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13–15 September

Modern financial pyramids disguise themselves as GameFi

Financial pyramids, once associated with 1990s scams, continue to exist but have changed form. Modern schemes disguise themselves as investment offers, particularly in the GameFi format, where players can earn real money by completing tasks in online games.

In brief

  • Financial pyramids have not disappeared, only changed form
  • Modern schemes disguise themselves as GameFi
  • GameFi combines games and finance
  • Players can earn by completing tasks
  • There are both legal and fraudulent GameFi models
Covered by 2 of 6 media groups
  • Budget 2 sources
  • Public money not in the collected reports
  • Media business not in the collected reports
  • Big capital 1 source
  • Readers and grants not in the collected reports
  • Undisclosed not in the collected reports

No newsrooms from these groups in the collected reports: public money, media business, readers and grants, undisclosed.

What are media groups?

Share of reports by media group
GroupShareCount
Budget
  • Actor 2
67%2 items
Big capital
  • Newsroom 1
33%1 item

How we count media groups — Methodology

Who the outlets write for
  • community 2
  • region 0
  • country 1
  • world 0
Channels
  • Telegram 2
  • TV and radio 1

How we measure speed, distance and channels

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