as in pyramid scheme
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To hide his scheme, Mandel allegedly used funds from one production company to pay expenses incurred by another, in the style of a Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.
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City News Service, Daily News, 10 Sep. 2025
Just as a Ponzi scheme collapses without sufficient cash inflows from new investors, Ponzi finance collapses without sufficient price appreciation for the asset being financed.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The scheme came to an end when a whistleblowing director tipped off the FBI that the company had become a Ponzi scheme.
—Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025
Allen compared the crypto industry to a Ponzi scheme that depends on bringing in more people to prolong high asset values.
—Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 9 June 2025
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City News Service, Daily News, 10 Sep. 2025
Just as a Ponzi scheme collapses without sufficient cash inflows from new investors, Ponzi finance collapses without sufficient price appreciation for the asset being financed.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The scheme came to an end when a whistleblowing director tipped off the FBI that the company had become a Ponzi scheme.
—Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025
Allen compared the crypto industry to a Ponzi scheme that depends on bringing in more people to prolong high asset values.
—Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Ponzi scheme
pyramid scheme
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Traffickers charge high fees and force victims to recruit friends and family in exchange for improved conditions, furthering a pyramid scheme model, Interpol said.—
Ope Adetayo,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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This included a new pyramid scheme, so to speak, that flipped the longstanding traditional food pyramid upside down, point downwards— seemingly to make a new point.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Ponzi scheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Ponzi%20scheme. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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