You enter the pyramid scam by giving money to someone. This may be physical handing of cash to the person, or it is through a digital platform where you pay using electronic means. When this happens you are under someone who is benefitting from you joining, thus the person is on top of the pyramid. To make money, you then need to recruit people to be under you and give you money. This is how it works, and it keeps going on and on, until people who join don’t find people to recruit under them to make money. Let’s assume the following: Founder Tatenda sits alone at the top of the heap, represented by the number “one.” Assume Tatenda recruits 7 second-tier people to the level directly below him, where each new joiner must issue him a cash payment for the privilege of joining. Not only do those buy-in fees funnel directly into Tatenda’s pocket, but each of the 7 new members must then recruit 7 tier-three members of their own (totaling 49), who must pay fees to the tier-two recruiters, who must send a percentage of their takes back up to Tatenda. According to the hard-sell pitches made at recruitment events, those bold enough to take the pyramid plunge will theoretically receive substantial cash from the recruits below them. But in practice, the prospective member pools tend to dry up over time. And by the time a pyramid scheme invariably shuts down, the top-level operatives walk away with loads of cash, while lower-level members leave empty-handed. In simpler terms, Tatenda gets into the scheme and recruits, Mary, Sarah, Mambo, Tino, Ngoni, Kundai and Hewitt, these people then issue money to Tatenda and they also recruit seven people under them, it goes on and on until it fails just like all pyramid schemes do.