Both Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been reinvented over the years, but at the core of each is essentially the same devious deceit-paying new investors with money from old investors.

Ponzi schemes pay out early investors with money from later investors. They differ from pyramid schemes in that Ponzi schemes are presented as investments with large returns, rather than business ...

Securities regulators Wednesday worked to halt a pyramid scheme they said is being operated by people outside the U.S. and promoted on social media, promising unrealistic returns to investors. The ...

Many people still fall for new forms of network marketing, multi-level marketing (MLMs) and other organizations that, despite ...

I have also been told of polygraph machines, that is, lie detector machines, being used in franchise interviews, and of large ...