Knowing what to look for allows you to avoid joining a pyramid scheme.

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 ...

Kenyans protest after being conned by pyramid schemes. After waiting for years, the High Court on Thursday dashed the hopes of victims of multi-billion shilling pyramid schemes to recover their money.

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Thousands of Colombians have lost life savings in pyramid schemes that exploded in a wave of rioting and bankruptcies this month. The accused boss of another financial scheme has ...

The Government of New Zealand has previously funded Branislav Hock's research on pyramid schemes but not directly related to this article. The Government of New Zealand has previously funded research ...

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 ...