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Report the scam. If you feel you’ve been taken advantage of by an investment scam, contact your local banking institution to go over how to best protect and recover your personal finance ...
All investments carry some degree of risk, but there's a distinct line between a risky investment and a downright scam. Unfortunately, scams are prevalent. According to data from the Federal Trade...
Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost billions of dollars to them last year. Troy Gochenour, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was conned out of ...
In December 1992, MMM-Invest was created as a voucher investment fund, a type of entity created to collect privatization vouchers. [8] It was renamed Russ-Invest in May 1995, to distance it from the MMM scheme. [8] The MMM Ponzi scheme was launched in February 1994, [9] promising annual returns of up to 3000 %. [10]
MMM Global (also known as МММ-2011 / МММ-2012) is a Ponzi scheme launched in 2011 by Sergei Mavrodi, with subsidiaries in up to 110 countries. [citation needed] MMM Global is a new avatar of the Russian company MMM, also created by Mavrodi and which operated from 1989 to 2004.
Affinity fraud is a form of investment fraud in which the fraudster preys upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, language minorities, the elderly, or professional groups. The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are – or successfully pretend to be – members of the group.
Promises of high investment returns, with little or no risk, are classic warning signs of fraud. Consider Reporting, Deleting and Blocking Unsolicited Messages from Senders You Don't Know
A pig butchering scam (in Chinese sha zhu pan [2] or shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as killing pig game) [1] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.