Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Technology bubbles have often concealed major frauds. From the railway boom to the Madoff affair, are there warning signs at ...

Attorneys James D. Gassenheimer and Isaac M. Marcushamer offer the telltale signs of a Ponzi scheme knowing another wave of frauds may be just around the corner. In late 2008 and 2009, the United ...

It was a rough year for Ponzi schemes. In 2009, the recession unraveled nearly four times as many of the investment scams as those that fell apart in 2008, with "Ponzi" becoming a buzzword again ...

Ponzi and pyramid schemes depend on new money and recruitment to survive. These schemes promise returns from new participants, not real economic activity. Bitcoin does not require recruitment or ...

Two men — Ryan Wear, of Everett, Washington, and Jordan Chirico, of Carmel, Indiana — have been indicted in New York on federal criminal charges related to two Ponzi-like schemes involving water ...

(Original Caption) Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard" of Boston who succeeded in amassing a fortune through his endless chain of sales of Foreign Exchange following the World War, later went to ...

When a Ponzi scheme collapses, how does a bankruptcy trustee with limited resources and hundreds of innocent investors — some winners, some losers — address all the competing issues in an equitable ...

A New York court has sentenced Magdaleno Mendoza for 71 months in federal prison for promoting IcomTech’s crypto Ponzi scheme.

Ponzi schemes and affinity fraud frequently overlap because both exploit trust and social interactions to operate effectively. A Ponzi scheme relies on a continuous stream of new investors to pay ...

More than 100 years ago, the name Charles Ponzi was splashed on newspaper front pages across the land and poured from radio broadcasts, putting the phrase “Ponzi Scheme” firmly into the arsenal of ...