Pump & Dump

The loan was approved. Only forty percent of it ever reached her account.

Kondagaon Police arrested five men this week in an alleged ₹12 crore ($1.4M USD) loan scheme that ran through 43 teachers' salary accounts. The pitch was simple. The math was the trap.

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Pump & Dump

The tickets were real. The bookings were not.

A Fort McMurray travel agency at the Peter Pond Mall took payments for flights and hotels that were never booked. Seven years later, the RCMP issued a warrant. The people who found out first were standing at check-in counters far from home.

MLM / Affinity

The office looked real. The kit was soap and oil worth two thousand rupees.

A fake corporate office in Varanasi processed ₹4 crore in a year by selling jobs that did not exist to youths who could not afford to be wrong. What they got instead was a bar of soap and a quota of three cousins.

Ponzi / Pyramid

The offering plate had a bank account behind it, and the account was his

A federal indictment unsealed this month alleges Richard Reinaldo Garcia turned faith into a wire-transfer instruction, routing more than $3.2 million from over fifty believers into accounts named for a ministry that mostly existed on paperwork.

Pump & Dump

The man on the radio said safe. The retirement account heard him.

Brandon Ellington branded himself "Mr. Finance" on Chicago television, radio, and billboards. The Illinois Secretary of State now calls his operation a Ponzi-like scheme with a closeout date already on the calendar.

The Daily Brief

The Golden Bar Foundation promised risk-free. The Dodge Viper was the tell.

Elena Ruiz · Jul 7

He said he was fighting the Party. He was fighting for the yacht.

Mark Tell · Jul 1

He sold them a movement. He bought a yacht and two mattresses.

Mark Tell · Jun 29

The Coral Gables office had a view. The statements had everything else.

Mark Tell · Jun 27

The quarterly statement said fifty-four percent. The account held under three hundred fifty dollars.

Elena Ruiz · Jun 25

The ATM that paid out everything except the money inside it

Elena Ruiz · Jun 24

The warehouse in Wausau held 300 snowmobiles. None of them belonged to the investors.

Elena Ruiz · Jun 17

The private shares were never private. They were never shares.

Mark Tell · Jun 15

A Wausau man bought 300 snowmobiles with their retirement. The receipts were the confession.

Mark Tell · Jun 15

The letters said the money was safe. The money was already gone.

Mark Tell · Jun 13

The Eight Percent Fund paid eight percent. Until the day it paid nothing.

Mark Tell · Jun 11

The minister knew everyone's first name. That was the lock.

Mark Tell · Jun 11

The letters kept arriving. The account never existed.

Mark Tell · Jun 11

The halal label was the lock. The key was 36 percent.

Mark Tell · Jun 3
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