Talk:Operation: False Profit/@comment-28771495-20170217230340

No, actually, it's a Ponzi scheme. If it were a pyramid scheme, it would require its members (i.e. the players) to recruit additional members. That's how a pyramid scheme works: members pay to join system, then they recruit additional members in order to make their money, without the system actually generating much, if any, income/profit itself.
 * "Nef Anyo's scam is effectively a Pyramid scheme, where Anyo encourages unaware people to give offerings to the Void with the promise of repaying them, whilst secretly pocketing the money for himself."

A Ponzi scheme is as you described: a "fake investment" scheme, if you will, where you're giving your money to someone to invest, but instead, they just take that money as their own profit. Bernie Madoff was infamous for this.