What is the legal ruling on subscribing to websites that rely on a geometric progression, where the subscriber pays 100 and receives 55 for every 8 people who follow them, with the possibility of earning thousands of dollars?
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The aforementioned operation is not a sale; rather, it is a form of gambling, (speculative transactions), and illicit seizure of people's money by encouraging idleness and drawing them into a sequence that benefits no one but those who manage it. Indeed, there is no value for the money except deceiving people and plunging them into a sequence of delusions.
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