Chapter 2124

In a year or so, almost 40000 Boston citizens have become investors in Ponzi's money making plan, and most of them are poor people with dreams of making a fortune. Ponzi has received about 15 million US dollars in small investments, with an average of several hundred US dollars per person. At that time, Ponzi was called by some stupid Americans as one of the three greatest Italians who were as famous as Columbus and Marconi (one of the inventors of radio), because he "discovered money" as Columbus discovered the new world. Ponzi lived in a 20 room villa, bought more than 100 sets of expensive suits with special leather shoes, owned dozens of gold inlaid crutches, bought countless expensive jewelry for his wife, and even his pipe was inlaid with diamonds. When a financial expert exposed Ponzi's investment fraud, Ponzi also published an article in the newspaper to refute financial experts, saying that financial experts knew nothing.

In August 1920, Ponzi went bankrupt. The money he received, according to his promise, could buy hundreds of millions of European postal bills. In fact, he only bought two. Since then, "Ponzi scheme" has become a special term, which means to use the money of the later "investor" to repay the former "investor". Ponzi was sentenced to five years in prison. After he got out of prison, he did a few similar things, so he spent a longer time in prison. When he was sent back to Italy in 1934, he tried to cheat Mussolini, but failed. In 1949, Ponzi died in a charity Church in Brazil. When he died, the inventor of the Ponzi scheme was penniless.

This is the founder of the famous Ponzi scheme. I have to say that people who can come up with this scheme are smart enough. But the problem is, of course, normal people know that this is a scheme, and it is not a clever scheme.

However, they are not prepared to cheat smart people. Stupid people are the mainstream in the world, and most of them are stupid people. So they just need to cheat those stupid people. They have a lot of money in their hands. It's good to cheat them. Smart people can't cheat them if they want to.

This kind of foundation is just like this. They are not local, but from other provinces. They rent a magnificent building here. The annual rent is hundreds of thousands, and it's a one-time payment. It can be said that they are very rich. The company's staff are very particular about cars, such as Mercedes Benz and BMW. In China, these scams have been carried forward, If you want to cheat, you have to be cheated first. Only in this way can you cheat others. The insiders believe that you can really make money, so they even start to pull a lot of family members to invest money in it.

In this way, more and more people believe that this thing can really make money.

But after all, it's a scam. It'll cheat you one million and give you three hundred thousand. If you cross out two or three hundred thousand of all kinds of expenses, there will be two or three hundred thousand left in your pocket. There will always be new people coming in, and the old people may increase their investment after they taste the sweetness. If they don't increase their investment, they will use all kinds of excuses to postpone the return. It doesn't need to be more, just a few days will be enough.

So two or three months later, after cheating a part of the money, the company began to find various reasons to prevaricate investors, such as what funds are being summarized and summarized. During the period, it's not that it doesn't give you money at all, but it's not as happy as it was at the beginning.

For example, the money invested by the managers of Tianfang company can be regarded as a big customer. Except for the first two months and the happy rebate after the increase of investment in the third month, the rest are hesitant and unwilling to give. In the last four or five months, they have given more than 10 million yuan in total for various reasons. There is no way to solve this problem.

At this moment, it's clear that it's a scam. After cheating enough money, it basically starts to entrap people. This is Ponzi's scam. When it's almost done, it starts to take over the net. As soon as the money goes away, it doesn't matter whether you people who dream of making a fortune live or die. Lin Mingyuan feels that you deserve to be cheated. He has been dreaming of making a fortune for no reason. Who don't you cheat?

There are many ways to make money. Some come from the right way, some come from the wrong way, and some just break the law. But you can't go on the wrong way just because you want to make money.

Lin Mingyuan didn't expect to get a cut by himself. He had an accident. It was the people in his company who had an accident. These people were so stupid that they wanted to make such a fortune, and then they dug themselves in.

Money is not a small number. How much will be invested in the construction of the whole plant? It's insane that these grandchildren should move out half of their money.

Of course, this is a big case, not only because of the accusations of embezzling huge amounts of public funds by a few people here in Tianfang company, but also because of a fraud case involving 10 billion yuan in the county and even the city with the outbreak of this incident!

Yes, I heard it right. The amount of money involved in the case exceeded 10 billion yuan, reaching 100 billion yuan nationwide. Of course, this is a later story. Now that Lin Mingyuan has discovered that this matter is wrong, he must investigate it.

It's not that he's fussy. His own money has been taken away for nearly 200 million. When he finds out, can he ignore it? Obviously can't ignore, so the whole case was opened by Lin Mingyuan.

At this time, Lin Mingyuan's great destructive power was reflected. He originally wanted to arrest the people involved in the case. As a result, this action directly led to a vigorous investigation lasting for several months. As many as 40000 or 50000 people were involved. Almost all of these 40000 or 50000 people were the staff of the fund, and the company was only established for one year, However, most of the provinces and cities in China have been cheated.

As much as 100 billion yuan of money involved in the case, I feel terrible when I think about it. The originator is just a so-called college student, a so-called post XX beauty boss, and a talented student. Of course, she is just a puppet pushed to the stage, and the real person is behind.

This is an event with very bad social impact, but the earlier it is discovered, the smaller the impact will be. Otherwise, if it continues, I'm afraid more people will be cheated.

The outbreak point is that they cheated Lin Mingyuan's company and cheated so much money. Fortunately, before the other party had transferred all the money, Lin Mingyuan had already stopped the money and arrested the criminals. After a series of operations, Lin Mingyuan uncovered a huge fraud.

There are hundreds of billions of people involved in the case, and hundreds of thousands of people have been cheated. Some of these hundreds of thousands are pulled down by relatives and friends, some are attracted by new propaganda means, and some fall into their own greed. After all, there is something sweet to taste at the beginning, and being cheated is the next thing.