Cash gifting

The unsustainable geometric progression of a classic pyramid scheme

Cash gifting is the process of sending money to someone without expecting anything back in return. Much like a [donation].

The essential difference between cash gifting and donations are that the donater is aware that there is no return from the payment to expect, while the cash gifter is not. Mainly because the idea promoted by a [cash gifting program] is that the individual makes only one payment, but is made to believe to somehow receive exponential benefits from other people as a reward.

You are not sending a donation in order to receive more donations back in return. If you decide to donate money, you do so purely as a gift without expecting anything back in return. If you gave someone a birthday gift, but then didn't receive one yourself, would you go and ask for your gift back? Of course not, so why would you excpect your gift back here? You are sending a gift, pure and simple, without any selfish motives, so you cannot expect it to multiply and come back at a later date.

Warning: Some [cash gifting program]s may be illegal, see also [pyramid scheme]s.

-- Nehtefa (talk) 02:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

See also

• Cash gifting programs
• Pyramid schemes

External links

• FTC consumer complaint form
• Cash Gifting Watchdog
• Article by Financial Crimes Investigator, Bill E. Branscum
• Spoof article

• London Kural Coverage of Gold Quest owner's recent arrest in Indonesia
• National Consumer Agency Ireland
• Australian Trade Practices Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002 Australian Law Online