Science news articles about 'ponzi schemes'

... in you? Mobile phone users worldwide will soon be able to play Ponzi scheme scammers in a new videogame based on the financial ruin wreaked by jailed US fraudster Bernard Madoff.

... (AP) -- Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly ...

Finance guru Bernard Madoff has allegedly admitted to the largest investment fraud in history. Charles Ponzi would be proud.

Sophisticated investors were among victims of Bernard L. Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Avoiding financial scams must be even trickier than we thought. These sites might make it easier.

While the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme led to the collapse of the Picower Foundation, a major benefactor for life science research, many bioindustry observers view the fallout from the scandal as a ...

Imagine the shock, the horror, and the sheer panic that would come with learning that the financial plan you`d sunk your life savings into was a sham, the financial experts you trusted were crooks, ...

Whether it's highlighted in major news headlines about Argentinean affairs and Ponzi schemes, or in personal battles with obesity and drug addiction, individuals regularly succumb to greed, lust and ...