Conspiracy theories have a lot in common with multi-level marketing schemes, in the sense that all of the worst people you know from high school post about them on Facebook and try to get other people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each time there's a recession, recruitment efforts ratchet up for multilevel marketers, often targeting the newly unemployed or underemployed. I was reminded of that when a former co-worker posted on ...

A couple months ago, I was introduced into the world of blessing looms and detailed how this one specific blessing loom was an illegal pyramid scheme. Unfortunately, these schemes have been on the ...

The verdict will make influencers more careful with advertising contracts The history of the three pyramid schemes dates back to early 2019, when the alleged mastermind behind the whole operation, ...

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 ...

Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Nethikumara on Wednesday (29) ordered the re-remand of seven suspects, including the Managing ...

BISHKEK -- A doomed pyramid scheme has again fooled hundreds of people into thinking they could earn unreasonably high profits very easily. Several people have been arrested in connection with what ...

Derek Saul has covered markets for the Forbes news team since 2021. U.S. authorities charged 11 people in an alleged international cryptocurrency Ponzi and pyramid scheme that conned millions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Vivaldi has become the latest browser maker to take a stand ...

Riaan van Rooyen, one of the liquidators appointed to the Mirror Trading International (MTI) estate, was taken to hospital by ambulance and declared dead on Tuesday, 16 September 2025. Little is known ...