Ponzi schemes continue to thrive—even in crypto. Learn key lessons and warning signs from recent convictions to protect your ...

A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often promise to invest money and generate high returns with little ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

Thousands of clients trusted Todd Burkhalter to invest their money in high-yielding real estate loans. In reality, Burkhalter was running a massive Ponzi scheme while splurging on motorcoaches and ...

Most of us have probably heard of Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes. If you are familiar with these terms, you are likely thinking, like most people, that they would be easy to spot, thanks to the ...

Every year, thousands of intelligent and otherwise capable people fall victim to some form of exploitation or fraud. The fallout is devastating, both financially and psychologically. Rates of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Todd Burkhalter, the CEO of the Georgia-based financial advisory group Drive ...

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Community Development Service Group in the NYSC scheme to ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned Nigerians against investing in unregistered online investment schemes being aggressively promoted on social media platforms, cautioning that ...