Finland Hit by Madoff-Style Ponzi Scheme

August, 2009 Finland has recently discovered that thousands of its citizens were duped in a near clone of Charles Ponzi’s original scam and a close relative of Bernard Madoff’s. The scam in Finland was originally called WinClub, but after some negative...

The Penny-Stock Pyramid Scheme

(and its Similarity to Multi-Level Marketing Pyramids) Each era has its own business hoax. The schemes develop in good times and bad and adapt to the special conditions of each era. With the benefit of experience and hindsight, the hoaxes appear obviously as frauds,...