Multilevel marketing or MLM has become a serious source of debate.
Although MLMs are intrinsically unstable and only guaranteed by design to oversaturate the market, thousands of people are running after it.
Most of the times, the only money to be made is not from the product or service but from the losses of people lower down in the organisation.
Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, a unit of Destiny Ltd, hit the media spotlight recently for running what Bangladesh Bank said was illegal banking.
The Daily Star has put together several Web reports to make sense of how MLM works.
-With The Daily Star input