A reader asks: Have you ever heard of Polaris Media Group? Well, if you have not, please Google them! They offer themselves as an entrepreneur business where their ‘distributors’ advertise products sold by the business and make a profit. You also make money by bringing others into the business and earn a percentage of what they sell. Is this legit and legal? No, I’d never heard of Polaris Media Group until you asked, but I did Google them and found a few sites: Polaris Media Group – their website. Very tech heavy and as a result slow to load, making it very tedious to find anything on the site. I didn’t actually manage to get any of the product pages to load so can’t comment on those. A review of the Polaris Media Group ‘Home Business Opportunity’ which explains that (note the highlight in bold): “ Polaris Media Group officially launches on September 9, 2009. The company is a re-branding or launch of the popular personal development company Liberty League International . They offer the same basic product line that was offered by LLI . In addition, they have a new line of “stand alone” products that are designed to aid in self help and personal development for the entrepreneur in today’s economy.” A blog post suggesting that the Australian government recently indicated that Liberty League International is a pyramid scheme citing the press release here . Then there’s all this coverage on another blog. So looking at the criteria I described in Defining Business Opportunity Scams : The investment required: