The Government of New Zealand has previously funded Branislav Hock's research on pyramid schemes but not directly related to this article. The Government of New Zealand has previously funded research ...

Conspiracy theories have a lot in common with multi-level marketing schemes, in the sense that all of the worst people you know from high school post about them on Facebook and try to get other people ...

People are being warned to watch out for so-called 'pyramid' schemes as unemployment continues to surge in the wake of a second coronavirus outbreak. In the past 12 months, Brits have lost almost ...

Riaan van Rooyen, one of the liquidators appointed to the Mirror Trading International (MTI) estate, was taken to hospital by ambulance and declared dead on Tuesday, 16 September 2025. Little is known ...

Have you ever heard of someone who claimed to make a lot of money by investing in a new cryptocurrency or a trading program that promised high returns? Did they also tell you that you could join them ...

Scammers want you to believe they're offering you a legitimate money-making opportunity. Seniors are seen as prime targets due to the potential that they have money saved for retirement. If an ...

I have also been told of polygraph machines, that is, lie detector machines, being used in franchise interviews, and of large ...

Scammers want you to believe they're offering you a legitimate money-making opportunity. Seniors are seen as prime targets due to the potential that they have money saved for retirement. If an ...

Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla were sued in federal court Thursday over claims that Musk directly “manipulated” the price of Dogecoin in a deliberate “crypto pyramid scheme” conducted over Twitter.

Your special on Scottish independence argues that without continued immigration from Europe and beyond, Scotland will find it difficult to support an ageing population (31 May, p 12). The same claim ...