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The first pyramid scheme was literally a pyramid. Ancient Egyptians were ahead of the scam curve.

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Pyramid schemes are a modern kind of fraud and have nothing to do with Egyptian pyramids. The name comes from the shape of the recruitment structure, which has few people at the top and many at the bottom.

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