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 ...

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a legitimate multilevel marketing plan (MLM) and an illegal pyramid scheme - even for the agencies that investigate them. If you are considering ...

Most Americans have been aware for some time that multi-level marketing schemes are bad — either through recent books or documentaries like LuLaRich. But did you know exactly how bad? Bridget Read, ...

Every year, thousands of Americans lose money participating in multi-level marketing (MLM). So, last year, when a new business idea that promised to correct MLM's sins bubbled up on Instagram and ...

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 ...

“Wanna swim in cash?” The first season of the podcast “The Dream” starts by asking the listener this question. This is the ploy many people who sell the fantasy of wealth for a multi-level marketing ...

Mary Kay isn’t the only pyramid scheme out there that targets stay-at-home wives and mothers looking for quick cash, an emotional support system, and — perhaps most of all — empowerment. Within the ...

Founded in 2001, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing was a Lexington, Kentucky-based company that used a multi-level marketing approach to sell consumer goods and services. However, in 2013 the Federal Trade ...

One of the top contenders for Kamala Harris’ running mate is a former NASA astronaut — who unfortunately, as a newly-resurfaced video shows, used to hawk sketchy nutritional supplements. As Washington ...

The CFTC alleged a South African fraudster got thousands of people to invest billions of dollars in bitcoin in a commodity pool that was all a big lie. Image: Wit Olszewski (Shutterstock) The ...