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The company had lent out $8 billion to clients and had almost $12 billion in assets under management as of May 2022, [181] up from $1.2 billion in loans and $200 million AUM reported in 2019. [182] Days prior, former investment manager Jason Stone sued Celsius, alleging that the company ran a Ponzi scheme. [180]
By 2006 the company reported 30,000 members using the site to sell music through its network. In 2007, the Federal Trade Commission sued the company for being an illegal pyramid scheme. The company lost the suit in 2012, and lost appeal in June 2014. In June 2015, the FTC began returning $1.9 million to people who had lost money in the scheme. [76]
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BurnLounge (shut down as pyramid scheme by FTC in 2012) Equinox International (dissolved in 2001) European Grouping of Marketing Professionals/CEDIPAC SA (dissolved in 1995) European Home Retail (dissolved in 2007) Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (dissolved in 2013) FundAmerica (bankrupt in 1990) [25] Holiday Magic (dissolved in 1974)
The 162-page list of clients (without investment amount), filed in United States bankruptcy court in Manhattan, was made public on February 4, 2009. [3] [4] [5] Some of the clients profited. [6] Thousands of individual investors of Fairfield Greenwich, J. Ezra Merkin's Ascot Partners, and Chais Investments are not included. [7]
A Ponzi scheme claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach, and often attracts well-to-do investors, whereas pyramid schemes explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments. [2] A pyramid scheme typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it.
The MMM Ponzi scheme was launched in February 1994, [9] promising annual returns of up to 3000 %. [10] The company started an aggressive TV ad campaign, spending 330 million rubles in March 1994. [9] The ad campaign appealed to the general public by using "ordinary" characters that viewers could identify with.
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.