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The seeds of the scam are usually planted on websites or social media platforms in order for the thieves to build up trust over time. Once a relationship has been established and trust is created ...
Paul Burks ran Zeek Rewards, an "investment opportunity" that promised investors returns by sharing in the profits of Zeekler, a penny auction website. Money invested in Zeek Rewards earned returns of 1.5% per day. Investors were encouraged to let their gains compound and to recruit new members into a "forced matrix" to increase their returns.
They use vague verbal guises such as "hedge futures trading", "high-yield investment programs", or "offshore investment" to describe their income strategy. It is common for the operator to take advantage of a lack of investor knowledge or competence, or sometimes claim to use a proprietary, secret investment strategy to avoid giving information ...
In early 2019, in the Kapa investment scam, the Philippine government shut down Kapa-Community Ministry International and its self-declared pastor, Joel Apolinario. [citation needed] In January 2020, the SEC filed a federal case against a Californian couple, Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, charging them of organizing a $910 million Ponzi scheme.
Seniors are taking the brunt of financial fraud to the tune of $3.4B+. Learn the most common peer-to-peer, impersonation and other scams on the rise to keep your money safe.
The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s Division of Securities wants individual investors to learn the red flags of these types of scams so they can avoid losing their money, their ...
On 28 January 2019, Woodbridge and its 281 related companies ordered by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to pay $892 million in disgorgement, former CEO Robert Shapiro was ordered to pay a $100 million civil penalty and to disgorge more than $20 million in ill-gotten gains and interest.
Many con artists employ extra tricks to keep the victim from going to the police. A common ploy of investment scammers is to encourage a mark to use money concealed from tax authorities. The mark cannot go to the authorities without revealing that they have committed tax fraud. Many swindles involve a minor element of crime or some other misdeed.