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2. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the Spitzedersche Privatbank in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

3. List of fraudsters - Wikipedia

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   Bernard Madoff, creator of a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest investor fraud ever attributed to a single individual; Matt the Knife, American con artist, card cheat and pickpocket; from age approximately 14 through 21, stole from dozens of casinos, corporations and at least one Mafia crime family.

4. The Biggest Money Scams of All Time - AOL

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   Sports Scams: The Biggest NCAA Money Scandals of All Time. ... the CUC fiasco was the biggest accounting fraud ever, costing investors $19 billion, according to the Times. Federal courts sentenced ...

5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

6. The Biggest and Boldest Scams of the Past Decade

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7. The Biggest Money Scams of All Time - AOL

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   The recent death of Bernie Madoff has everyone talking again about money schemes. As the orchestrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff wrote the book on how to get by on the sly ...

8. Bernie Madoff - Wikipedia

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   Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ ˈ m eɪ d ɔː f / MAY-dawf; [2] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [3] [4] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. [5]

9. The Most Notorious Corporate Scammers in U.S. History - AOL

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   Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes, once the wunderkind of Silicon Valley, is only the latest in a long line of corporate scammers. Ever since Charles Ponzi swindled millions from investors more than a ...