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 ...

Most of us have probably heard of Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes. If you are familiar with these terms, you are likely ...

The FINANCIAL — An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging a U.S. citizen residing in Canada for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme under the name 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle LLC (8FDL ...

Pyramid schemes are nothing new. For example, in the 1920s, Charles Ponzi promised investors high returns on postal reply coupons, using the money from new investors to pay returns to earlier ...

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 ...

a pyramid scheme in the hands of a fraudster. Fans of the old horror movie Poltergeist 2 remember the classic line "They're back" and so it is with the classic Secret Sister scam which returns each ...

Tupperware is among the best-known American multi-level marketing schemes, which promise big pay-outs but often leave their adherents bankrupt. A new book details how the industry came to dominate so ...

Multilevel marketing (MLM) can provide an opportunity to start a business, but not all of them are legitimate. Here is how to tell if something is a scam.