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  2. Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    In a Ponzi scheme, a con artist offers investments that promise very high returns with little or no risk to an investor. The returns are said to originate from a business or a secret idea run by the con artist.

  3. Ponzi Scheme | Definition, How It Works, Examples, Red Flags

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    A Ponzi scheme is a deceptive investment scam that relies on attracting new investors to pay returns to earlier participants. The scheme's promise of high returns with little to no risk lures unsuspecting victims, and initial investors often receive returns to build investor confidence.

  4. Ponzi Scheme: Definition, Examples, and Origins - Investopedia

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    What Is a Ponzi Scheme? A Ponzi scheme is an investment scam that pays early investors with money taken from later investors to create an illusion of big profits.

  5. Ponzi Scheme - Investor.gov

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    A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often promise to invest your money and generate high returns with little or no risk. But in many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters do not invest the money.

  6. Ponzi Schemes - Investor.gov

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    A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi schemes are named after Charles Ponzi. In the 1920s, Ponzi promised investors a 50% return within a few months for what he claimed was an investment in international mail coupons.

  7. A Ponzi scheme is a type of pyramid scheme in which the operator, at the pyramid’s top, acquires a small group of investors that is initially provided with tremendous investment returns via funds secured from a second group of investors.

  8. Ponzi schemes are a type of investment fraud in which investors are promised artificially high rates of return with little or no risk. Original investors and the perpetrators of the fraud are paid off by funds from later investors, but there is little or no actual business activity that produces revenue. The scheme generates funds for previous ...

  9. Ponzi Scheme vs. Pyramid Scheme: What's the Difference?

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    A Ponzi scheme is a type of financial fraud in which the "success" of the entity is propped up by paying returns to initial investors from the money invested...

  10. Ponzi Scheme Definition & Example - InvestingAnswers

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    A Ponzi scheme is an investment scam that pays existing investors out of money invested by new investors, giving the appearance of earnings and profits where there are none. Ponzi schemes are also known as pyramid schemes.

  11. How Ponzi Schemes Work - HowStuffWorks

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    A Ponzi scheme is a carefully orchestrated financial scam that's completely illegal. Learn how Ponzi schemes begin and how scammers generate big money.