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Recent Examples of pyramid scheme
Such enterprises invite non-salaried workers to sell goods and then also earn commissions by recruiting more salespeople; the Federal Trade Commission has over the years outlined subtle legal differences between MLMs and pyramid schemes.
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Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
Among them, pyramid schemes, membership fee fakes, credit repair cons, dubious health offers, fictitious diploma schools and illegitimate gaming services.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Mia Love, Daughter of Haitian Immigrants, Will Be GOP's First Black Woman in Congress
Love served two terms in the House of Representatives and notably worked on bills focused on banking regulation, pyramid schemes and immigration.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
Among them, pyramid schemes, membership fee fakes, credit repair cons, dubious health offers, fictitious diploma schools and illegitimate gaming services.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Mia Love, Daughter of Haitian Immigrants, Will Be GOP's First Black Woman in Congress
Love served two terms in the House of Representatives and notably worked on bills focused on banking regulation, pyramid schemes and immigration.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyramid scheme
Noun
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By 2021 the company was running as a Ponzi scheme, the complaint said, even as Frost withdrew increasing amounts of money.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
11 July 2025
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Georgia officials are investigating a Georgia businessman and GOP supporter accused of perpetrating a Ponzi scheme defrauding hundreds of investors out of more than $140 million, and using some of the money for political donations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Without clear policy guardrails, independent verification, and ethical use, carbon capture risks becoming a shell game, boosting ESG optics while emissions continue unchecked.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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This is a shell game — follow the ball as the three cups rotate.—
Alexander Ooms,
Denver Post,
27 May 2025
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“Pyramid scheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyramid%20scheme. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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