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A crypto trading platform that recruited users through prayer circles was a pyramid scheme that made $1 billion for its 'Reverand CEO,' lawsuit says

NovaTechFx, once one of the fastest-growing financial platforms, now faces a lawsuit that says it s…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Elements of private equity firms resemble Ponzi schemes, Europe's largest asset manager says

"Eventually there will be casualties, but that might not be for three, four, or five years," Amundi…

Brian Evans   


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Bill Ackman says he finds short-seller's Adani Group report 'highly credible' – and notes similarities to 'pyramid scheme' Herbalife

Hindenburg Research accused the Indian conglomerate Adani Group of "brazen stock manipulation", in …

George Glover   


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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says Terra's algorithm sounds like the 'crypto version of a pyramid scheme'

Ackman tweeted his disapproval of Terra, suggesting that the crypto industry should "self-regulate"…

Cheryl Teh   


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Experts say LuLaRoe gets $4.75 million slap on the wrist, as company eludes admission of any wrong doing

"It's not over leggings that got wet. It's over loss. It's over lies," MLM expert Robert Fitzpatric…

Áine Cain   


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As Ghislaine Maxwell's trial begins, prosecutors say she ran 'a pyramid scheme of abuse' with Jeffrey Epstein

Prosecutors have accused Ghislaine Maxwell of running an elaborate child-sex-trafficking scheme wit…

Jacob Shamsian   


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TikTok is banning content that promotes pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing companies

"We do not permit anyone to exploit our platform to take advantage of the trust of users and bring …

Allana Akhtar   


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Inside Trump's relationship with a multi-level marketing company that helped give him a financial lifeline

Over 10 years, President Donald Trump got $8.8 million from ACN, an MLM company he featured on "The…

Yelena Dzhanova   


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'I build pyramids, man': Federal court shuts down alleged pyramid scheme selling 'healthy' mushroom coffee and freezes executives' assets

"Success By Health was shut down and put out of business by the FTC without due process, due cause …

Hayley Peterson   


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The most devastating takeaways from Netflix's new docuseries on Jeffrey Epstein and his 'molestation pyramid scheme'

Epstein's victims said they reported the sex trafficking ring to the FBI in 1996 — a decade before …

Taylor Nicole Rogers   


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Heavy drinking, sex tapes, and a pyramid scheme: Yelp insiders speak out about the company's high-pressure sales culture

Yelp's sprawling sales organization is part boiler-room, part fraternity house, and infused with a …

Rob Price   


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Duo in India caught carrying out ₹12 billion multi-level marketing scheme

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, India confiscated ₹2 bill…

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The 'secret sister' gift exchange on Facebook is actually an illegal pyramid scheme

It spreads via a Facebook post advertising the exchange (36 gifts in exchange for 1!) and asking si…

Rob Price   


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Washington Attorney General accuses LuLaRoe of operating an illegal 'pyramid scheme' in new lawsuit

The company's "marketing and sales activities, misleading income and lifestyle claims, emphasis on …

Hayley Peterson   


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Epstein trafficked and abused dozens of young girls at his private island in the Caribbean in a 'trafficking pyramid scheme,' a new lawsuit says

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, Denise George. It al…

Michelle Mark   


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ACKMAN: Actually, Herbalife is a pyramid scheme

The activist investor has long framed Herbalife as a fraudulent company, placing a $1 billion short…

Rachael Levy   


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On TikTok, a multi-level marketing scheme is hawking dubious diet supplements and targeting young women

Dozens of women are shilling It Works smoothies and gummies on TikTok, but experts say they are unl…

Lindsay Dodgson,Rachel Hosie   


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SEC charges 11 people for running a crypto Ponzi scheme that raised $300 million from retail investors worldwide

A defendant known as Lola Ferrari was among those who created Forsage, a website used to bilk milli…

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JPMorgan's quant guru says cryptocurrencies have 'some parallels to fraudulent pyramid schemes'

So while JPMorgan isn't going as far as to call the end of these increasingly tenuous market trends…

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