Ponzi schemes
Robert Allen Stanford: Magnate, Philanthropist and Con Man
Year made public: 2009 Estimated Losses: $8 billion Robert Allen Stanford is the sole owner and the head of Stanford Financial Group, which turned out to be a colossal Ponzi scheme. As in the cas...
HYIP Scam Types
HYIP-scam is a program that don’t pay to investors. It looks like this: HYIP site operates, but the payments are delayed for an indefinite period. As practice shows, the delay may last until the...
The US Dollar as The Most Grandiose Ponzi Scheme (Part 2)
This is the part 2 of the article. Read the Part 1 The printing press switch on has begun to be used to stimulate the economy. The government decided to stimulate consumer demand through cheap loans, ...
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The US Dollar as The Most Grandiose Ponzi Scheme (Part 1)
You know what money we use in everyday life is? All banknotes, bills and other paper “stuff” would have been normal colored paper, if mankind had not agreed to exchange them for anything; ...
Pious Scammer Bernie Ebers (Part 2)
This is the Part 2 of the article. To read the Part 1, please follow the link. In general, until the end Ebbers ran a huge company as a large motel. When in early 2002 WorldCom discussed urgent measur...
Boy Band Mogul Lou Pearlman’s Ponzi Scheme
Most of you are sure to have never heard of Louis Jay “Lou” Perlman, but he created successful 1990s boy bands he Backstreet Boys and NSYNC familiar to many. He became known for a criminal...
The Ladies’ Deposit: ‘Women-Only’ Scam
The Ladies’ Deposit is an early Ponzi scheme, succeeded in Boston during the late 19th century. It’s amazing, but it was the scam invented by woman for cheating women. The scheme was creat...
Why Do Ponzi Scheme Creators Love Bitcoin?
History of Bitcoin is closely linked to the word Ponzi. In a certain way it is the history of several ill-conducted scams. This is not about the cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin enemies should no...
Quackery: From Renaissance to the Present Day (Part 2)
This is the part 2 of the article. Read the Part 1. The beginning of the twentieth century was the era of patent medicines sold everywhere in pharmacies, by mail, by the method of direct sel...
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