What Is a Pyramid Scheme? A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent investment where participants make money primarily by recruiting new investors rather than from legitimate businesses. Technology and ...

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 ...

The malware operation, which infected over 700,000 computers globally (including around 200,000 in the US), was linked to $58 ...

The son of the President says that the Trump family went all-in on crypto out of necessity, not because it's an emerging ...

Forex is not a pyramid scheme. Forex trading is a legitimate global market where currencies are bought and sold based on supply and demand, and it operates through decentralized exchanges ...

The LSSC scam — an e-scooter “investment opportunity” allegedly from Hong Kong — is spreading rapidly across the United ...

“Get-rich-quick” schemes are one such trap. They’re also sometimes called ponzi or pyramid schemes. The schemes are a form of financial fraud. The people running them take money through deception: the ...

The same type of radar used by the pyramid researchers, Synthetic Aperture Radar or SAR, was coupled with artificial intelligence to discover a 5,000-year-old city beneath the desert in Dubai. Mr ...

Experts say financial illiteracy, lax regulations, greed, economic hardship make people susceptible to scam companies.

A 50-year-old Elk River woman invested thousands of dollars in Bitcoin. She never saw her money back, and Elk River police ...

Bridget Read shares an investigation into the tricks and sleights of hand used in multilevel marketing. Her new book is a history of multilevel marketing, or MLM.. and investigation into how most ...