Ponzi / Pyramid

The self-checkout was the counter. The refund desk was the register.

Darwin Alberto Corea Calderon was sentenced this week for a three-year scheme that drained more than $464,000 from Home Depot stores across the Carolinas. The mechanism was smaller than a Ponzi and older than the self-checkout aisle.

By Elena Ruiz · 3d ago

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Two sisters, eighty thousand dollars, and a phone full of numbers that were never theirs

Federal prosecutors say Ashley Brown and Amanda Brown Lundquist ran a two-year gift card and identity theft scheme across three Western Washington counties. The mechanism was small. The pattern is not.

By Mark Tell · Jun 11

The self-checkout was the counter. The refund desk was the register.

Two sisters, eighty thousand dollars, and a phone full of numbers that were never theirs

See the pitch they're running today.

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