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pyramid schemeのWordNet

  • 1名詞

    意味

    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; 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

    勧誘された者が自分を勧誘した者に支払いを行うと同時に、自身が勧誘した者からの支払いを受け取ることを期待する詐欺的計画;新規勧誘者の数が階層的な支払い構造を維持できなくなると計画は破綻し、ほとんどの参加者が投じた金を失う

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