Lagos, Nigeria — Mandela Fadahunsi, who works at a technical training school in Ikeja in Nigeria’s Lagos, never believed he could fall victim to a Ponzi scheme. On April 6, the 26-year-old was ...

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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 ...

Technology bubbles have often concealed major frauds. From the railway boom to the Madoff affair, are there warning signs at ...

Victims of a deceased financier known as the "Bernie Madoff of cows" are suing three banks, alleging they enabled the fraud that resulted in a $100 million Ponzi scheme. Some of those duped by Brian ...

It was a rough year for Ponzi schemes. In 2009, the recession unraveled nearly four times as many of the investment scams as those that fell apart in 2008, with "Ponzi" becoming a buzzword again ...

Two men — Ryan Wear, of Everett, Washington, and Jordan Chirico, of Carmel, Indiana — have been indicted in New York on federal criminal charges related to two Ponzi-like schemes involving water ...

In addition to providing retired and disabled workers, widows, widowers and the minor children of a worker who has died with a basic and stable income, Social Security was established to achieve ...

As a certified financial planner, I am often faced with questions about new investments that promise high returns with low risk. Examples include so-called ‘exclusive’ high-return funds that promise ...

(Original Caption) Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard" of Boston who succeeded in amassing a fortune through his endless chain of sales of Foreign Exchange following the World War, later went to ...