An addendum to "Break the Chain" (C) 1995 Whirlwind Software Here is an excerpt from the Criminal Code of Canada. The 1993 Carswell edition points to this section in the index under "Pyramid Selling". It states that anyone who: "conducts or manages any scheme, contrivance, or operation of any kind by which any person, on payment of any sum of money, or the giving of any valuable security, or by obligating himself to pay any sum of money or give any valuable security, shall become entitled under the scheme, contrivance, or operation to receive from the person conducting or managing the scheme, contrivance or operation, or any other person, a larger sum of money or amount of valuable security than the sum or amount paid or given, or to be paid or given, by reason of the fact that other persons have paid or given, or obligated themselves to pay or give any sum of money or valuable security under the scheme, contrivance, or operation" ... is guilty of an offence. That's pretty convoluted language, as is most legalese. Let's "distill" it a bit by replacing "scheme, contrivance or operation" with just "scheme" and "a sum of money or valuable security" with just "money". So we have that anyone who: "conducts any scheme by which a person, on payment of money, shall become entitled under the scheme to receive from the person conducting the scheme (or from any other person) a larger sum of money than the amount paid, by reason of the fact that other persons have paid money under the scheme" ...is guilty. What it's saying here is that you can't start, or involve yourself in, a scheme wherein you get money because others paid into the scheme. This outlaws the old fashioned pyramid where you simply sent the letter out to more people and sent your $2 or $5 to the people on the list. However, the phrase "by reason of the fact that other persons have paid..." fairly clearly limits the law to covering the just-send-money pyramid game - where you send money and get nothing back for it except the "right" to continue propagating the scheme. It does not cover multi-level sales of real products or services, not even multi-levels that could, by their nature, form exponentiating pyramids. Technically, this law doesn't even apply to the "Four Reports" scheme, though any sane prosecutor trying a four-report'er would wish it did. However "postal fraud" sections of the CCC cover the "Four Reports" and "Dave Rhodes" schemes effectively. ______ ..m############m.. Looking for something to read? m" """ "## ####m m##m "#" ######m Call the greatest Text File BBS .####".m#### #######. in the world! m#############. .#m########m |############### ############| THC Freedom Online BBS ################m |############# |##################. m## ##############| Victoria, B.C., Canada |###################m ##################| 1.9 Gigabytes Online - 2 Lines |#####################mm"" """#########| 17,000 Text Files ######################## "###### |#######################| |####| Free Trial Access available! "#######################m #####" `####################### .m######' (604) 361-4549 [300-28800 V.FC] "#################### ######" (604) 380-6467 [300-14400 V32b] "################l ####" ""==########=="" "Reach For The Edges Of Your Mind"