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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

said Vi walks "a controversial line between legal direct selling and pyramid scheme." Vi was investigated by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation...

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...

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

lawsuit details allegations of fraud and abuse and charges of being a pyramid scheme; as well as exploitation of its recruits, conducting illegal human experiments...

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...

the entity. New York State filed a lawsuit alleging that CBI was a pyramid scheme. In 1994, Raniere created National Health Network, a multi-level seller...

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...

Robert T. Edwards, was arrested in July 1990 for allegedly running a pyramid scheme. FundAmerica filed for bankruptcy in August 1990 In late August 1990...