Villagers in Thailand are being bought magical “vitality playing cards”, prompting authorities to raid the Professional Professional Community firm places of work.
Professional Professional Community is a Thai MLM firm owned and operated by Thanat Surin.
Early final week experiences emerged of Isaan villagers being bought Professional Professional Community vitality playing cards for 1,100 to 1,500 baht every ($35 – $48 USD).
The advertising behind the playing cards claims they can be utilized to:
- purify water
- scale back vitality payments
- strengthen the guts
- enhance the immune system and
- enhance metabolism
Final Thursday Thai police raided Professional Professional Community’s Songklha places of work.
Surin (proper) was nowhere to be discovered and so a summons was issued.
Following the raid Surin disabled his identified telephone numbers and closed down Professional Professional Community’s places of work.
On the time of publication the playing cards aren’t featured on Professional Professional Community’s web site. The corporate additionally sells alkaline, stem cell and ldl cholesterol discount dietary supplements.
Surin, a former police officer, claims to have begun promoting the playing cards after he acquired them from La Genius.
La Genius was a Malaysian MLM firm that has since collapsed. The playing cards themselves are reportedly of Indonesian origin, but in addition include the phrases “German Expertise” on them.
In an try to defend Professional Professional Community, Surin has since appeared on the native tv present Hoan Krasae.
As reported by Khaosod, on the present Surin
pulled out an “ion tester” machine to make use of on a bank card and one in all his vitality playing cards. The bank card measured “3” whereas the Vitality Card measured a “8345” on an unknown scale.
Chemistry professor Weerachai Phutdhawong, additionally a visitor on the present, introduced his personal multimeter to make use of on the cardboard however discovered that the cardboard didn’t emit any voltage.
Surin additionally tried to disassociate himself from the way in which Professional Professional Community’s playing cards had been being marketed.
The playing cards assist calm down your muscle tissue via adverse ions. It’s not magical.
The villagers are those dipping them in water and ingesting. I didn’t inform them to.
That is in distinction to the findings of Thai authorities, who upon raiding Professional Professional Community’s places of work discovered ‘brochures boasting the false claims‘.
Thai officers have declared Professional Professional Community’s card to be a hoax and have launched a marketing campaign to warn Isaan locals.
Police added that to hitch Professional Professional Community, distributors needed to pay 4,400 baht for 5 playing cards, and promote them for 1,100 to 1,500 baht every.
They might solely be paid as soon as they bought the playing cards or recruited extra distributors.
“If there’s proof of false promoting to trick shoppers, that would the idea of prosecution,” Police Maj. Gen. Phromnuttaket Hamkumpai of the Khon Kaen Provincial Police mentioned.
Whether or not additional motion is taken in opposition to Surin or Professional Professional Community stays to be seen.
Replace 18th June 2019 – Evaluation of Professional Professional Community’s playing cards has revealed they include radioactive and heavy steel supplies.
Replace twenty first June 2019 – Felony fraud fees have been filed in opposition to the “perpetrators” behind Professional Professional Community’s vitality card gross sales.