It's a fraudulent investment scheme that works on a "pyramid concept" where the initial investers are paid abnormally high returns on their investment from money received from subsequent investors. With those returns providing "legitimacy" to the investment - the "schemer" can use that documented information to bait people with bigger bucks into the scheme. Because there is not an acutal investment in a company or other entity to generate money - the scheme will cave leaving those investors S.O.L. and the "schemer" who with any luck (on his part) has probably already left the country and has a numbered bank account in the Caymans! Watch the national news. There's a big one under investigation right now.
The Agape scandal was the fact that they were defrauding people with the Ponzi scheme.
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The definition of a ponzi scheme is that ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profits earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
No. They all collapse of their own weight.
$65-billion
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - ended in 1994.
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - was created in 1992.
The Ponzi Scheme was created on 1998-03-31.
If you were an investor in Madoff's ponzi scheme, you lost money.
The Agape scandal was the fact that they were defrauding people with the Ponzi scheme.
The Ponzi Scheme/ Pyramid Scheme Created by Charles Ponzi
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You can joke it is like a Ponzi scheme as far as money from one investor is used to "pay" another and so on....
The definition of a ponzi scheme is that ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profits earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
It is never ok to take part in a ponzi scheme. It is not honest or legal.
The only word I could think of that rhymes with "fonzie" is ponzi (like in a ponzi scheme).
Ponzi scheme. Really, i heard it on Oprah.