Sentence examples for selling scheme from inspiring English sources

It is treated in many countries like an elaborate pyramid selling scheme and the reasons for this are obvious.

But last Thursday night the FBI arrested the 70-year-old and charged him with running an elaborate pyramid selling scheme.

A Ponzi scheme, named after US financial trickster, Charles Ponzi, is a kind of pyramid selling scheme, where investment returns rely on money coming in from new joiners.

"There is so much drug debt because the market is a pyramid selling scheme," says Woods. "Dealers are always looking to expand sales in order to make more money.

Two years ago Nicholson told MPs: "We are not in the business of selling schemes.

David Gauke, the exchequer secretary, said: "This case is another example of why taxpayers should not fall for the promises of promoters selling schemes that are all too often too good to be true.

Although pyramid selling schemes, in which improbably high rates of return on bonds are financed by the next lot of sales, are against the law, nobody involved in "Women Empowering Women" is either buying or selling.

Team is one step ahead of all these juice selling schemes.

The case stemmed in part from oversight of OptionsXpress, a firm now owned by Charles Schwab, which was accused by the S.E.C. of engaging in an abusive naked short-selling scheme, or selling shares before borrowing them first.

But imagine selling a scheme like this to the Spanish government.If not public, could private transfers play a role instead?

However, it can be argued that selling the scheme to an insurance company can provide members with greater security.