1040 sunshine project is a new type of pyramid scheme, and its activity mode obviously conforms to the characteristics of attracting people, paying members and developing offline to seek illegal interests, which has been confirmed as pyramid scheme.

The core idea of 1040 MLM organization is to develop offline. New members need to pay a membership fee of 69,800 yuan, and then continue to develop "salesmen". As long as the salesman has excellent performance, the final income is1040,000 yuan. 1040 hence the name of the sunshine project.

2065438+September 2009, the police of Jiangbei New District Branch of Nanjing Public Security Bureau got clues. After nearly two months of investigation, they gradually found out their organizational structure and action information. 101in the early morning of October 30, the police dispatched more than 300 police officers, which were divided into 7 arrest groups and 4 mobile groups, and concentrated on cleaning up 5 1 dens of this MLM organization and arrested 56 key members of the MLM organization. These 56 MLM backbone members were criminally detained according to law. The amount involved reached180,000 yuan.