A Ponzi scheme works by misleading investors into an investment that promises unusually high returns. Then, as new investors enter, their investment is paid as a return to the investors before them. Because the only money comes from the investments of those who join later, someone will end up not getting any money back.
The scheme is designed to make high profits for the promoter, who will usually vanish with the money after a time. However, the scheme may collapse for lack of money or law enforcement may intervene before this happens.
It is a theft in a general sense. But it falls under it's own section of law.
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - ended in 1994.
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - was created in 1992.
The Ponzi Scheme was created on 1998-03-31.
If you were an investor in Madoff's ponzi scheme, you lost money.
The Agape scandal was the fact that they were defrauding people with the Ponzi scheme.
The Ponzi Scheme/ Pyramid Scheme Created by Charles Ponzi
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You can joke it is like a Ponzi scheme as far as money from one investor is used to "pay" another and so on....
The definition of a ponzi scheme is that ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profits earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
It is never ok to take part in a ponzi scheme. It is not honest or legal.
Ponzi scheme. Really, i heard it on Oprah.