Because thse ponzi scheme operators receive Funds from A, give it to B, against getting fund from B, they extend the same to C and the process goes on. Once there is any bottleneck or dearth of funds from the investors, the whole system falls like card house. The Operators then have no option left than to close down their shutters, ruining the poor small investors the maximum. From this point of view, ponzi schemes are declared illegal all over the world.
Pyramid selling plans or ponzi schemes are illegal and fraudulent.
The Ponzi Scheme/ Pyramid Scheme Created by Charles Ponzi
No Court of Law can give verdict in favor of ponzi schemes, rather they should be forced upon to wind up their businesses and/or now allowed to thrive upon their illegal business ruining the common people to pay their price for lust and greed ,lured by astronomical rate of return offered by so called ponzi scheme operators.
Hopefully nowhere. Fraud, when detected, is always punished.
Eventually not enough new investors can be found, or some of the original get scared and start trying to pull out their principle.
Stringent laws should be enacted all over the world against mushrooming of companies raising funds under ponzi schemes , luring common people to deposit their hard-earned money at lucrative rate of interests and then disappearing from the market all on a sudden,thus making them beggars over night.
yes
Tom Ponzi's birth name is Tommaso Ponzi.
A few get rich quick schemes, that actually work, are; marrying into money, buying a lottery ticket and starting a ponzi scheme. The ponzi scheme is really only effective if you are the one who starts it.
Richard M. Starfield has written: 'Wool over my eyes' -- subject(s): Swindlers and swindling, Ponzi schemes, Capitalists and financiers, Biography
Christine Ponzi's birth name is Christine Marie Ponzi.
Schemes to make the inventors more money