Is renting a tourist car in Lingui County a pyramid scheme?

To determine whether a company is a pyramid scheme, it needs to be determined by the administrative agency or judicial department based on the specific circumstances. If the company's behavior meets the following conditions, it is a pyramid scheme.

(Amended according to the Seventh Amendment to the Criminal Law) Article 224-1 of the Criminal Law: In the name of promoting goods, providing services and other business activities, organizations and leaders require participants to pay fees or A pyramid scheme that obtains membership qualifications by purchasing goods, services, etc., and organizes hierarchies in a certain order, directly or indirectly uses the number of developers as the basis for remuneration or rebates, induces and coerces participants to continue to develop others to participate, defrauds property, and disrupts the economic and social order. active.

The following behaviors in Article 7 of the "Regulations on Prohibition of Pyramid Selling" belong to pyramid schemes:

(1) The organizer or operator, through the development personnel, requires the development personnel to develop other personnel to join, Calculate and pay remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits, the same below) to the development personnel based on the number of direct or indirect development personnel, and seek illegal benefits;

(2) Organizers Or the operator, through development personnel, requires the developed personnel to pay fees or pay fees in disguised form by subscribing for goods, etc., to obtain the qualifications to join or develop other personnel to join, and seek illegal benefits;

(3) Organizer Or the operator, through development personnel, requires the development personnel to develop other personnel to join, forming an upline and downline relationship, and calculates and pays upline remuneration based on the sales performance of the downline, and seeks illegal benefits.

In the "Regulations on the Prohibition of Pyramid Selling", the concept of hierarchical relationship is repeatedly mentioned. The hierarchical relationship formed by certain rules is only a phenomenon among many pyramid schemes. It must be combined with the illegal possession of other people's property to be suspected of pyramid schemes.