I was thinking 'fraud' when reading the above posts about where the money came from.
So was someone else.
"Bedazzling shill-Bots (i.e. ordinary working-folk who appear to have achieved their dreams of wealth and freedom, by duplicating a 'proven plan') have always been used to keep luring new victims into the pernicious 'MLM' game of make-believe.
All 'MLM' racketeers have deliberately hidden the effectively-100% loss/churn rates in their so-called 'income opportunities'.
the deliberate hiding of key-information in order to gain advantage, is defined as a form of criminal theft by UK Fraud Act 2006 (section 3)."