Ponzi Scheme - Books On Amazon.com _{Check eBay.com!}

BOOK
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Mitchell Zuckoff
$7.50

About this product:
It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston. Then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.

BOOK
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work...And Why They're More Common Than Ever
James Walsh
$12.00

About this product:
A keen insider's guide to investment rip-offs, scams and conartists.

This book takes an investigative look at the reasons why Ponzi schemes and pyramid frauds are thriving everywhere. It closely examines why over 100,000 Americans are suckered into the schemes every year. Tips are offered to detect schemes and respond when they occur. The purpose of the book is to educated consumers and make them aware of how scams work.

BOOK
The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History
Tyler Gray
$3.38

About this product:

Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a husky huckster who first honed his crooked business skills as a teenage math nerd and blimp enthusiast in Flushing, Queens. From there in the mid 1980s and from his Orlando, Florida, base in the early 1990s through 2007, he cheated hundreds of investors out of nearly $500 million. When they finally caught on to him and started demanding he return their money, the “Sixth Backstreet Boy” had already fled to Germany and then to Indonesia, where he was eventually nabbed by authorities and charged with a historic federal fraud.

Tyler Gray (the only journalist to speak with Pearlman while he was in jail) weaves together the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the greed and desperation of this boy-band mogul and monumental scam artist. Gray unravels Pearlman's twenty-year long Ponzi scheme and explores persistent rumors about alleged inappropriate behavior by Pearlman toward members of the boy bands and other young men. Along the way, former friends, family members, Pearlman business associates, and band members themselves reveal detailed accounts of everything from the heyday of their stardom to Pearlman's more troubled times.

The Hit Charade starts with Pearlman's awkward youth and follows along as his juggling act becomes increasingly complex, then builds to the heartbreaking moments when investors—retirees, relatives, and friends—and government authorities discover that the man they had trusted had been cheating them all along. How did this chubby boy from middle-class Queens, who pioneered some of the music industry's most lucrative pop ensembles, mastermind one of the largest and longest running Ponzi schemes in U.S. history? Here, finally, is the true story of Lou Pearlman's epic rise and fall.

BOOK
Ponzi Schemes, Invaders From Mars & More: EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
Joseph Bulgatz
$24.90

About this product:
A follow-up to Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds discusses bizarre incidents and deluded behavior throughout history, including the Jonestown mass suicide and the broadcast of War of the Worlds. 25,000 first printing.

BOOK
Protect Yourself from Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud: Preserving the American Dream of Homeownership
Joe Kraynak
$10.96

About this product:
According to the FBI, real estate fraud is one of the fastest growing white-collar crimes in the United States. From 2003 to 2004, reports of mortgage fraud jumped 146% and jumped another 28% from 2004 to 2005.With seven out of ten Americans owning their own homes, a huge number of people are potentially susceptible to this burgeoning crime epidemic.

In Protect Yourself from Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud, real estate investors, professionals, and consumers will discover how to spot the signs of a scam and learn how to recover should they fall victim to fraud. With detailed overviews of each type of real estate fraud and compelling case studies illustrating exactly how these scams unfold, this comprehensive book will arm anyone with the necessary information to spot the warning signs, avoid becoming an unwilling victim or unwitting accomplice, and stop the con artists in their tracks.

BOOK
Madoff: Corruption, Deceit, and the Making of the World's Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme
Peter Sander
$5.00

About this product:

BOOK
The Rise of Mr. Ponzi
Charles Ponzi
$29.29

About this product:
Some believed his book was forever lost to history. Others assumed it was only a legend in the first place- just another in a seemingly endless series of bogus get-rich-quick schemes perpetrated by a master of the craft? Could it possibly be true? Did the world's most notorious con-artist, Charles Ponzi himself, actually write his memoirs- his own personal account of his ascendency from obscurity and poverty into staggering wealth, fame, and eventual infamy. And if he DID author such a work- what on earth became of it? Despair, Inc. has finally discovered the answer.

BOOK
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend {Unabridged Audio}
Mitchell Zuckoff
$155.00

About this product:
The true story of an Italian immigrant in the 1920s who parlayed investments in 2 cent stamps into a $15 million fraud.

BOOK
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend   [PONZIS SCHEME] [Paperback]
Mitchell(Author) Zuckoff
$19.95

About this product:

BOOK
Need and Greed: The True Story of the Largest Ponzi Scheme in American History
Stewart L. Weisman
$2.24

About this product:
A Ponzi scheme - named after Charles Ponzi, who enticed investors to purchase worthless coupons in the 20s - was taken to new heights in the 90s. This work follows the human drama as a small-time scam grew into nationwide holdings of hotels, casinos, shopping malls and other buildings.