And the Hello and welcome to Multilevel Mondays, a weekly series all about pyramid schemes,

Ponzi schemes, multi-level marketing, and other forms of business fraud.

I'm the Illuminati and today we're going to be talking about an

MLM that's come pretty heavily requested despite their being fairly new and

without a ton of information about them.

31 gifts.

They're also just called 31 pretty frequently among my sources and online, so I'll be

calling them 31 today for the sake of consistency and simplicity. And to just be frank here 31 is kind of well a train wreck. I do want to put a

little disclaimer here at the front of the episode to say that as I've stated in

the past you can believe whatever you want religiously spiritually

whatever as long as you're not infringing on anyone else's rights. I am going to

be criticizing this MLM and the way that I personally think it manipulates

sellers especially Christian sellers using and the way that I personally think it manipulates sellers,

especially Christian sellers using biblical verses and values.

I'm not saying that anyone is wrong for being a Christian,

just that using faith to promote a pyramid scheme is well a bit troubling.

I am sure most of you probably knew that but I feel like I just need to put that out there anyway.

In case you can't tell from that disclaimer we are in for one hell of a bumpy ride.

So buckle up and let's get right into it. There's a fair bit of information online about the founder, Cindy Monroe.

However, I'll be the first to admit that it's not necessarily the most reputable or at least not

completely recognizable sources. Since they do seem to corroborate one another

though let's take a look at what we can find. Apparently, Cindy Monroe graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in

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