QNet banned in Afghanistan, staff & promoters jailed
Afghanistan’s Ministry of the Interior has banned QNet nationwide.
Forty QNet staff and promoters in Kabul have also been arrested on fraud charges.
Afghanistan’s regulatory action appears to have taken place mid 2020.
39 of the detained people were sentenced to one and a half years in jail and one to one year and one month imprisonment.
I became aware of the arrests via a March 12th report from Pajhwok, citing an earlier report in Persian from 8am.
Despite the nationwide ban, Pajhwok reports QNet is still illegally being promoted across Afghanistan.
Pajhwok findings show that QNET is an unregistered company with its central office in Shahr-e-Naw locality and regional offices in other parts of Kabul city.
The company is functioning illegally and recruits youth daily offering them the easiest ways to earn money and quickly become well-off.
Some youth told Pajhwok Afghan News they visited the company to get job and money, but after some times when the company received membership fee from them, they realized that the company was deceiving them and the only purpose was snatching money from youth.
A reporter from Pajhwok visited QNet’s Afghan office to confirm illegal operations.
Pajhwok’s report is worh a read. They interview several QNet affiliates who detail an obvious pyramid scheme.
Suhaila Karimi, a graduate of Herat Science Faculty, said … some of her friends are still members of the company who have no way to leave or stay because they made huge investment in the company and was compelled to recruit more people through advertisement.
This tracks with BehindMLM’s published QNet review.
According to Pajhwok, Afghan authorities have confirmed they’ve are again receiving complaints in regards to QNet. Whether any further action is taken remains to be seen.
At the time of publication Alexa traffic estimates suggest QNet is being primarily promoted in South Africa, India and Russia.
That time they are celebrating being new members of the DSA in France.
The DSA has zero credibility. This company is clearly a pyramid scheme.
Qnet is a scam and it targets poor countries where there are no strict rules.
I am from Afghanistan. Let me explain it to you why Qnet is a scam.
Qnet is not only illegal in Afghanistan, but it is also illegal in many other countries like India and… , because It works as a Pyramid Scheme in Afghanistan and many other countries.
Pyramid Scheme is absolutely illegal in all countries, because its is a scam.
I had been invited to Qnet unaware to be given a job, but fortunately I recognized the scam.
How is it a scam?
In Mutli Level Network Marketing company like Qnet people can earn money from selling the products of the company to retail customers and also they earn money from recruiting new distributers and the sales the new distributers make.
In a legal Network Marketing Company distributers must earn more money from selling products to retail costumers than recruiting new people.
But the focus of Qnet in Afghanistan is only on recruiting new distributers and this type of fraudulent is called Pyramid Scheme.
In Pyramid Scheme only the people at the top makes more money.
Qnet’s distributers in Afghanistan say buy a starter kit at about 1000$ and introduce two of your friends in one month then each of them will introduce two of their own friends each month and the process goes on and you will get retired in 9 months and will have 27200$ retirement each month.
Which in 25 levels and months 33,554,432 new people will have joined the company and in this case the people at the lower level which are more than 16 millions people will have no one to bring and they will earn no money.
Because there is no more people left in Afghanistan and the people one level above which are 8+ Millions will have made 20% of their investment, about 4 millions people will have made 40% of their investment, about 2 million people will have made 80% of their investment, about 1 million people will have made a little more than their investment and only less than 5% of the people will have made more money.
If the process goes on up to 33 levels there will be no more people left in the world.
Finally, Qnet does not even have a single sale to retail costumers in Afghanistan and the company and their distributers only make money be recruiting new distributers and promising them earing a huge amount of money. That is why it is a scam.