pyramid scheme
Ponzi scheme

This is often done in the form of a pyramid scheme.

As for the financial system being like a pyramid scheme the point is well made.

A pyramid scheme is a way of making money that cannot continue very long.

It's a pyramid scheme but on paper it looks great.

For 60 years, Europe has put its trust in a pyramid scheme.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak about the growing international problem of pyramid schemes.

For this reason, pyramid schemes are illegal in many countries.

It has been called "the biggest pyramid scheme in history."

By the end of 1996, pyramid schemes reached their peak.

Second, you can report any suspect investment programs or potential pyramid schemes.

"It worked on the same premise as those pyramid schemes for making money," he said.

Despite officials' best efforts, however, pyramid schemes continue to thrive.

Assume a pyramid scheme in which each person recruits 10 new people.

He has been involved in criminal enterprises such as pyramid schemes.

Looks like you've been suckered in by a pyramid scheme.

It has also been allegedly engaged in a pyramid scheme.

Pyramid schemes now come in so many forms that they may be difficult to recognize immediately.

Michael did not attend college, having lost all his tuition money in a pyramid scheme.

That, of course, is what a pyramid scheme is all about.

The same as any good pyramid scheme, you always have to be enrolling people at the bottom.

Like any crime, a pyramid scheme requires means, motive and opportunity.

The company allegedly derived its income from a pyramid scheme.

A pyramid scheme, which is illegal in the Philippines, uses one person's money to pay another.

There was a classic pyramid scheme floating around twenty years ago.

"The ban wiped out both ethical companies and pyramid schemes."

Does that mean the system is not a Ponzi scheme?

The issue is how exactly this Ponzi scheme will stop going on.

Many of you may be familiar with Ponzi schemes reported in the international financial news.

In reality, the investment firm had been a Ponzi scheme.

Problem is its just another ponzi scheme waiting to blow up.

You have a kind of Ponzi scheme that constitutes the global economy.

It's life savings that have been lost because of this Ponzi scheme.

In reality it was nothing more than one elaborate Ponzi scheme.

He was not convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, the main charge.

He would have had to nurture the Ponzi scheme daily.

There's not enough space here to explain what a "Ponzi scheme" is.

This has been shown up as the over exposed ponzi scheme it is.

It doesn't mean the Ponzi scheme was a good thing in the first place.

One sad fact about real Ponzi schemes is that they do end neatly.

Her brother-in-law and sister got caught in a Ponzi scheme.

Shame on all those who are part of this whole, enormous, global Ponzi scheme.

"I've got my own little Ponzi scheme going," a distraught former executive told me last week.

So you might think that Ponzi schemes are mainly a historical curiosity.

That shelter turned out to be a Ponzi scheme.

This is the basis for many social phenomena, including the infamous Ponzi scheme.

So there's gotta be a Ponzi scheme behind all of this, right?

The plan could be a Ponzi scheme where money from later recruits pays off earlier ones.

A Ponzi scheme is a particular kind of fraud.

However, it was actually a front to attract investment for a massive Ponzi scheme.

And at present, science careers are a Ponzi scheme.