His name is synonymous with massive fraud. Now, a new podcast. "Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story," delves into how and why ...

Charles Ponzi served prison time for his infamous 1920 Ponzi scheme. Afterward, he launched a Florida land scam, selling worthless swampland as prime property.

Following the arrest of PACL director Gurnam Singh for allegedly defrauding investors of Rs 49,000 crore, it is more crucial ...

Every year, thousands of intelligent and otherwise capable people fall victim to some form of exploitation or fraud. The fallout is devastating, both financially and psychologically. Rates of ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In early 1920, an Italian American from Boston named Charles Ponzi was on his uppers. Newly married and without a job ...

Smart people fall for scams, too. Ponzi schemes capitalize—literally—on our hopes and cognitive quirks.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accuses Georgia man Edwin Brant Frost IV and his First Liberty Building & Loan, LLC, of a Ponzi scheme.

A pedestrian was standing on the corner of Sprague Avenue and Post Street when he witnessed a surreal sight: water shooting up “in four or five different places all over the street.” ...

But Apple's first original scripted podcast doesn't take "any pleasure in the gullibility" of Charles Ponzi's doomed investors. Nor is it a "straightforward" story about the "dangers of fraudsters".

I have officially entered the realm of the cynic, that curious place between fantasy and reality that even Rod Sterling would find uncomfortable. It started with my telephone. That cool invention of ...

The Charles Ponzi Story” soared in the Apple podcast charts and premiered in the top of the History category. The series is about the mastermind criminal whose name became associated ...