Controversial money-making scheme Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), which abruptly suspended its activities in Nigeria in December 2016, has introduced a number of innovations ahead of the expected resumption date of Saturday, January 14, 2017.

Prominent among the innovation initiated by the promoters of the scheme is a phone number on its website believed to be for interaction with members.

However, when the number, identified by True Caller as MMM Toll-Free Line, Lagos, Nigeria, was called, the call did not go through.

MMM has also changed the Guider’s button which is meant for ordinary participants only. A chat with someone on the MMM website, who goes by the name Consultant Ogbonna, revealed that the status quo may not totally remain when the scheme resumes. He said: “New models and features will be available soon. Nothing of such will occur (referring to the likelihood of using the South African model for those whose Mavros were frozen). MMM Nigeria is built on solid foundation.”

To assure subscribers of its determination to come back better, the scheme had on December 29, 2016, issued instructions to its members. The message as found on its website reads: “We all are part of the MMM worldwide Community. When someone needs financial help, he or she can ask for it and other participants will help him/her. At the same time, being an MMM member implies not only opportunities but also a responsibility for the state and development of the MMM Community. MMM is our home, and we are responsible for building and refining it.

“A lot of participants genuinely want to promote MMM, spread its ideology amongst people, though not always knowing what exactly has to be done. Therefore we have created a new PromoTasks section in the PO, which is added to various tasks: online and offline, easy and complicated, individual and team-oriented. A member who will perform these tasks will be benefited, because the tasks will allow him to attract new referrals, build his structure (and get bonuses for that), and it will be useful the whole Community because more people will learn about MMM and its ideology. In a special section of the MMM Personal Office, each member will find a variety of online and offline tasks. Tasks come with a detailed guide which is understandable even for inexperienced PC users. You can select on your own which tasks you will be doing today – you are free to choose any task and perform as many tasks as you want. “Not everything may go the way it is supposed to when it is done for the first time. Give it a try and do the tasks regularly! There can be different mistakes, but fulfilling tasks you will learn to use social media, forums, messengers, and other online resources for recruiting people to MMM and for the creation of positive awareness about our Community.

“For example, the task may guide a member to join a Facebook group and write a comment. to create some tweets on Twitter, like a YouTube video, share news on Google Plus, and make your website. There are also offline tasks: conducting home sharings, cafe meetings, organising MavroPicnics, MavroParties or MavroGames. Doing the tasks you contribute to the Community’s progress. Thanks to you and other members doing the tasks, MMM gains more popularity in social media and gets more registrations and PHs. MMM needs you and depends on your activity! Please accomplish as many tasks as you can and encourage others to do them regularly as well. It is obvious that the activity of MMM Nigeria members is growing. MMM is very proud of its members who are becoming kinder and more responsible.”

•Adapted from a Sunday Vanguard report.