ponzi scheme

Ponzi scheme (pon-zee). A fraudulent investment scheme in which money contributed by later investors generates artificially high dividends for the original investors, whose example attracts even larger investments. • Money from the new investors is used directly to repay or pay interest to earlier investors, usu. without any operation or revenue-producing activity other than the continual raising of new funds. This scheme takes its name from Charles Ponzi, who in the late 1920s was convicted for fraudulent schemes he conducted in Boston. See GIFTING CLUB. Cf. PYRAMID SCHEME. [Cases: Consumer Protection 12. C.J.S. Credit Reporting Agencies; Consumer Protection §§ 56–58.]

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