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CoolNaira at "www.coolnaira .com" or "www.coolnaira .ga" is a Pyramid Scheme

The website CoolNaira located at "www.coolnaira .com" or "www.coolnaira .ga," which the owners claim are a people-helping-people online networking business, is actually a pyramid scheme. Also, the deceptive website has been blocked by Facebook because their security systems detected it as unsafe. To get around the block by Facebook, the owners of CoolNaira created a website called: www.coolnaira.ga, and is telling Facebook users to use that website instead. So, instead of contacting Facebook and proving to them that their website is not scam, the owners of CoolNaira just went ahead and created a new website. Now, this is a very deceptive way of getting around filters that were created to protect online users.

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The Website CoolNaira - "www.coolnaira.com" or "www.coolnaira.ga"

Why Do I Say CoolNaira is a Pyramid Scheme?

CoolNaira is a pyramid scheme because they do not do any form of investments, sell products or services to make money. Instead, they take money from new members that old members recruit, to pay the same old members. If CoolNaira fails to recruit new members, they will be unable to pay old members, which will cause the scheme to crash. Once the scheme crashes, the owners will take whatever money they have collected and disappear.

The owners of CoolNaira just collect money from new members, and pay some out to old members and keep the rest for themselves. That is all they do. Once the pyramid scheme fails, new members will suffer the most, because they will not get back a single dime of their so-called investment. For the owners, it will be a big payday for them, because they would have already collected thousands or millions of dollars from their members.

What is a Pyramid Scheme?

A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products or services. As recruiting multiplies, recruiting becomes quickly impossible, and most members are unable to profit; as such, pyramid schemes are unsustainable and often illegal.

In a pyramid scheme, an organization compels individuals to join and make a payment. In exchange, the organization promises its new members a share of the money taken from every additional member that they recruit. The directors of the organization (those at the top of the pyramid) also receive a share of these payments. For the directors, the scheme is potentially lucrative - whether or not they do any work, the organization's membership has a strong incentive to continue recruiting and funneling money to the top of the pyramid.

Such organizations seldom involve sales of products or services with value. Without creating any goods or services, the only ways for a pyramid scheme to generate revenue are to recruit more members or solicit more money from current members. Eventually, recruiting is no longer possible and most members are unable to profit from the scheme.

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