Get Help Works, an online scheme advertising monthly returns as high as 130%, operates without disclosing its ownership or management on its public website. While the company claims origins as a "mutual aid community founded in Canada," its domain registration for gethelp.works remains private since its June 3, 2016 establishment.
This lack of transparency makes it difficult for potential participants and regulators to identify the true operators. Alexa traffic data indicates that 26.5% of visitors to the Get Help Works website originate from India. This pattern suggests that operations may be based in India, despite the Canadian founding claim.
Get Help Works offers no retailable products or services. Instead, affiliates market only the Get Help Works affiliate membership itself. Legitimate multi-level marketing businesses typically sell tangible goods or services to outside customers, generating revenue from genuine sales, not just recruitment.
The compensation plan centers on an investment model. Affiliates invest between $50 and $10,000, with promises of substantial monthly returns. Investments from $50 to $800 reportedly yield a 100% monthly return, while investments from $810 to $10,000 are advertised at a 130% monthly return. The system mandates that the initial invested amount is automatically re-invested at the close of each month for affiliates to continue earning these returns. This mandatory re-investment locks capital within the system.
Referral commissions are paid through a unilevel compensation structure. An affiliate sits at the top, with personally recruited individuals on Level 1. Any affiliates recruited by Level 1 members fall onto Level 2, and so on, theoretically down an infinite number of levels. Commissions are paid as a percentage of funds invested by affiliates within this unilevel team. Level 1 recruits generate a 5% commission, Levels 2 and 3 yield 3%, Levels 4 and 5 pay 1%, and Level 6 offers 0.1%.
To qualify for these referral commissions, a Get Help Works affiliate must invest at least $300 and personally recruit a minimum of ten new affiliates. Affiliates can withdraw up to $3000 in referral commissions every 24 hours.
The scheme also provides "Executive Bonuses," which are one-time payments tied to recruitment milestones. An affiliate who personally recruits 300 individuals and has a total downline of 1000 affiliates receives a $1000 bonus. Recruiting 600 affiliates with a 10,000-person downline earns a $10,000 bonus. The largest bonus, $100,000, is offered for personally recruiting 5000 affiliates and building a total downline of 100,000.
Affiliate membership with Get Help Works is free, but participation in the compensation plan requires an initial investment of at least $50. This model, which offers high, fixed returns funded by subsequent investor money and heavily incentivizes recruitment, closely resembles the structure of a Ponzi scheme, a form of investment fraud. The infamous MMM Global scheme, which collapsed multiple times, used similar mechanics to attract and trap funds from new participants.