Get-rich-quick scheme

This is an accepted version of this page A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment.

Most schemes create an impression that participants can obtain this high rate of return with little risk, skill, effort, or time.

The scheme will usually claim that it does not require any special IT or marketing skills and will provide an unrealistic timeframe in which the individual could make hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

[citation needed] Since the growth in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the early 2020s, skeptics have accused many NFT projects of resembling get-rich-quick schemes.

[3][4][5] Legal and quasi-legal get-rich-quick schemes are frequently advertised on infomercials and in magazines and newspapers.