Ponzi Scheme: Defined in CryptoCurrency
A Ponzi scheme is defined as an illegal scam where investors are promised large profits with very little risk. A Ponzi scheme never provides a valuable product or service to customers.
Named after Charles Ponzi, a man who became famous and wealthy for creating such a scam in the US in the 1920s. While he was not the first to come up with this idea, Charles became so famous for scamming over $1 million every day (in today’s dollars) that this scam became identified with him.
Charles built a fake business, and promised investors 50% of their money back in 45 days, or 100% of their money in 90 days. Rather than using the money to build a real business, money from new investors was used to pay back original investors, and he kept a portion of everything for himself.
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