1.   Awareness is a multilevel marketing company with a Web page that promotes health-care products, including those that help remove parasites and tone muscles.

2.   David Bosset, owner of the multilevel marketing company, said Friday that he had not been served with the lawsuit.

3.   Legitimate multilevel companies also have come under scrutiny and have spent several years trying to rehabilitate their image.

4.   These authors suggest so, pointing to such facts as MCI using Amway to sell long-distance services and IBM offering Internet training through a multilevel company called Big Planet.

5.   There are some multilevel companies that have enticed recruits with visions of riches earned with very little effort.