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Pyramid Scheme

An investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to original “investors” (the scheme organizers) or early entrants from...

Ponzi Scheme

An investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to original “investors” (the scheme organizers) or early entrants from...

High Yield Investment Program

A Ponzi scheme by which original "investors" (instigators of the fraud) claim to offer prospect investors, who invest some cash...

HYIP

An abbreviation for high yield investment program which is essentially a Ponzi scheme by which original "investors" (instigators of the...