CCTV News:A variety of diseases can be prevented and treated by soaking feet in a health bucket, which is beneficial to 36 chronic patients such as diabetes, cholecystitis and hepatitis. I believe many people will be very tempted to read the advertisement of this magical health bucket. Recently, however, the Market Supervision Bureau of luqiao district, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, investigated and dealt with the business owners who operated this kind of health barrel according to the clues, and also led to a pyramid scheme.

　　　　　　 The so-called holographic energy health barrel investigated is made of wood, with a height of more than 50 cm. There is a pedal board at the base of the health barrel. After the power supply is turned on, this board can generate heat, and the experiencer can freely control the temperature according to the buttons on the barrel. It is advertised that 36 kinds of people such as constipation, obesity and fatty liver can benefit, and there are 8 functions such as removing toxins, supplementing energy, lowering blood pressure and lipid, and preventing tumors.

　　　　　　 In March 2017, this holographic energy health barrel appeared in a life experience store in luqiao district, Taizhou, Zhejiang.

　　　　　　 Mr. Yang, a citizen of Linhai, said: "No matter what kind of rheumatism or joint it is, it can be used."

　　　　　　　Shen is the owner of this life experience store. According to Shen, there are five or six health barrels in her store, so you can experience them before buying them. The first 8 experiences are free, and then each experience is 15 yuan, and the price of the health barrel is 4980 yuan.

　　　　　　 Mr. Yang, a citizen of Linhai: "It’s a little warm to put your feet in the health bucket. I’ve been here three times."

　　　　　　 Ms. Wang, a citizen of Luqiao: "I sat one day and sweated out the next day. People are comfortable."

　　　　　　 Later, under the strong promotion of Shen, Mr. Yang and Ms. Wang were going to buy health barrels. At this time, Shen suggested that if they sold the health barrels in their stores, they could get rebates.

　　　　　　 If there is a rebate, Mr. Yang and Ms. Wang bought four health barrels each. But after they bought it and used it for a while, they thought it was useless and not easy to sell. After many times of communication, Shen insisted on refusing to return the goods. On May 30th this year, Mr. Yang and Ms. Wang reported their complaints to luqiao district Market Supervision Bureau in Taizhou, Zhejiang.

　　　　　　 After receiving complaints from the public, the Market Supervision Bureau of luqiao district, Taizhou, Zhejiang immediately launched an investigation. After investigation, law enforcement officers found that the business owner of this health barrel not only had illegal activities of false propaganda of health care products, but also was suspected of pyramid schemes.

　　　　　　 After investigation, law enforcement officers found that barrel buyers can be divided into different levels according to the number of health barrels purchased and enjoy different levels of rebates.

　　　　　　 Xu Jiahua, the head of the inspection team of luqiao district Market Supervision Bureau, said: "There are three main characteristics that meet the requirements of pyramid schemes. The first one must pay membership fees, the second one must earn money, and the third one must snowball. The health bucket meets the above three conditions and is a typical pyramid scheme case."

　　　　　　 After the situation was basically clarified, law enforcement officers quickly took action. In order to avoid the destruction of relevant evidence, with the cooperation of the public security department, on June 26 this year, law enforcement officers went all the way to the party’s experience store and all the way to the party’s residence.

　　　　　　 LAM Raymond, deputy head of the inspection brigade of luqiao district Municipal Market Supervision Bureau: "She has records of the data of everyone who bought barrels from her, and then we also found a large number of buyers’ purchase charts drawn by herself in her business outlets. We mainly verified and determined the elements of the whole illegal fact case through the purchase charts and the list of her consumers."

　　　　　　 After investigation, at the end of 2016, Shen, the operator of Hongqiao Hongtao household appliances, was developed into the first person in Taizhou to promote Lilong holographic energy health barrel by his online fumou. Shen attracts customers to come to the store through free experience, and develops customers into offline. Through offline, he continues to develop to the next level, and Shen gets rebates from it.

　　　　　　 Liu Zhen, a member of the inspection team of luqiao district Municipal Market Supervision Bureau: "For Shen, Shen developed the second floor. If the second floor, Shen can get a rebate of 1,200 yuan, and the second floor staff will develop the third floor. Shen can also get a rebate of 1,200 yuan, and the third floor will develop the fourth floor, and so on."

　　　　　　 After investigation, this so-called health bucket is just an ordinary wooden bucket with soaking feet, which has no function of preventing and treating related diseases at all. All kinds of treatment information on the bucket were posted by Shen themselves to promote the health bucket.

　　　　　　 By the date of the incident, Shen had developed a total of 223 people offline and received a total rebate of 113,760 yuan; On the line, Fumou developed a total of 25 people offline, and received a total rebate of 49,200 yuan. On November 5th, according to the first paragraph of Article 8 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Article 7 of the Regulations on Prohibiting MLM in People’s Republic of China (PRC), the luqiao district Municipal Market Supervision Bureau made a total penalty decision of 2.8 million yuan for Shen and Fu. On November 9, the fine was executed in place.