A pyramid scheme is a business model which, rather than earning money (or providing returns on investments) by sale of legitimate products to an end consumer...

traditional pyramid scheme, including in China. In jurisdictions where MLM companies have not been made illegal, many illegal pyramid schemes attempt to...

Albania was in large part triggered by the failure of multiple pyramid schemes. These schemes, which grew to an unprecedented scale relative to the country's...

investments. Caritas (Ponzi scheme) Lyonya Golubkov Pyramid schemes in Albania The PyraMMMid Stock Generation, yet another financial scheme by Mavrodi, calling...

these schemes from Ponzi schemes: In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a pyramid scheme...

Retrieved 22 November 2023. "This Billionaire Just Called Bitcoin a 'Pyramid Scheme'". Fortune. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved...

The Bosnian pyramid claims are pseudoarchaeological theories put forward to explain the formation of a cluster of natural hills in the area of Visoko...

The airplane game, also known as the plane game, is a style of pyramid scheme first recorded in the 1980s in North America and later Western Europe. The...

in 2015 by the FTC for engaging in deceptive practices and being a pyramid scheme. The company, based in Tempe, Arizona, was founded in 2004 by Benson...

Chinese-Canadian businessman and politician, former theatre director, and former pyramid scheme operator. Gong served as Deputy Director of the China Council for the...

other agencies to classify companies as pyramid schemes and to investigate whether MLMs are pyramid schemes. The amendment would have disbarred the Treasury...

institutions such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for alleged pyramid scheme practices. The company has paid tens of millions of dollars to settle...

Washington State Attorney General in January 2019 accused LuLaRoe of being a pyramid scheme. LuLaRoe was incorporated on May 1, 2013. The company's name was derived...

company was sued by the Federal Trade Commission for being an illegal pyramid scheme. The company lost the suit in 2012, and lost appeal in June 2014. In...

a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. In 2014, she founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin. Inspired by the success of Bitcoin, she claimed that...

maker of weight-loss and vitamin supplements, calling the company a "pyramid scheme". A few months after Ackman's initial comments, billionaire investor...

business model of Forever Living's distribution system to that of a pyramid scheme. In 1983, the company was named No. 6 on Inc. Magazine's annual Inc...

pyramid scheme". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2021-04-21. Singletary, Michelle. "Perspective | Some Black promoters of illegal pyramid schemes are...

supplements. The company has been alleged to have fraudulently operated a pyramid scheme; under an SEC agreement in 2016 the compensation and other benefits...

Ponzi scheme due to its organisational structure of paying early investors using money obtained from newer ones. It was also a pyramid scheme due to...

The Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993 (Malay: Akta Jualan Langsung dan Skim Anti-Piramid 1993), is a Malaysian laws which enacted to provide...

Mufareh, and his wife Asmahan Mufareh, accusing the company of being a pyramid scheme, presenting itself as a multi-level marketing organization but having...

Telexfree mentor is an "expert" in Pyramid Schemes". Veja Abril Magazine. Retrieved December 9, 2013. "Pyramid Scheme Owner promotes Telexfree" (in Portuguese)...

venture that the New York Attorney General accused of having been a pyramid scheme; Raniere signed a consent order in 1996 in which he denied any wrongdoing...

writer. He serves as president of Pyramid Scheme Alert, a consumer organization to confront the abuses of pyramid schemes. FitzPatrick was born in Charlotte...

programme was a social media pyramid scheme. Tate described the claim that Hustler's University's operated as a pyramid scheme as false. After Hustler's...

25 "Pyramid Scheme" Peter Rida Michail Caldwell Tanner February 15, 2016 (2016-02-15) 131 1.89 Beast Boy makes lots of money due to a pyramid scheme and...

resembled a traditional stokvel, they considered its structure to be a pyramid scheme in the style of the 1980s US "airplane game". Rotating savings and credit...

accused him of using Dogecoin as an unregistered security to operate a pyramid scheme. Meme coins have seen a resurgence following Donald Trump's victory...

directed by Ted Braun. It investigates the allegation that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme, and follows Bill Ackman's short investment in Herbalife, which is ostensibly...