However, he soon lost the game of robbing Peter to pay Paul and was arrested before he could escape. Ponzi was sentenced to five years in prison for 86 counts of fraud.
After his scam was exposed, one of his former employees said that Ponzi was a complete financial idiot and didn't even understand addition and subtraction. What he is good at is sitting in the office with his feet up on the table and a pipe full of diamonds in his mouth. Kan Kan talks about his nonexistent financial business.
Ironically, hundreds of thousands of people believe him, including many senior practitioners in the financial industry. Can't they really see it? I think, like countless takers, I think I can make a lot of money as long as I'm not the last one to take over. This pyramid scheme is simply named after Ponzi himself, which is the infamous Ponzi scheme in American history.
In fact, no one is stupid these days. Everyone knows that virtual currency is a pile of codes, the primitive universe is a pile of pictures, and the house is a pile of reinforced concrete. The reason why so many people move forward wave after wave is essentially luck and greed. This is the best part of the drip game. You know this thing is worthless, but you are still willing to spend a lot of money to try your luck and bet on probability.
Of course, the dripping ball game is not completely useless, it depends on how you play it. I came to give you a hint. You can spread your thoughts, turn yourself into that jade plate, paint yourself with oil molds, and raise your price.
The difference between you and Pan Yu is that the fake Pan Yu is fake and will never be true in this life, but you are different. Maybe today you're just an impostor shuttling through vanity fair, or maybe you'll really become a rich man after a long time.
The name dripping ball comes from a jewelry scam in the Ming Dynasty, when a wealthy businessman bought a jade plate from a jeweler at a high price and found it was a fake in a few days.
At that time, the inspection method was relatively backward, that is, using water drops on the jade plate. If the water drops disperse like pearls, as Bai Juyi said in Pipa, "Buzz, whisper-and then mix them together, just like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade." Then this tracts is probably true.
If the water drop is a pool and has no shape, it means it is a fake. Obviously, this wealthy businessman is the latter. What can we do? If you buy it at a high price, won't it hit your hand?
After much deliberation, he decided to do something to sell the dishes. He coated the plate with an oil film, a bit like the one on cowhide wrapping paper today. With this oil film, the jade plate will have the effect of dropping balls. With this little skill, the rich businessman successfully sold this thing.
But he never expected that this thing, because of its outstanding appearance and the endorsement of the wealthy businessman himself, quickly spread among jewelers and the price was getting higher and higher.
However, after repeated trading and inspection, the oil film plated on it is getting thinner and thinner. When this layer of oil film is completely broken one day, whoever has a jade plate will become a sucker at this time, and some people even give this sucker an exclusive nickname, called Pickup Man.
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Do you think these jewelers are stupid? Can't you see? Of course not, it's just that they all know that I can make more money by buying this disk and selling it again. Anyway, as long as I make money, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
19 19, an American named Charles Ponzi packed a financial product with some stamps and exchange rate difference. It is said that if he invests for 90 days, he can make a profit of 50%, because several people who ate crabs earlier got real money. Ponzi, a financial product, quickly attracted a large number of investors, and he also saved a lot of money in an instant.
But in fact, this product doesn't exist at all. He just used the money of the investors behind to pay the high interest of the investors in front. As long as people keep looking for him to invest money, then his chain will not break. At the peak, the fat man holds150 thousand dollars in his hand. You know, it was 1, 9 19. Today, the money is at least one billion.