, and who we are respectively confident in. Thus, people don’t encounter frauds several times in a row.

• At present, the measure is introduced by us everywhere — in all the countries. We first tested it in several states before implementing it universally. It has been working well in practice.
• Participants have no harm from this measure — only benefits. The remainder of the order comes quite quickly, therefore, the waiting period of the request confirmation is practically not extended due to this measure. Besides, the Mavro growth rate still has been growing all this time (and it is the most important! Isn’t it? :-)).

MMM develops and we are constantly improving the methods of dealing with frauds. We want to make the participation in the Community convenient and safe for everyone. Join MMM, get 30% per month, and create a fair world!
Justice, kindness and honesty are no longer a myth or fantasy in the modern world, MMM made them a reality! Together, we will change the world!!! Long live MMM and Sergey Mavrodi!!!

The MMM Africa enrolls new students for Guider’s School. Each member of the Community from any African country can apply for this school, pass the course and become a guider in MMM. Being a guider you can get a lot of opportunities: to register new members through your Personal Office, to create your own multi-level structure and to receive guider’s bonuses from all the contributions of your downliners.

It’s been three long weeks since MMM Nigeria announced its one-month shutdown that caused social media frenzy and real life commotion among participants and observers across the country.
But sanity is about to return as MMM Nigeria promises to unfreeze accounts in 10 days. The scheme is already preparing members for the almighty comeback by asking them to promote the scheme online and offline to foster the development of the MMM community.
As 14 January, the proposed return date approaches, here are 5 ways to prepare for what’s to come:
Be alert: Just because anything can happen, we advise that you ‘stay woke’. If you have frozen cash, be one of the first to ‘Get Help’. Out of panic, a lot of members will be ‘getting help’ and others will be reluctant to ‘provide help in return’. So try as much as you can to ‘get help’, cash out and watch how events turn out before you put your money back in.
Read between the lines: The notice that announced the freeze of the scheme in December partly reads, “We need to prevent any problems during the New Year season“. This is explicit. Forget the attempt at keeping members calm, it’s the New Year and there will be problems. So if you’re one of those setting money aside to invest or reinvest in the scheme, we pray that you will receive wisdom.
Keep your heart healthy: This is especially for those who have frozen cash running into millions. Truth is: You may not get your money back. For now though, we are sure you’re still very hopeful, drawing a budget for how you will spend or invest the cash this 2017. Keep in mind that the return may be a total crash, in actual sense. No point mincing words, you’ll be devastated when this happens so the common sense thing to do is to eat and live healthy because your heart is at stake.
Preach the Gospel of MMM: Too many people are pessimistic about the scheme as it is now. When it returns, they will take our first advice above, run and never look back. But in a country of over 140 million people, Mavrodi will be super proud of you if you keep the scheme alive and strong by introducing it to new people. MMM will continue to survive as long as Nigerians keep pumping money into it so take on the responsibility of spreading the word, over the next 10 days.
Bants and memes will be live: This is in the event of a crash. Hell will be let loose on social media, especially Twitter NG. Observers who are waiting for the monumental fall of MMM will begin to share torturous tweets as 14 January nears, members who have thin skins will get extra defensive and when the pyramid eventually comes tumbling down (we’re not saying it will though),  there will be madness.