A Ponzi scheme is an investment scam that pays early investors with money taken from later investors to create an illusion of ...

Financial advisor Todd Burkhalter pleaded guilty to running Georgia’s largest Ponzi scheme, defrauding 2,000 investors of $380M. Learn the red flags and how to protect yourself.

Given the name of the play, we know from the jump that Jack’s the Bernie Madoff of the piece. A Ponzi scheme is an investment ruse that pays dividends not from legit earnings but out of the ...

The SEC reveals how Nigerians were swindled out of ₦316 billion by Ponzi schemes, and names the major players behind the country’s most damaging scams. If you stand in the middle of the every-busy ...

Everything is fine until the scheme runs out of new investors and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. We still hear about Ponzi schemes, or pyramid schemes, as they are more frequently ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY — A local couple is facing charges after prosecutors say they defrauded investors of millions of dollars in an apparent Ponzi scheme. Wayne T. Essex and his wife, Susan Essex, were ...

Attorneys James D. Gassenheimer and Isaac M. Marcushamer offer the telltale signs of a Ponzi scheme knowing another wave of frauds may be just around the corner. In late 2008 and 2009, the United ...

This is New Mexico Crime Files – Taking it from the streets, then to the courtroom, to finally answering “where are they now?”. Each week, KRQE News 13 anchors Dean Staley and Jessica Garate bring you ...

There is a way that one expects visits with jailed criminals to go: typically, there's guilt, contrition, the accepting of responsibility. Not so with Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years, the executor of ...

The enactment of the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025 is not just an avenue to sanitise the financial sector but it may also be the beginning of sanity in the ever growing ponzi scheme circle ...

Every year, thousands of intelligent and otherwise capable people fall victim to some form of exploitation or fraud. The fallout is devastating, both financially and psychologically. Rates of ...

If you stand in the middle of the every-busy Lagos Island market and scream, “double your money in 10 days,” at least 100 people will turn to look. You can blame the economy, desperation, or our ...