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The "Captain" (blue) is paid when 8 "passengers" have arrived at the bottom of the pyramid. (Below the Captain are two "Co-Pilots", below them four "Crew".) The airplane game , also known as the plane game , is a style of pyramid scheme first recorded in the 1980s in North America and later Western Europe.
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A pyramid scheme is a business model which, rather than earning money (or providing returns on investments) by sale of legitimate products to an end consumer, mainly earns money by recruiting new members with the promise of payments (or services).
The "chain" is an exponentially growing pyramid (a tree graph) that cannot be sustained indefinitely. Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient.
According to one report he was convicted of running a pyramid scheme in Arizona in 1985 and released after five years in prison. [7] Another reported him sentenced to seven years in prison in 1987, after being convicted along with Edward Rector, on charges of conspiracy, fraud and operating a pyramid scheme. [3]
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The scheme used a system that rewarded users for recruiting more under them. [188] The Central Bank of Sri Lanka had warned the public that MTFE operated in a manner similar to a pyramid scheme. [189] In reality, MTFE did not actually carry out trades. Instead, the bot fabricated profits and losses to make the platform seem legitimate.