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Select's editorial team works independently to review financial products and write articles we think our readers will find useful. We may receive a commission when you click on links for products from our affiliate partners. Over the last several years, a number of personal finance apps have made their way into the market — and onto our phone screens — and as a personal finance reporter, many of them caught my attention. But I'm not one to download just anything without doing my research and reading reviews. So when I finally decided to go ahead and download the Digit app, I knew I was making a well-informed decision. Digit is an app that encourages people to save more money. It connects to your checking account and automatically saves small, random amounts of cash that it holds in a savings account until you decide how you want to use it. You can use the app to create as many savings buckets as you want (think: emergency fund, vacation, dog, home down payment, etc.), and the a...

You know the companies—Amway, Herbalife , NuSkin , Mary Kay— even newcomers like Visalus . They promote the opportunity to strike it rich, or even just make a little extra money div > div.group > p:first-child"> But are they pyramid schemes? (Read More: From High Energy Clubs to Dashed Dreams: Herbalife Tales. ) That's the question that has followed the multi-level marketing industry for years. These companies, which offer the opportunity to make money by selling products and recruiting other distributors, insist they're not pyramid schemes. The trouble, according to Joe Mariano, president of the Direct Selling Association, the industry's trade group, is that "there ...

This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. You're reading Entrepreneur United States, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Have you ever been invited to participate in investment or savings chains such as the Flower of Abundance ? Beware, this is a scam. Depositphotos.com The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services ( Condusef ) has constantly warned about this format of pyramid schemes or Ponzi . During her participation in the MoneyFest 2021 personal finance festival, Karem Suárez , a Colombian YouTubera specializing in personal finance with more than 100,000 subscribers, shared five guidelines to identify businesses that promise to be rich overnight. According to the specialist, you should suspect an "investment" if: 1. They have a bad...

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Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday's ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below.  A.J. writes: I am concerned about a scheme currently being promoted in the UK and around the world, called CashFX.  It is based in Panama and tries to give legitimacy by saying funds are invested through a licensed foreign exchange broker called EverFX, but the main way people are encouraged to make money is by introducing others.    Claim: Promoter Richard Maude, who was rewarded with this Porsche 911, says the licensed firm EverFX is a 'partner' Tony Hetherington replies:  CashFX is barely a year old but it has learned to be cautious in what it puts in writing. It attracted investors by saying they will share in bonuses based on pooled trading in foreign exchange markets, but it...

Reporting by Wakil-ur-Rehman The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan or SECP banned on Friday two more companies for running illegal schemes, duping the public into investing in illegal business ventures. The companies that were banned are International Business Solutions and Top Notch World Technology. People have been warned against falling for similar monetary traps. B4U Global and SR Global had already been banned by the SECP. According to a media release by the SECP, these companies were running investment schemes and collecting funds illegally without holding any license for doing so. "Just getting a company registered with SECP does not necessarily mean it can collect public money for investment schemes," the SECp press release stated. According to Section 301 of the Companies Act of 2017, collecting money for using it in referral marketing, MML, Pyramid and Ponzi schemes is illegal. ...

Daniel Abraham, 51, is nothing if not prolific. Chatting one morning from his home in Albuquerque, N.Mex., via Zoom, he's already checked off breakfast with the kid, responded to emails, and written 500 words. Abraham's 15-year writing career spans science fiction and fantasy, and he's established himself as a genre workhorse with a résumé that impresses. He's written four series under three pen names, adapted a comic book, and done a Star Wars one-off, and he boasts writing and producing credits on the six-season TV adaptation of his bestselling space opera, the Expanse series (written under the pen name James S.A. Corey, with coauthor Ty Franck). He's a bestseller—Orbit, which publishes the Expanse, says the series has sold more than four million copies to date—who's also won a Locus for Best Novel (for 2014's Abandon's Gate ) and a Hugo (last year for the Expanse). His final entry in the nine-book Expanse series, Leviathan Falls , is publishing...

☽ Trending News May 28, 2021 by: Carmen MacBeth MLM companies have been the bane of a lot of people's existence long before TikTok was a thing. Once you hit a certain age, half the people you went to high school with either try to sell you LuLaRoe or Amway products. Worse, they may try to get you to come to a seminar so you can sell MLM products and sink your hard-earned cash into a "business".  However, while oth...

The Pyramid Scheme is a bar, a music venue, and a pinball arcade rolled into one hot spot in the Heartside Neighbourhood in downtown Grand Rapids.  As The Pyramid Scheme was unable to celebrate its 10 year anniversary in April 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the venue will now be raising a glass during their sold-out show on Oct. 20 featuring performances from The Menzingers, The Dirty Nil, and Worriers.   With their cheers to 10 years has come some time for reflection for co-owner Tami VandenBerg.  She and her brother, Jeff VandenBerg, had originally opened a neighborhood pub called The Meanwhile on Wealthy Street in Grand Rapids.  The two were very interested in live music, but Tami VandenBerg said the pub was a bit too small, and the neighbors were not very enthusiastic about the idea. She said as soon as the pub turned over a profit, they bought their current residence and the idea for The Pyramid Scheme was launched into acti...

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In November, as Reno County, Kansas, weathered its worst-yet wave of COVID-19, an unusual guest took the lectern at a county commission meeting. The woman, dressed in sunny yellow, described herself as a local mother there to discuss health in the pandemic era. "I'm also privileged to represent the top two percent of the world's largest essential oil company, doTERRA, which means 'gift of the earth,'" she said in a presentation previously reported by the Kansas Reflector . "My job is to empower people to use safe, natural, 100 percent pure essential oils to manage their families' needs proactively." She began to continue, only to be cut off. "Ma'am, if this is an advertisement, I think you need to do something else," Commissioner Ron Hirst said. But Mark Steffen, another county commissioner, intervened. "It's not an advertisement," he said. "This is not an advertisement. I asked her to come to talk about other opt...

(MoneyWatch) Mary Kay products are sold primarily for women, by women. But is the cosmetics giant good for women? Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, a reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, says no. In the August issue of Harper's Magazine, she contends that Mary Kay, founded in 1963 with an initial $5,000 investment by Mary Kay Ash, is less about empowering women than luring them into what the story calls a "pink pyramid scheme" that exploits its salesforce. Sole-Smith said that under the company's wholesale business model, the company's sales staff is heavily encouraged to buy the products they then sell to customers. For Mary Kay's "consultants," the financial returns on that investment are often minimal, she said, and typically a far cry from the hefty income that the company wants women to believe they can earn peddling its wares. Indeed, while Mary Kary claims annual sales of roughly $3 billion, its salespeop...