But what if you flip it? The inverted pyramid structure, which places clients at the top and C-suite leaders at the bottom, isn’t a new invention, but businesses that haven’t yet taken ...

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 win attracted attention from across the industry, as it was the first time since the 1970s that a direct-selling company defeated the FTC’s pyramid scheme claims in a court trial.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed a lawsuit against 11 people accused of creating and promoting a crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme known as "Forsage." The fraudulent scheme ...

Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they pumped up the price of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin into a $258 billion “pyramid scheme.” Investors who lost tens of thousands ...