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

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 ...

Ponzi schemes and affinity fraud frequently overlap because both exploit trust and social interactions to operate effectively. A Ponzi scheme relies on a continuous stream of new investors to pay ...

An Italian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1903 with just $2.50 in his pocket, Charles Ponzi ascended from obscurity to dizzying wealth seemingly overnight. But under the surface of his ...

If there is any upside to the market meltdown of the past seven months, it might be that so many fraudsters operating Ponzi schemes have been dragged into the light. There seems to be a new Ponzi ...

When a Ponzi scheme collapses, how does a bankruptcy trustee with limited resources and hundreds of innocent investors — some winners, some losers — address all the competing issues in an equitable ...

Two Estonian nationals avoided additional prison time for orchestrating one of crypto’s largest Ponzi schemes (HashFlare) after receiving sentences matching the 16 months they already served in ...

Blockchain technologies are digital systems that work by distributing copies of information across several computers, also referred to as nodes, all of which are connected to a common network. These ...

The SEC has renewed its alerts on cryptocurrency scams, highlighting Ponzi schemes, systemic risks, and investor vulnerabilities ...

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 ...

Kevin Pathrath an other warn of an AI Bubble and AI Ponzi with a potential 80% collapse. The core of the argument is the circular financing structure of the recent OpenAI-Oracle-Nvidia deal and the ...