A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent...

This is a list of Ponzi schemes, fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors rather...

МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s. By different estimates from 5 to 10 million...

investment scheme was not invented by Ponzi, it became so identified with him that it now is referred to as a "Ponzi scheme". His scheme ran for over...

Caritas was a Ponzi scheme in Romania that was active between April 1992 and August 1994. It attracted millions of depositors from all over the country, who...

The Ponzi Scheme is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Firewater. It was released in 1998 by Jetset. The Washington Post wrote...

described bitcoin as a potential Ponzi scheme. Legal scholar Eric Posner disagrees, however, as "a real Ponzi scheme takes fraud; bitcoin, by contrast...

from the original on 2021-11-04. "FBI — Common Fraud Schemes". Fbi.gov. Retrieved 2013-04-02. Zuckoff, Mitchell (10 January 2006). Ponzi's scheme – the true...

who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq...

also found guilty of running the Ponzi scheme. David Hu's case was handled by the Securities and Commodities Task Force and the United States Department of...

Equities owners were sued by the trustee representing the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme who claimed they "knew or should have known Madoff...

and admitted to operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history. On June 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed...

this venture became instead the fraudulent Ponzi scheme. In practice, the overhead on buying and selling large numbers of the very low-value IRCs precluded...

documents 2023: In April 2023, the Western Cape High Court declared MTI a pyramid and Ponzi-type scheme. Attempts to appeal the ruling by Clynton Marks were...

a Ponzi scheme Hui Ka Yan, founder of the real estate group Evergrande responsible for a $78 billion revenue overstatement 2019-2020 leading to the Evergrande...

an eight billion dollar Ponzi scheme, and is now serving a 110-year federal prison sentence. Stanford was the chairman of the now-defunct Stanford Financial...

developed NSYNC. In 2006, he was accused of running one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in United States history, leaving more than $300 million...

exposing alongside his brother the financial crimes of his father, Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme has been widely described as the most successful in history...

unpacks the world's biggest Ponzi scheme while also laying blame on the many who saw an abundance of red flags but decided to shrug them off and look the other...

the founder, CEO, president, and chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme....

Participants in the Madoff investment scandal included employees of Bernard Madoff's investment firm with specific knowledge of the Ponzi scheme, a three-person...

The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200...

Ponzi scheme in 2012. He was a member of the Anderson County Council from 2006 to 2010. Prior to this he served as the 68th Commander-in-Chief of the...

the Swedish "Match King", who ran a worldwide Ponzi scheme in the 1920s. Bernard Madoff, an American stockbroker who ran the world's largest Ponzi scheme...

fraud for his role in defrauding investors of $227 million through a Ponzi scheme and, as a result, was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2022. Avery...

is a type of Ponzi scheme, an investment scam that promises unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested...

exposed the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme committed by his father, Bernie Madoff. Madoff was born and raised on Long Island, New York, the elder of...

International Raceway and a win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2009 a Ponzi scheme involving Zogaib and business associate Paul Bellanca was uncovered....

that the pump-and-dump bubble is deliberately perpetrated by unlawful activity. A pump-and-dump scheme is similar in many ways to a Ponzi scheme (in that...

The Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme has been described as the "biggest green energy scam" in United States history. A Federal judge in the Securities...