run a Ponzi scheme

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• Ponzi scheme — A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that involves promising or paying abnormally high returns ( profits ) to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors, rather than from net revenues generated by any real business …   Wikipedia

• Ponzi scheme — named for pyramid scheme based in Boston in 1920, run by Charles Ponzi …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

• MMM (Ponzi scheme) — Infobox Defunct company company name = MMM Company MMM Акционерное общество (Russian) company slogan = company type = fate = Shut down by Russian police in 1994, declared bankruptcy in 1997 Predecessor = successor = foundation = 1989 defunct =… …   Wikipedia

• scheme — [skiːm] noun [countable] 1. an official plan or arrangement that is intended to help people in some way: • a government training scheme for the unemployed 2. FINANCE an arrangement in which the government or an employer provides financial help to …   Financial and business terms

• scheme — noun 1 plan for getting an advantage, etc. for yourself ADJECTIVE ▪ crazy, hare brained ▪ She s come up with a hare brained scheme for getting her novel published. ▪ elaborate ▪ get rich quick …   Collocations dictionary

• Charles Ponzi — This article is about the businessman. For the fraudulent business scheme named after him, see Ponzi scheme. Charles Ponzi Ponzi in 1920 Born March 3, 1882(1882 03 03) Lugo, Italy …   Wikipedia

• Pyramid scheme — The unsustainable exponential progression of a classic pyramid scheme A pyramid scheme is a non sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment or services, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, rather than …   Wikipedia

• Bernard Madoff — Madoff redirects here. For other people with the same surname, see Madoff (surname). Bernard Lawrence Madoff US Department of Justice photograph, 2 …   Wikipedia

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• Marc Stuart Dreier — Marc Dreier Born Marc Stuart Dreier May 12, 1950 (1950 05 12) (age 61) South Shore, New York, US …   Wikipedia