According to the Denver Post, Greenberg lost $174 million of his clients’ money partly because he invested with two of the biggest Ponzi scamsters in history, Tom Petters ($3.65 billion) and Bernard Madoff ($50 billion).
It would be easy to ignore this case, because ICC’s promises seem so outlandish. Smart readers will pay attention, because ICC’s tactics are the same as those used by more subtle investment scamsters.
Please remember that it is very easy to become registered as an investment adviser. It is no mark of competence or trustworthiness. An adviser who tells you otherwise is preparing to rip you off.
uxury living on a salary that would not seem to support it is the most reliable indicator of embezzlement. Unless corporations occasionally look for it, they are at risk for the kind of loss that Koss suffered.
We’ve seen quite a few oil and gas frauds lately. Be aware that they are on the rise.
The list of institutional investors who have fallen victim to financial scams is too long to include here, but it includes Lehman Brothers, the City of Detroit, Carnegie Mellon University, and the New York Mets.
With regulators closing in and civil lawsuits piling up, Bangaru fled to the United States in July 2005.
Unfortunately, even if every judge handed out the maximum sentence to every convicted investment fraudster prosecuted in his or her court, there would still be enough operating fraudsters to cost every investor his or her life savings many times over.
According to prosecutors in Santa Ana, California, Mahmoud Karkehabadi (aka Mike Karkeh) orchestrated a multi-million Ponzi scheme, telling prospective investors that their money would go to finance movies starring the likes of Flavor Fav and mixed martial artist Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Ponzi Schemes Surge Down Under
A better restatement of a widely known axiom is, “If it seems too good to be true, you are talking to an amateur scam artist.”