
1) Certain investment swindle 2) Confidence trick 3) Investment swindle 4) Source of false returns
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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Operators of Ponzi schemes usually entice new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in t...
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An investment scam that appears to be actually paying high returns by paying the supposed returns out of the investors' own capital....
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A fraudulent scheme. It is a specific form of pyramiding in which money paid by later investors or contributors is used to pay inflated returns to earlier investors — until the funds dry up because no more contributors can be found
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A fraudulent investment scheme that promises high returns that are achieved only by using the inflow... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/Ponzi-scheme.htm?id=12889&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of Ponzi scheme'>more</a>
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