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5. A woman who wanted money to invest in a pyramid scheme faked her own kidnapping to squeeze some cash from her parents.
6. Pyramid selling groups are well organized and some operate under the disguise of corporations or chain stores.
7. Gao said his ministry and the SAIC are proposing a revision of relevant laws that offer clearer provisions and heavier punishments for pyramid selling crimes.
8. pyramid
8. Fake investments and pyramid investment schemes have become common during China's transition from a planned economy to a free market.
9. Zhang said pyramid selling disturbs economic order and triggers serious criminal crimes and mass incidents.
10. China's top legislature approved a number of criminal law amendments last month, which imposed penalty on the people who organize pyramid selling.
noun
1.
1. (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases
2. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
verb
1. increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
2. arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
3. pyramid
3. use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
4.
4. enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts