The crypto community appears to have largely welcomed Facebook's new policy, with many bitcoin veterans viewing social media as an advertising medium embraced
by Ponzi schemes and opportunists seeking to cash in on the speculative boom surrounding virtual currencies will little intention of delivering robust services or platforms.
A Bitcoin consultancy firm was established
by the Ponzi scheme operators in Seoul which lured in unsuspecting investors by offering magnanimous profit margins and claiming that the corpus shall be invested in Bitcoin for garnering bigger returns in days to come.
, the USMS will be auctioning off stuff once owned
by the Ponzi king.
My book called Gateway was published
by a ponzi scheme agency.
You could say the same thing about anybody take in
by a Ponzi scheme.
People duped
by Ponzi schemes couldn't really see themselves as gullible when they get paid a huge return and consequently reinvest.
Not exact matches
Bitconnect had recently been accused of running a
Ponzi scheme — the financial fraud most famously perpetrated
by Bernie Madoff —
by several influential investors, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and billionaire cryptocurrency investor Mike Novogratz.
Earlier this month, the SEC charged two bitcoin mining companies, GAW Miners and ZenMiner, both owned
by Joshua Garza, with operating a
Ponzi scheme.
Originally published
by Vivek Wadhwa on LinkedIn: «Why Bitcoin Is the Largest
Ponzi Scheme in Human History»
Authorities said Platinum operated «like a
Ponzi scheme»
by using new money to fund redemptions
by earlier investors, which were referred to internally as «Hail Mary time.»
«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a
Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates,
by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.
Rather, CASPERSEN operated a
Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use
by others, including
by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.
Central banks are running nothing short of a «
Ponzi scheme»
by printing infinite amounts of cash and cutting interest rates to record lows, an analyst told CNBC.
As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million
Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities
by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.
Ponzi schemes like Bernie Madoff's aren't the only ones perpetuated
by greed and stupidity.
Regulators in the United States have continued to crack down on smaller virtual currencies like Bitconnect, which has been described as a
Ponzi scheme
by many in the industry.
In characteristically subtle fashion, Gross noted in his August PIMCO Investment Outlook column that stock investment is a fading cult resembling a
Ponzi scheme buoyed
by past returns that were a «historical freak, a mutation likely never to be seen again.»
Other investor funds solicited
by Simmons were used
by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the
Ponzi - like scheme to make payments to prior Hedge Fund investors, Berman said.
Being a mathematician
by education I am stunned to see that «new brave world» where many ppl believe that
Ponzi scheme could go for a while.
The largest
Ponzi scheme to date was operated
by Bernard Madoff.
In light of the losses suffered
by investors in the recently publicized Madoff
Ponzi scheme, many investors are concerned about the safety of their own investment accounts.
A
Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money, or the money paid
by subsequent investors, instead of from profit earned
by the individuals running the business.
Like every other attempt throughout history to control the laws of economics and perpetuate
Ponzi schemes, the current attempt
by Central Banks globally will end with a spectacular collapse.
In a typical
Ponzi scheme, the «returns» of early investors are paid with money from later investors who are continually lured in
by the purported success of the earlier investors.
Seems to me if this is correct then it disturbingly leads credence to the skeptics who claim Bitcoin is a
ponzi scheme, or the claims
by the UK whomever it was claiming that entire market would fall apart if everyone tried to cash out at once.
Not in the manner of
Ponzi schemes, but
by the even more devilish leaky faucet in which a significant portion of the returns of the capital markets are diverted away from Main Street investors and into the arms of Wall Street and the insurance companies.
Other investor funds solicited
by Simmons were used
by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the
Ponzi - like scheme to...
It is created
by the same person who founded
ponzi scheme -LSB-...]
One of the problems with Bitcoin is the extent to which it is just a gigantic
Ponzi scheme,» the Shadow Home Secretary continued her explanation of the risks posed
by Bitcoin.
So many people get screwed
by the «stock market» dropping 50 %, regularly (every 7 to 10 years), that I still call it a
Ponzi Scheme.
You can learn more about David
by visiting www.SecuritiesFraudLawyerBlog.net or www.InvestmentLoss.com Press release regarding North Dakota
ponzi...
That's why all the financial managers would love to do what Bernie Madoff did and do a
Ponzi scheme, because it's really easier to do that than to actually make money
by being productive.
The government began to crack down on the
Ponzi scheme
by targeting bank accounts, so the operators of the scam then began to require their victims to pay in Bitcoin.
Religion is deceit, a glorified supernatural
Ponzi scheme designed to defraud the feeble minded, and its adherents are
by definition either dishonest, or delusional.
LDS is a cult, a
ponzi scheme and Mitt Romeny's gggrandfather was one of the founders who taught that the U.S. would one day be saved
by LDS and become a theocracy.
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Ron Paul is right, MYOB, the problem is the Fed laws from FDR that defined marriage and gave tax breaks to married couple to fund the
ponzi of ss
by having children.
Some wine lovers who were ripped off
by John Fox's
Ponzi scheme at Berkeley's Premier Cru are now being taken again only this time, it's happening -LSB-...]
to me we are just watching the inevitable consequences of a bursting football bubble which is what AFC (Arsenal Financial Corporation) has become under the Franco American alliance... to be honest its lasted longer than I expected as the signs of a
Ponzi club were visible 5 years ago but somehow the 4th place zombie fans kept the thing going longer than I expected but the bust is, consequently, even more worrisome for the long term health of the club... obviously Wenger should have gone 5 years back but that was not in the interest of the vulture owner... next steps are uncertain but I hope fans show their disgust
by not showing up to the emirates next game
At 170, RDA last fought exactly 3 months ago, Lawler 3 months ago, Woodley 8 months ago, Maia 5 months ago, Covington 5 months ago, Wonderboy over 4 months ago, Masvidal over 4 months ago, till 5 months ago,
Ponzi 3 months ago... with the exception of Cowboy who fought in February and oh
by the way he fights every 43 minutes, barely any of the top guys has had a fight recently or have been booked in a fight.
uhh he was a
ponzi financier who kept people signing on to his scheme
by using new capital to meet promise of big guaranteed annual returns... and wenger is much the same tells fans he is bringing guaranteed football glory
by selling off top players and bringing in cheap options while charging exhorbitant prices to fans who recall the glory days while siphoning off money to himself and board... its not perfect but it will do....
Surely, I thought, this whole cryptocurrency phenomenon was one big
Ponzi Scheme directed
by a 15 - year old genius from his mother's basement.
Surely, I thought, this whole cryptocurrency phenomenon was one big
Ponzi Scheme directed
by a 15 - year old genius from...
As many Nigerians, specifically the participants of the popular
Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox known as MMM, are hoping to unfreeze their accounts, the scheme had dump the use of Naira as mode of payment
by introducing Bitcoin as the best performing currency.
Colon was known to hang out in the now - shuttered Harlem restaurant Hudson River Café, which was owned
by Hamlet Peralta, a suspected con man recently arrested
by the feds for operating a $ 12 million
Ponzi scheme linked to the corruption scandal.
According to recently unsealed NY state court documents, Rechnitz was a recruiter for a $ 70 million
Ponzi scheme involving Jason Nissen, a former math teacher busted last week and charged
by Manhattan federal prosecutors with duping investors of his wholesale ticket business.
Prior to the election, DioGuardi was linked to a $ 1.7 Billion Dollar
Ponzi by the SEC.
Prior to Spitzer's tenure, it was mostly used for smaller financial violations, such as «shady pharmacists,
Ponzi schemes, and peddlers of fraudulent Salvador Dali lithographs,» according to a 2004 article in Legal Affairs
by Nicholas Thompson, published prior to the revelation of the Bernie Madoff
Ponzi scheme, for which Andrew Cuomo used the Martin Act when he was attorney general.
The Litwin charitable investments were nearly all managed
by Bernard L. Madoff and substantially lost in his
Ponzi scheme, which swallowed up many fortunes before being exposed in 2008.
Though Shkreli is best known for hiking the price of a decades - old drug
by 5,000 percent when he led Turing Pharmaceuticals, this trial related to an entirely different matter:
Ponzi - like fraud.