Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
Nick Leeson, English trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank [ 43] James Paul Lewis, Jr., ran one of the biggest ($311 million) and longest running Ponzi schemes (20 years) in U.S. history [ 44] Victor Lustig, con artist known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower ".
The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024 (2 10). The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event).
The good news is that scams operate in many known area codes, so you can avoid being the next victim simply by knowing the list of scammer phone numbers. Trending Now: Pocket an Extra $400 a Month ...
House of Lloyd (a.k.a. "Christmas Around the World") (filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002) Kleeneze (went into administration in 2018) The Longaberger Company (dissolved in 2018) [26] Metabolife (dissolved in 2005) MonaVie (went into foreclosure 2015) Nouveau Riche (real estate investment college) (dissolved in 2010) NXIVM [27] [28]
Amy Bock (1859–1943): Tasmanian-born New Zealand con artist who committed numerous petty scams and frauds, and in 1909 impersonated a man in order to marry a wealthy woman. Eduardo de Valfierno (1850–1931): Argentine con man who posed as a marqués and allegedly masterminded the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
Aavin scam - Ten-year adulteration of milk supplied from societies of the Tamil Nadu State Milk Union, estimated at ₹ 27 lakh per day. [99] The owner of the truck was arrested in Chennai. [100] [101] Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority scam, West Bengal (₹200 crore) [102] Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab case.
The Bank of England refused to advance money, and it collapsed. The directors were sued, but exonerated from fraud. Friedrich Krupp. Germany. 1873. Steel, metals. Krupp's business over-expanded, and had to take a 30m Mark loan from the Preußische Bank, the Bank of Prussia . Danatbank. Germany.