| pyramid scheme | (n) a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in |
| 鼠講;ねずみ講 | [ねずみこう, nezumikou] (n) pyramid scheme [Add to Longdo] |
| 無限連鎖講 | [むげんれんさこう, mugenrensakou] (n) (See 鼠講) pyramid scheme [Add to Longdo] |