It's not just Herbalife. There are so many MLMs out there, it's madness. One former friend is a former friend because he fell victim to some German MLM, believe it was about a website where you could do conference calls.

Back when I was younger, I was a stagehand at a venue where a huge MLM, also named in the Fortune article, had thrown a yuuuge party. They rented two entire conference halls for thousands of people and had a giant stage for a musical set up, complete with pyrotechnics and everything.

Utter madness, all financed by poor people who were screwed over by their relatives or close friends...