What is the ruling on working on a project consisting of two branches: purchasing goods online from "Gold Quest" company and earning a commission for promoting its products, with the commitment not to promote prohibited items?
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The pyramid scheme appears as a legitimate brokerage, but considers the consequences of actions. International laws classify pyramid marketing companies as fraud and deception companies. Complaints have been filed against companies like SkyBiz, accusing them of fraud. Contemporary jurists have found that pyramid marketing companies are based on deceiving people and unlawfully consuming their wealth, leading to losses for a large segment of participants, and that the goods are not the intended purpose of the transaction but rather introduced to circumvent laws.
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Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
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