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Pam Bishop persuades siblings Harper and Debra to join the Wheel, a multilevel marketing scheme targeting women looking to get rich quick.—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025 Because my goal in investing in bitcoin isn’t to get rich quick.—Taesik Yoon, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025 Imagine a risk-taking partner telling you about a get rich quick scheme.—Bola Sol, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2024 The rise of financial sextortion has been linked to crime networks in Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire, where the tactic has been promoted as a method to get rich quick.—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 24 June 2024 Following that advice can bite you in some big ways – looking at you, get rich quick scheme.—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024 India’s booming stock market is attracting millions of individual investors hoping to get rich quick.—Shefali Anand, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023 One day they are given a chance to get rich quick but have less than 24 hours to pull off the perfect con.—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023 Those schemes have been boosted by the rise of cryptocurrency as both a tempting way to get rich quick and also as a mechanism for scammers to move large amounts of cash in ways that are almost impossible to retrieve.—Kevin Collier, NBC News, 2 July 2023
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