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Barry Jay Minkow (born March 22, 1966) [1] is a former American businessman, pastor, and convicted felon. While still in high school, Minkow founded ZZZZ Best ( / ˈziːbɛst / [2] ), which appeared to be an immensely successful carpet-cleaning and restoration company. However, it was actually a front to attract investment for a massive Ponzi ...
The Times of India. 7 June 2008. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. ^ "Teachers' recruitment scam: Pleas to make 4 IAS officers, teachers accused rejected". The Times of India. 28 March 2012. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. ^ "No headway in Rs 16,000 cr submarine scam probe".
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
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Nick Leeson, English trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank [43] James Paul Lewis, Jr., ran one of the biggest ($311 million) and longest running Ponzi schemes (20 years) in U.S. history [44] Victor Lustig, con artist known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower ".
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Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month. By the time the scheme ...
The scam was the biggest money market scam ever committed in India, amounting to approximately ₹ 5,000 crores. The main perpetrator of the scam was a stock and money market broker Harshad Mehta. It was a systematic stock scam using fake bank receipts and stamp paper that caused the Indian stock market to crash. The scam exposed the inherent ...