{"id":239392,"date":"2026-07-24T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-citizens-lose-millions-to-sgk-pyramid-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:27:55","slug":"lesotho-citizens-lose-millions-to-sgk-pyramid-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-citizens-lose-millions-to-sgk-pyramid-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Citizens Lose Millions to SGK Pyramid Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Popular app promised guaranteed returns for watching videos &#8211; and then stopped paying out <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A pyramid scheme disguised as a digital marketing company, has collapsed, causing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people to lose money.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Participants were recruited to invest money through an app and watch short online ads for guaranteed returns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The app abruptly stopped paying out returns over the past few weeks and then asked participants to pay administration fees and taxes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lesotho&#8217;s Financial&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular app promised guaranteed returns for watching videos &#8211; and then stopped paying out A pyramid scheme disguised as a digital marketing company, has collapsed, causing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people to lose money. Participants were recruited to invest money through an app and watch short online ads for guaranteed returns. The app abruptly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7604,4717,1407,9569,7033,257,16004,11079,54932,254],"class_list":["post-239392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lose","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-pyramid","tag-scheme","tag-sgk","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}