You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work and why They're More Common Than EverSilver Lake Publishing, 1998 - 354 páginas This book takes an investigative look at the reasons why Ponzi schemes and pyramid frauds are thriving today. It closely examines why over 100,000 Americans are suckered into the schemes every year. Using dozens of memorable case studies, from Charles Ponzi's original scam in the 1920s to the elaborate New Era philanthropy fraud of the 1990s, the book scrutinizes the mechanics behind these deceptive plots. It considers the underlying factors, financial and psychological, that pump life into the scams. It also takes a close look at regulatory rules and other legal issues. Most importantly, it describes the modern variations that perpetrators and swindlers use to sell their schemes. Tips are offered to detect schemes and respond when they occur. The book aims to educate consumers and make them aware of how financial scams work.--From publisher description. |
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... millions of these coupons? I'll make five cents on every one,” he'd ask convinc- ingly. His tone was described as ... million. He paid his agents a commission of 10 percent. Calculating the 50 percent prom- ised to lenders, every loan ...
... millions of these coupons? I'll make five cents on every one,” he'd ask convinc- ingly. His tone was described as ... million. He paid his agents a commission of 10 percent. Calculating the 50 percent prom- ised to lenders, every loan ...
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... million a week . On one particularly flush afternoon , he walked into the Hanover Trust Co. with $ 3 million stuffed in a suitcase and bought controlling inter- est in the esteemed bank . But his success would not last long . While ...
... million a week . On one particularly flush afternoon , he walked into the Hanover Trust Co. with $ 3 million stuffed in a suitcase and bought controlling inter- est in the esteemed bank . But his success would not last long . While ...
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... million in a suitcase . He hoped to win back in the casinos the money he'd spent living like a tycoon . He lost everything . In August 1920 , the Boston Globe published an expose on Ponzi . A near riot ensued , with thousands of angry ...
... million in a suitcase . He hoped to win back in the casinos the money he'd spent living like a tycoon . He lost everything . In August 1920 , the Boston Globe published an expose on Ponzi . A near riot ensued , with thousands of angry ...
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... million. But, as early as 1993, sales- people hired to bring in investors were complaining to Amtel man- agement that delays in getting the pay phones placed were causing problems. One salesman wrote Amtel's sales manager: “Listed below ...
... million. But, as early as 1993, sales- people hired to bring in investors were complaining to Amtel man- agement that delays in getting the pay phones placed were causing problems. One salesman wrote Amtel's sales manager: “Listed below ...
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... million . “ There'd always be some risk , but he said he had it down to no more than what you've got buying [ stock in ] General Motors , " said one investor . In fact , there was no risk at all ... because Fry wasn't buying any deriva ...
... million . “ There'd always be some risk , but he said he had it down to no more than what you've got buying [ stock in ] General Motors , " said one investor . In fact , there was no risk at all ... because Fry wasn't buying any deriva ...
Contenido
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Surething Investments and Sweetheart Loans | 71 |
Precious Metals Currency and Commodities | 87 |
Loneliness Fear and Desperation | 167 |
Contemporary Variations Chapter 14 Multilevel Marketing | 183 |
Faith Religion and New Age Gurus | 203 |
Charities and NotforProfit Organizations | 217 |
www ponzischeme com | 231 |
What to Do if Youve Been Scammed Chapter 18 Make Friends with the Regulators | 243 |
Go After the People Who Got Money Out | 257 |
Go After the Lawyers and Accountants | 273 |
Affinity Scams | 101 |
Why the Schemes Work Chapter 9 Trust | 117 |
Greed | 131 |
Family Ties | 149 |
Secrecy and Privacy | 155 |
Go After Banks and Financiers | 287 |
Fight Like Hell in Bankruptcy Court | 305 |
Conclusion The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes | 319 |
Index | 322 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 245 - ... (1) to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, (2) to make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading...
Página 245 - ... did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of such untruth or omission...
Página 245 - ... by means of a prospectus or oral communication, which includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading...
Página 72 - Investment adviser" means any person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or as to the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities, or who, for compensation and as part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities...
Página 245 - .'It shall be unlawful for any person, by the use of the mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce or of any facility of any national securities exchange or...
Página 24 - ... whether the efforts made by those other than the investor are the undeniably significant ones, those essential managerial efforts which affect the failure or success of the enterprise.
Página 315 - ... (ii) was engaged in business or a transaction, or was about to engage in business or a transaction, for which any property remaining with the debtor was an unreasonably small capital; or (iii) intended to incur, or believed that the debtor would incur, debts that would be beyond the debtor's ability to pay as such debts matured.
Página 292 - Has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that he is capable of evaluating, alone, or together with other purchaser representatives of the purchaser, or together with the purchaser, the merits and risks of the prospective investment...
Página 6 - ... They were all of one class, actuated by the same purpose to save themselves from the effect of Ponzi's insolvency. Whether they sought to rescind, or sought to get their money as by the terms of the contract, they were, in their inability to identify their payments, creditors, and nothing more. It is a case the circumstances of which call strongly for the principle that equality is equity, and this is the spirit of the bankrupt law.
Página 315 - ... received less than a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for such transfer or obligation; and (B)(i) was insolvent on the date that such transfer was made or such obligation was incurred, or became insolvent as a result of such transfer or obligation...