Financial advisor Todd Burkhalter pleaded guilty to running Georgia’s largest Ponzi scheme, defrauding 2,000 investors of $380M. Learn the red flags and how to protect yourself.

As a certified financial planner, I am often faced with questions about new investments that promise high returns with low risk. Examples include so-called ‘exclusive’ high-return funds that promise ...

Over a century ago, Charles Ponzi gained infamy with a return-postage-coupon scheme in which he promised quick riches to investors — instead using money from new investors to provide supposed returns ...

Ponzi was a huge buzz word in 2009, during which we saw almost four times as many investment scams fall apart as in 2008, the AP reported. Tens of thousands of investors watched more than $16.5 ...

Attorneys James D. Gassenheimer and Isaac M. Marcushamer offer the telltale signs of a Ponzi scheme knowing another wave of frauds may be just around the corner. In late 2008 and 2009, the United ...

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment program which uses payments from new investors to pay off earlier investors.

Everything is fine until the scheme runs out of new investors and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. We still hear about Ponzi schemes, or pyramid schemes, as they are more frequently ...