I do believe the cheques are real for LTW
Seenthelight MLM money could be seen to follow the law of conservation of energy - that is, it is neither created or destroyed it just transforms from one form to another! So your average new recruit's hard earned joining fee, training day ticket money and network marketing ephemera is transformed into giant wipe clean cheques, shiny red-soled shoes, giant bags with tiny handles and unfathomable white 4x4s. And there is no such thing as 'residual income', the CCs and points and dohickeys have to keep accumulating so the MLM money gets transformed again.
I've no doubt that there are people involved in LTW that have received a lot of money but that is because it is a pyramid scheme and relies on a lot of people paying over the odds for goods they have to pay an additional fee to buy.
LTW and the rest give those involved at the very bottom and lower levels of the scheme THE FALSE EXPECTATION OF FUTURE REWARD. Those higher up know exactly what they're doing.
I miss Eyespying. The Victorian State minister Jane Garrett, quoted in the Australian article, is channelling him though 
when she says:
“Selling people snake oil is as old as the hills, but its devastating damage is as fresh today"
Thank you Bot Watch and Timeless Vie for keep on harping keeping on