n05908000
| type | n |
| lex_filenum | 09 |
| def | a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit |
| def | when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in |
| Outgoing links | |
| Hypernym | scheme, strategy |
| Incoming links | |
| Hyponym | scheme, strategy |
Click for the XML entry