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Recent Examples of pyramid scheme
Traffickers charge high fees and force victims to recruit friends and family in exchange for improved conditions, furthering a pyramid scheme model, Interpol said.
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Ope Adetayo,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
The North Texas couple behind a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme who targeted the African-American community has been found guilty by a federal jury in Sherman.
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Brian Womack,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
Chinese authorities have accused the group of being a pyramid scheme and a cult.
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
The Tuesday release highlighted an incident with Cambodian users urging people to enlist in a rent-a-scooter pyramid scheme with an initial text message generated by ChatGPT.
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Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
6 Aug. 2025
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Ope Adetayo,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
The North Texas couple behind a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme who targeted the African-American community has been found guilty by a federal jury in Sherman.
—
Brian Womack,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
Chinese authorities have accused the group of being a pyramid scheme and a cult.
—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
The Tuesday release highlighted an incident with Cambodian users urging people to enlist in a rent-a-scooter pyramid scheme with an initial text message generated by ChatGPT.
—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyramid scheme
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Other agencies and investigations Previous reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Epstein had been named in an investigation in the 1990s into Towers Financial, a notorious Ponzi scheme, but was never charged.
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Related Stories Horwitz is serving a 20-year sentence over what federal prosecutors described as a $650 million Ponzi scheme.
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The Civil War, in his view, was another elaborate shell game.
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The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.
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“Pyramid scheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyramid%20scheme. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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