Unmasking the blessing scam! Is it just a pyramid scheme in disguise? Get the financial analysis of these 'get rich quick' ...

Both Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been reinvented over the years, but at the core of each is essentially the same devious deceit-paying new investors with money from old investors.

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 ...

Australian money manager John Hempton has called the battle between investor Bill Ackman and nutritional-supplement company Herbalife “hedge-fund porn.” There is indeed something vaguely obscene about ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you have been tagged by a friend on Facebook, inviting you to take part in the "Secret Sister" holiday gift exchange -- don't do it. The Better Business Bureau says it's a scam ...

Ponzi schemes pay out early investors with money from later investors. They differ from pyramid schemes in that Ponzi schemes are presented as investments with large returns, rather than business ...

A $300M crypto scandal in Spain explodes into politics, exposing hidden links between this latest scheme and a far right ...

SCRANTON – The Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section filed criminal charges Tuesday against Brian J. Murray, the local CEO, chairman, and principle of the bankrupt Murray Insurance Agency; his ...

I’m no sharpshooter, but there’s something on the sTens page that this blogger cannot abide. I love the Andrew Walsh Pyramid of Success as much as the next sTen. But it’s not a legitimate meme until ...