We hope your New Year's resolution does not include a pyramid scheme

There is a new Multi level marketing or pyramid scheme on the horizon, following in the footsteps of Bellamora another company that was the focus of posts here on the Bogus Barrister. In the opinions of our contributor network, we think that Seriluna is actually worse than Bellamora as they are urging their "consultants" to sell to their family and friends. Selling to family and friends puts them in PublishAmerica's league. In fact, we are surprised that PA hasn't sent out a promotion selling a license to their authors that would allow them to host PublishAmerica parties. Sends us $399 and we will let you print out our order forms and sell our books like Tupperware. The danger that we foresee here with regard to Seriluna, is that these folks are trying to persuade beauty and fashion bloggers to promote this. Unsuspecting bloggers will no doubt publish information regarding this company which purports to sell spa products and loungewear, without taking a closer look at the structure of this company. Remember that cheating people is never fashionable! In this economy many people may be tempted to buy in (and you MUST buy your own starter kit) In the case of Bellamora, people lost thousands of dollars and the executives just vanished with the money. There are also serious concerns as to what happened to their customer's personal and banking information that also vanished. We at the Bogus Barrister now have Seriluna on our radar and will be looking much further into this. Meanwhile, here is what the company is claiming. "Usually at the end of December, we put together a list of New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately though, most people have a tendency to fall right back into old habits. This new year, however, Seriluna is determined to help your readers follow through on their New Year’s Resolutions with the launch of its newest spa consultant program. This exciting program allows them to earn extra money by selling natural and organic products to their family and friends from the comfort of their own homes. Seriluna’s spa consultants will: Have the opportunity to join an innovative and new business; Have the flexibility to create their schedules around family and ther obligations; Earn more income as they add more people to their teams; (this is how a pyramid scam operates) Market their businesses with personal websites that Seriluna sets up; (Bellamora also did this) Not have to stock or manage any inventory; (right. because you have to buy it from the person who recruited you) Choose from comprehensive starter kits that allow them to launch their own business within days; (this is where you pay Seriluna to sell their products for them!) Another fact to consider before plunking down cash to start these home businesses is that many munipalities have ordinances against running any type of business from a residential zone. While most cities allow you to run an internet buisness from your home, there are laws against having "foot traffic" going in and out of a residence.

SPAMMERS citing new laws that do not exist

The Bogus Barrister has been subscribed to an emailing list without consent like most people who are spammed. The list seems to be aimed at Home based businesses or Multi Level Marketing. I do believe we have addressed those types of scams here on our blog. They are using a software that harvests email addresses from the internet and those are passes off as "sales leads." Be that as it may, this spammer included a disclaimer at the bottom that tricks people into thinking that some sort of new bill or law has been passed regarding SPAM.

"This message is sent in compliance of the new e-mail bill: SECTION 301. paragraph (A)(2)(C) of S. " WUT?

"This message is NOT Spam as long as you are provided with a way to stop at any time, simply email back with remove in subject line*"

First of all, This piece of SPAM attempts to inform it's spamees that there has been new federal legislation that addresses the issue of unsolicited email aka SPAM and it proceeds to define conditions under which their Spam has been declared "legal" by the passage of this bill. This disclaimer and passage of the federal bill itself are both 100% fiction. There however was such a bill before the 105th congress but the entire Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C) was removed before it was passed by the Senate. The Bill was never passsed by the House of Representatives and thus it never became law. It would be one thing if this was sent from a foreign country not up to date on American law, but this email was sent from IP 161.58.75.66 which is New York.

Most spammers violate the proposed bill they mention, because they don't provide their email addresses, real names, physical addresses and phone numbers in the beginning of their messages. All reputable business will include this information.

The Bogus Barrister never advises people to respond to SPAM, especially one that uses deception to pursuade you to email them back. Spammers do not know if they have a valid address or not unless you reply. Even to tell them off, simply notifies them that its a live address. Your address gets placed on more email lists that you never subscribed to and will generate even more spam. Instead, you can report them to their email service. This one was sent by affiliate.marketer01@gmail.com . So you can forward copies with full headers to abuse@google.com and abuse at gmail.com. You can always use a free service like spamcop.net which will file those spam reports for you. Many email services will disable accounts caught sending out mass spam.

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