When you are cheated into a pyramid scheme, it is most important to learn to protect your personal safety, and then try to escape. Then call the police to deal with it. According to the law, if it constitutes a crime, it shall be dealt with as the crime of illegal business operation according to the Seventh Amendment to the Criminal Law: if the circumstances are serious, the organizer who organizes and leads the implementation of the act shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

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Article 224 of the Criminal Law

Organizations and leaders who organize and lead the crime of illegal activities, in the name of selling goods and providing services, require participants to obtain membership qualifications by paying fees or purchasing goods and services, and form hierarchies in a certain order, directly or indirectly using the number of development personnel as the basis for remuneration or rebate, and induce or coerce participants to continue to develop others to participate in illegal activities, defraud property and disrupt economic and social order, and shall also be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.