Consumers alerted to fake rebate scheme   

市场观察：网络传销相继崩盘 消费返利真假可辨

近期，国内数家以“消费返利”为营销手段的“返利网站”相继崩盘，福建百分百返利网骗局更涉及23省市，让消费者们不再相信“返利神话”。

Beijing (CNS) -- A number of websites across the country that were advocating consumer rebates crashed this week.

One Hundred Percent Rebate is a case in point. The website headquartered in Fujian Province set up a monsterously large scam and succeeded in cheating consumers in 23 provinces and cities. The fraud has destroyed consumer belief in the rebate offers.

In fact, the collapsed companies are running a pyramid scheme disguised in a consumer rebate site, and consumers were led to some basic information on the real rebate websites from the fake ones, said Ge Yongchang, the founder and CEO of a consumer rebate website named Fanli.

The so-called rebate benefits are not genuine, said Ge, if they ask consumers to invite more participants into the scheme.