Tupperware is among the best-known American multi-level marketing schemes, which promise big pay-outs but often leave their adherents bankrupt. A new book details how the industry came to dominate so ...

A Ponzi scheme is a type of financial fraud in which the "success" of the entity is propped up by paying returns to initial investors from the money invested by subsequent investors. A pyramid scheme ...

Scammers want you to believe they're offering you a legitimate money-making opportunity. Seniors are seen as prime targets due to the potential that they have money saved for retirement. If an ...

Scammers want you to believe they're offering you a legitimate money-making opportunity. Seniors are seen as prime targets due to the potential that they have money saved for retirement. If an ...

Have you ever heard of someone who claimed to make a lot of money by investing in a new cryptocurrency or a trading program that promised high returns? Did they also tell you that you could join them ...

Being able to sit in your PJs all day while you work from home with a schedule you set for yourself sounds great, right? Today, there are more and more opportunities to work for a multi-level ...

Scammers want you to believe they're offering you a legitimate money-making opportunity. Seniors are seen as prime targets due to the potential that they have money saved for retirement. If an ...

a pyramid scheme in the hands of a fraudster. Fans of the old horror movie Poltergeist 2 remember the classic line "They're back" and so it is with the classic Secret Sister scam which returns each ...

A Fort Collins man determined to be one of three founding members of a nation-wide pyramid scheme that took more than $23 million from its investors was sentenced recently to prison time and millions ...

The cost of living in Malaysia isn’t exactly slowing down. From groceries to Grab rides, everything feels a little more expensive. So it’s no surprise that more and more Malaysians are jumping into ...

The Government of New Zealand has previously funded Branislav Hock's research on pyramid schemes but not directly related to this article. The Government of New Zealand has previously funded research ...

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