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The BBC's Kirsty Grant reports on the growth of multilevel-marketing schemes in the UK built around beauty brands. These companies are "cult-like" businesses operating as close to pyramid schemes as the law allows, barely bothering to sell product at all—unless you're an inductee, in which case you'll be spending a lot of money on product. — Read the rest