The Bad Side of MMM
Hmm, let's see...
It's a pyramid scheme, openly admitted to by the operators.
It creates no added value or profit by business activity, it just moves money from one person to another. According to basic mathematics, it is destined to fail, whether it's days, weeks, months is anyone's guess.
In order to give/receive "help" (money), you become involved with dealing in 'Mavros'.
Mavros are named after Sergey Mavrodi, (Google and read) who, in previous MMM's, set the exchange rate for Mavro/your local currency. Sociopath or saviour, Mavrodi is a very clever man. Over the years, he has developed a pricing system for mavros which maximizes the life of the scheme and creates value within it for the operators.
As in any pyramid, the most important thing is the continued flow of new, bottom tier money into it. If you want extra Mavros, you must spam for MMM where and when you are told to.
You are controlled in when and who you send money to. Any breach of your instructions is a reason for termination. Try getting your money back then.
Previously, there have been 'freeze' or lock in times, during which you have no access to your money, real or mavro, without penalty.
Mavrodi justifies this by admitting that large scale withdrawals would kill MMM.
Pyramid schemes are illegal in most parts of the "first world" (even though one of the biggest, Amway, flourishes in the US because of its ability to fund huge legal defenses from its profits).
This is why the current targets for MMM are India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and the Phillipines.
Illegality may not bother you, but when things go wrong (as they will), it means no recourse to the legal system and possible action against people at manager + level.
Ignore the clever marketing that this is a social service of some sort, or a strike back against the evil banking system on behalf of the guy in the street. It's not, it's a clever repeating scam which has cost
millions of poor people their savings by masquerading as their friend.
Anyway, all those words are wasted on you, krunox, because it is obvious that you are going to give it a try.
Come back and tell us how you get on, but if you start spamming it here, I'll report the fuck out of you to the mods.
