Opinion ID: 3000706
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Heading: The July 2001 and August 2001 Advertisement

Text: The July 2001 and August 2001 editions contained additional, significant changes. Like the April 2001 advertisement, these identical advertisements gave new members of the Christian Freedom Foundation “a chance” to get free electricity for life by paying to join the Christian Freedom Foundation. They also offered the opportunity to make $472,320 per year and contained a photograph of the generator. Rather than merely joining a 3x8 forced matrix, however, new members would be entered twice into a “Double Flip-Flop 3x8 forced matrix.” The advertisements stated that new members “will get commissions from the first matrix on the 10th of the month, and from the second one on the 25th of the month. The payments will be $2.00 each for every person who has joined after you—up to five levels (363 positions)—twice a month. That totals $1452.00 per month.” The advertisements claimed that new members who recruited additional members would have even greater earning potential. These advertisements also contained a chart that showed how the Double Flip-Flop 3x8 matrix purportedly operated and offered various “quick start bonuses,” including a bonus of $15 for each person introduced by the new member to the Christian Freedom Foundation. These solicitations even asked the attractive question, “Finally, how about if we GUARANTEE your income? Guarantee that you will make at least 20% more than you paid to join CFF? We will!” (Emphasis in original.) Readers No. 06-2392 5 were asked to call a telephone number for an explanation as to how the guarantee works. In a smaller typeface, the advertisements hedged on the guarantee, stating, Caveat on all the numbers in this article: No one knows for sure what anyone else’s future earnings will be. The figures in the article and on the chart are projections only of what is possible. What your actual earnings will be is determined by your own efforts and the rest of your team—those people who are above and below you in your matrix, eight levels each way. In an about-face, the advertisements continued: “Having said that, there WILL BE spillover. It is a forced matrix. You benefit from everyone else in your matrix—above and below you.” They directed the readers to rush to submit their applications to the Christian Freedom Foundation by exclaiming, “First come; first served!” Because applications were time and date stamped, the advertisements explained, two applications received ten minutes apart could mean that the first person would make money sooner than the second person as a result of their different placements in the Double Flip-Flop 3x8 forced matrix.