Abundance Community gives no details about who owns or runs the enterprise on their web site.
In actual fact as I write this, Abundance Community’s web site is nothing greater than an affiliate login type.
Additional analysis reveals Abundance Community’s Phrases and Situations (not linked from their web site).
Abundance Community’s Phrases and Situations makes a number of references to “Autom8tion LLC”;
This Phrases of Use and the license granted will not be assigned or sublet by You with out Autom8tion, LLC. and Abundance Community’s written consent upfront.
Autom8tion LLC is a Utah firm owned by Jeffrey Alan Lengthy, higher identified within the MLM trade as Jeff Lengthy.
Jeff Lengthy first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar because the founding father of AutoXTen, a recruitment scheme launched in 2011.
AutoXTen collapsed a number of months after launch, with Lengthy going to launch SMS Dailies. It too didn’t final lengthy.
Lengthy (proper) resurfaced in late 2015 with Get Paid Social, a Fb spam pyramid scheme.
Get Paid Social went into decline all through 2016, prompting Lengthy to launch 1 On-line Enterprise in mid 2017.
1 On-line Enterprise mixed a cycler Ponzi enterprise mannequin with social media spam. Alexa visitors estimates for the 1 On-line Enterprise present a short hype interval adopted by a collapse main into 2018.
Lengthy launched and commenced selling Luvv, a pyramid scheme, round April, 2018.
Luvv is believed to have collapsed a number of months after its launch.
Earlier this yr Lengthy resurfaced with NewU Monetary, a shady MLM gifting scheme promising traders a 200% ROI.
Right here’s how that performed out:
NewU Monetary flopping seems to have prompted Lengthy to launch Abundance Community.
Learn on for a full assessment of the Abundance Community MLM alternative.
Abundance Community’s Merchandise
Abundance Community has no retailable services or products, with associates solely in a position to market Abundance Community affiliate membership itself.
Abundance Community’s Compensation Plan
New Abundance Community associates reward $100 to present Abundance Community associates.
The precise compensation plan utilized by Abundance Community is a 2-up mannequin, tracked via a unilevel crew.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a unilevel crew, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned straight beneath them (stage 1):
If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel crew.
If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
A brand new Abundance Community affiliate is recruited and presents $100 to an present affiliate.
They then begin spamming a equipped telephone quantity, with the goal of recruiting individuals beneath them.
Right here’s how gifting funds inside Abundance Community play out:
- associates preserve $100 gifted by the primary affiliate they recruit
- $100 gifted by the second affiliate they recruit is handed upline (to the affiliate who recruited them)
- associates preserve $100 gifted by the third affiliate they recruit
- $100 gifted by the fourth affiliate they recruit is handed upline (to the affiliate who recruited them)
- associates preserve $100 gifted by their fifth and onward personally recruited associates
The unilevel crew comes into play by nature of recruited associates additionally having to pass-up gifting funds from their second and fourth recruited associates.
Associates recruited by these associates additionally must go up their second and fourth gifting funds, and so forth and so forth.
Relying on how deep an Abundance Community’s unilevel crew grows, handed up gifting funds can theoretically be sourced from an infinite variety of ranges.
Becoming a member of Abundance Community
Abundance Community affiliate membership is tied to a $100 gifting fee.
Conclusion
I vaguely keep in mind Jeff Lengthy professing he was finished with scams as a part of his NewU Life advertising and marketing efforts.
With Abundance Community I suppose that sentiment has gone out the window.
Abundance Community is an easy phone-based gifting scheme. Completely unlawful in Lengthy’s native Utah and all over the place else within the US.
As an alternative of a web site, Abundance Community associates are given a telephone quantity to run round spamming unsuspecting victims with.
When you name the quantity, you’re introduced with a advertising and marketing voice message from Jeff Lengthy.
Hello there.
Nicely thanks for calling to study how one can realistically be incomes anyplace from $100 to $500 or extra per day, working from residence by merely sharing a telephone quantity with others.
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You be part of us for a small one-time price, we offer you a telephone quantity, you share that telephone quantity with others, and after they name in … you may have the potential to being paid $100 – which fits on to you by way of Venmo, Money App, PayPal, Stripe, bitcoin, or every other fee technique you select.
The truth that math ensures nearly all of gifting contributors lose cash, means Jeff Lengthy’s Abundance Community advertising and marketing efforts are clearly in violation of the FTC Act.
As per the FTC Act, it’s unlawful to make false or unsubstantiated revenue claims to market an MLM alternative.
One want solely look so far as MOBE or Digital Altitude for current enforcement actions associated to FTC Act violations.
Gifting schemes like Abundance Community function as pyramid schemes.
Nothing is marketed or offered to retail clients, with 100% of commissions paid out sourced from new recruits.
What differentiates a gifting pyramid scheme from an everyday pyramid scheme is fee being made straight between contributors.
The top results of each fashions nonetheless is similar.
Jeff Lengthy and high recruiters will obtain the lion’s share of funds gifted into Abundance Community.
To ensure that Lengthy and his high recruiters to make that cash, the remainder of the Abundance Community affiliate-base has to lose it.
Replace eighth July 2019 – Citing pyramid scheme issues, service suppliers have terminated their contracts with Abundance Community.
Replace sixth August 2019 – Jeff Lengthy has revealed Abundance Community will relaunch with a brand new compensation plan.