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Forget the name for it, but there is community based loan concept where everyone pitches in a little money to give one individual a loan based on luck of the draw with the pretext that in future prior past contributors have better odds of winning.

Needless to say, frequently is a scam.

EDIT: Here are examples:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipedia.org+informal+...



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