Entries by Dolphin Media Production

Lyoness and its new countries!

After its prohibition in Norway and Italy as well as the final convictions as a snowball system (Ponzi scheme) in Austria and Switzerland, Lyoness is planning its entry into other countries. Amongst them are Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Argentina, Columbia, Egypt and even African countries..   Presentation during an event in January It may not […]

Norwegian appeal committee confirmed the ban on Lyoness by decision of 27 January 2019!

Lyoness Europe AG and Lyoness Norway AS appealed against this resolution, lastly due to “procedural irregularity and disproportion”. The authority confirmed the resolution on 27 January 2019 according to which Lyoness’ entire business is an illegal pyramidlike trading system in accordance with § 16 (2) of the lottery law and announced that the ban of […]

Lyoness: Following Norway, Italy now also prohibits Lyconet practices!

The Italian competition authority (AGCM) adopted a decision (19 December 2018) – as the Norwegian competition authority did before – showing that Lyoness/Lyconet’s business practices are wrong (incorrect/irregular) and now prohibits its dissemination and continuation. Amongst others, investigations are currently still in progress in Poland. Page 35 of the Italian decision: (Decision Italy 19.Dec. 2018) […]

December 2018 is the month of decisions on Lyoness in Italy and Norway.

The Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, also known as „Antitrust“ or AGCM, is the national Italian Competition Authority. On December 18, 2018, the judgement on whether Italy rates Lyoness as a snowball system or not, will be passed. The Situation seems to be quite similar to Norway. In the field of „Cashback-World“ Italy […]

INTERSPORT Germany forbids Cashback-World the use of their logo!

INTERSPORT is the biggest medium-sized mail order business group in worldwide sports retail. Under, 5800 locations in 65 countries are united under the umbrella of the IIC-Intersport International Corporation GmbH, the purchasing and management corporation of the Intersport group. In 2014 they generated a turnover of EUR 10,5 billion. With market shares of around 36% […]

my World/Lyconet! Von „Länderpaketen“ über „Costumer Cloud“ zur „Enterprise Cloud“.

Mit Lyconet hat die Klägerin 2014 die sog. Customer Clouds ins Leben gerufen. Vertragspartner ist nach wie vor die Lyoness Europe AG. Die von Lyoness angebotenen Customer Clouds funktionieren auf die gleiche Art wie die Rabattgutscheine, mit dem Unterschied, dass die Rückzahlung auf dem Umsatz von Mitgliedern außerhalb des Netzwerkes des Mitgliedes beruht. Es gibt […]

Lyoness must stop illegal pyramid activty!

On 31 May 2018, the Norwegian Gaming Authority made the decision in which Lyoness was notified that it must immediately cease all operations of, participation in and extent of its activity in Norway, as it is in violation of Section 16 second paragraph, cf. first paragraph, of the Lottery Act. In a supervisory case against […]

History to “Norwegian authority unmasks Lyoness in trial to close down the company”

It is typical for Lyoness to play down in an “initial assessment” the decision by the Norwegian regulatory authority. As a matter of fact, Lyoness has been targeted by the Norwegian regulatory authority already since 2013, which I have also reported on in blog entries of June 6, 2014 on this website. The Norwegian authority […]

Regulatory authority shuts down Lyoness & Lyconet in Norway!

In a 16-page decision, the Norwegian regulatory authority “Lotteri- og siftelsestilsynet” (publication by the Norwegian authority) has classified the companies Lyoness Norway AS and the “new variety” Lyconet as illegal pyramide schemes and snowball systems and has demanded that the companies cease all business activities within four weeks. Should Lyoness Norway AS and Lyconet not […]