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Table of Contents:

  • Lessons from Enron - 1
  • From Swindle to
    Sales Model - 4
  • All Over the Country - 7
  • Popular Pyramids - 9
  • Women Scamming
    Women - 11
  • Women's Pyramid Scheme Progression,
    also called "Gifting" Schemes (chart) - 13
  • Product-based Pyramid Schemes - 15
  • Perverse Proportions of a Top-Loaded
    Pyramid Pay
    Plan (chart)- 18
  • The American Pyramid
    Scheme Industry- 20
  • Pyramid Scheme: New American
    Business Mode - 23
  • The Legalization of Pyramid
    Sales Schemes - 25
  • States Legalize Pyramid Schemes - 29
  • Recruiting without
    Retailing- 34
  • Sales Model or Recruitment
    Scheme (graphic)- 38
  • Saturation - 39
  • "Opportunity of
    a Lifetime" - 42
  • The Pyramid Scheme
    Lobby - 46
  • Spectacle, Seduction and the
    Cult of the
    Pyramid Scheme - 50
  • Pyramid Power and Other Abuses - 56
  • The Silence of the Federal Trade Commission - 59
  • Key Sources and
    References - 62
  • To Order Additional
    Copies- 63

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