Have you ever ended up in a Ponzi scheme? I hope for you that it never happened to you.


The chronicles, however, also very recently have told us of many people who have lost from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars because of the fact that they got stuck in one of these schemes.


Let's cut the bull's head: the Ponzi scheme is a scam!
Knowing its characteristics will allow you to recognize it and will avoid losing your hard-earned money.

The Ponzi scheme: the origins 

 

The Ponzi scheme owes its name to that of its creator.

As far back as 1903, the Ravenna-born Carlo Ponzi set foot in the United States and began to call himself Charles.

Not having a great desire to work, Charles was always looking for some clever system to make money without too much effort.

At that time, when sending letters to distant places - such as from the USA to Italy - it was common to put a "voucher" inside the envelope to buy the stamps to send the reply letters.

These "coupons" had a different cost from country to country but their counter-value in stamps was the same.

Charles, thanks to his contacts with Italy, raked a large amount of these "good" to resell them in the United States.

As a result of the Lira / Dollar exchange rate, in fact, Italian "coupons" were cheaper than US ones. 

Gold stamps

The good Charles had seen us right. The form of arbitrage he had devised was very good.

So good that it pushed me to use the first earnings to open a company and invite friends and relatives to invest in it, promising a return of 50% in just three months.

The voice took very little time to spread and more and more people turned to Ponzi to "invest" their money.

Within two years, Charles had employees and clients from all over the country and set aside a real fortune.
The business becomes a scam 

The business becomes a scam 

The then editor of the Wall Street Journal, Clarence Barron, begins to harbor suspicions about the system put in place by Ponzi.

Barron wonders why Ponzi is investing the proceeds of his company in real estate and bonds. For what reason, that is, does it invest them in classic assets and not in its amazing scheme?

Going deeper, Barron discovers that if all Ponzi clients were to ask the invested capital back, Charles would have to sell 160 million "coupons". Too bad that there are only 27,000 of them circulating all over the world!

In short, to make it short, after some initial difficulties, Barron manages to check it out and Ponzi ends up on trial and later convicted of fraud.

After serving his sentence, Charles returns to Italy, where he tries unsuccessfully to put his scheme back on its feet and then die in poverty in Rio de Janeiro.

The heirs of Ponzi 

  
Over the years, many have built those castles of cards that are the Ponzi schemes.  

As mentioned, even recently they have missed several, both in the international field Onecoin and Bitconnet.  

Undoubtedly, the most famous heir of Ponzi was Bernie Madoff, who promised his customers a fixed return on their investments of 10% per year regardless of what the markets did.  

Before being discovered and sentenced to 150 years in prison, Madoff had been able to put together 65 billion dollars. 

The house of cards is destined to collapse

 

There have been some Ponzi schemes that have lasted for decades - see the Madoff case - but sooner or later they are all destined to collapse miserably.

The reason is too obvious.

When people who have to pay the promised returns become too many, it is necessary that every month new chickens to be plucked into the scheme.

At a certain point, however, the numbers become so large that the promoters can not capture so many new chickens. Here it becomes impossible to pay the "investors".

Those who are not paid begin first to murmur and then to scream. The "complaints" on social networks or on the forums are the first to start, and then the actual complaints with the judicial authorities.

The promoters if they give up and excuse themselves with all saying that they did not know anything about it and that they really believed in the goodness of society, while the founders of the Ponzi scheme are enjoying the money they have cheated by hundreds if not thousands of people and they are already working to set up a new company from which to start a new fraud.

Stay away from easy money

 

Stay away from easy money is our motto!

Following this exhortation to the letter you will never fall into a Ponzi scheme. As you could see, in fact, the Ponzi schemes are based on the promise of making a lot of money quickly and easily.

If you have capital to invest, do it exclusively in serious, sustainable tools that have documented evidence that they attest these essential characteristics.

We do not promise dizzy percentages because to do so we should raise the level of risk, and we firmly believe in the value of prudence.  

To put it in a very used phrase: those who go slowly go healthy and go far.  This is precisely our goal. Add small gains to small profits until, over time, they become big profits.  

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