Skeptic's Dictionary: Pyramid Schemes, Chain Letters and Ponzi Schemes
Defines these fraudulent systems of making money which require an endless stream of recruits for success.
Chain Letters
Description of chain letters, why people think they can work, why they can't work. Extensive links.
How Chain Letters Really Work
Describes how chain letter participants rarely, if ever, profit from them: Chain letters are carefully crafted business letters asking for contributions.
Pyramid Scams
Site describes how pyramid scams operate, how to identify them and avoid becoming a victim.
Chain Letters Are Not Legal
Postal Service judicial decision that debunks the claim that sending a "report" in exchange for cash makes a chain letter legal.
US Postal Service: Chain Letters
Describes illegality of chain letters.
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