2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.02.011
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Decision-making and vulnerability in a pyramid scheme fraud

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“…In particular, those pursuing business or economics degrees may see this type of opportunity as more in line with their skills and interests. We capture self‐reported degree of religiosity using a question from the Pew Religious Landscape Study (Pew Research Center ) for two reasons: MLM often appeals to religious consumers (Bromley ; Luca ) and religiosity has been found to play a role in consumer vulnerability to financial fraud (Bosley et al ; Bosley and Knorr ; Consumer Fraud Research Group ).…”
Section: Experimental Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In particular, those pursuing business or economics degrees may see this type of opportunity as more in line with their skills and interests. We capture self‐reported degree of religiosity using a question from the Pew Religious Landscape Study (Pew Research Center ) for two reasons: MLM often appeals to religious consumers (Bromley ; Luca ) and religiosity has been found to play a role in consumer vulnerability to financial fraud (Bosley et al ; Bosley and Knorr ; Consumer Fraud Research Group ).…”
Section: Experimental Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is possible that prior exposure validates the MLM business opportunity and increases interest and/or expectations or, alternatively, reduces expectations and interest. Bosley et al () found that state fairgoers were more likely to invest money in a risky recruitment‐based scheme if they had prior exposure to such schemes through friends or family, but no direct personal experience. The authors posit that individuals might be aware of a peer's participation but not be aware of that person's outcome, prompting imitation of behavior.…”
Section: Experimental Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Intuitively, there is less likely to be sympathy with the less infirm elderly who make mistakes. Bosley et al (2018) found something similar in pyramid scheme frauds, finding a correlation in:…”
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confidence: 85%
“…If individuals' heuristic measurements are based on non-relevant stored information, they can be misled in judging the legitimacy of investment opportunities. The optimal decision-making needed may exceed the investor's processing capabilities, and therefore available heuristics are the quickest solution (Bosley et al, 2018;Payne et al, 1988). Humans are adaptive and their actions and behaviour is malleable (Simon, 1990), thus, some might be victimised due to the manipulation of their gut feeling, whilst others might fall victim due to other factors, such as a propensity to take risks (Van Wyk and Benson, 1997).…”
Section: Forgery Techniques Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Omnitrition, 79 F.3 d , 782 (описана система вознаграждений, не привязанная к продажам товара конечным потребителям, поскольку она «основана на предлагаемой розничной цене товара, заказанного у компании Omnitrition, а не реально проданного потребителям»). 28 См. там же (отмечено, что щедрые вознаграждения за привлечение новых участников стимулируют концентрироваться на этой стороне бизнеса, «в результате чего вряд ли появятся реальные возможности для розничных продаж» (цитируется по Koscot Interplanetary, Inc., 86 F.T.…”
Section: честная игра: законные млм-компании и их преимуществаunclassified