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Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.
Then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. who also held the charge of Panchayat department at that time, [3] had approved the grant of 5.3 acre panchayat land to Rajiv Gandhi Trust for 33 years at a rate of Rs 3 lakh per acre in January 2010, trust applied for the change of land use on 3 December 2010, which was approved on the same day. [4] [3]
The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are – or successfully pretend to be – members of the group. They often enlist respected community or religious leaders from within the group to spread the word about the scheme, by convincing those people that a fraudulent investment is legitimate and worthwhile.
The City Harvest Church criminal breach of trust (CBT) case was one of the longest criminal trials in Singapore's history. [2] Church founder Kong Hee and five other church leaders were found guilty by a District Court on 21 October 2015 of CBT by agent after misappropriating some S$50 million of church funds.
Articles relating to confidence tricks, attempts to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity , naïveté , compassion , vanity , irresponsibility , and greed .
Sunshine Empire was a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) company, set up in 2006, based in Singapore.It is now defunct, with assets frozen by the Singapore Court. The company is listed by the Singapore Government's Monetary Authority in its Investor's Alert List, for possibly running investment schemes without authority.
I Monetary Advisory (IMA) was an Indian investment company, [1] [2] with headquarters in Bangalore. [2] Its collapse was one in a long line of similar collapses over the preceding few years, of companies purporting to be Islamic banking companies, with investors in India and the United Arab Emirates, that investigating authorities afterwards stated to have been Ponzi schemes, including: Heera ...
The Rodolphus Allen Family Private Trust is a group, which purports to be a property trust, operating in Ireland.While supporters of the group's methods have stated that it can exploit loopholes in mortgage documents to prevent the takeover of at-risk properties from bank repossession, a number of politicians, financial advisors and legal commentators have warned that the group's purpose is to ...