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Thousands of people were tricked into joining an illegal pyramid scheme in Texas that targeted African-Americans and lost more than $10 million, according to federal authorities.. LaShonda Moore ...
Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign paid a firm to “mask connections” to an alleged pyramid scheme linked to a secretive sect she grew up in, according to a report.. The Senate Intelligence Committee ...
Elite Activity is the name used for several pyramid schemes typically targeting Christian churches and their congregations. Elite Activity solicited cash gifts of $100 to start, required participants to sign up two other people, required each of those two to sign up two more, and promised payouts of between $800 and $48,000.
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.
The shadow government, also referred to as cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government, is a family of theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resides not only with publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions.
Pyramid schemes, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are a type of fraud where participants profit almost exclusively through recruiting other people to join their programs.
The Intercept called multi-level marketing a form of pyramid scheme and lamented the authors' recommendation of the tactic. [1] San Antonio Express-News was critical of the contradictory advice imparted in the book.
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