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 ...

A couple months ago, I was introduced into the world of blessing looms and detailed how this one specific blessing loom was an illegal pyramid scheme. Unfortunately, these schemes have been on the ...

Bridget Read shares an investigation into the tricks and sleights of hand used in multilevel marketing. Her new book is a history of multilevel marketing, or MLM.. and investigation into how most ...

When 23-year-old college graduate Julie was invited to a “girls night party” where the guests were told by a woman named Shawna from a company called Pure Romance that they could make big bucks ...

The sharp decline in Herbalife’s stock price (NYSE:HLF) to multi-year lows and Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman gasconading his “psychological short” bet against the shares triggered mixed reactions from ...

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 ...