(Mental Floss)-- Investigators are trying to figure out whether the financial fraud allegedly perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff was, in fact, the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The alleged scam ...

ONE hundred and fifty years after Charles Dickens wrote in Little Dorritt about London investors succumbing to the fraudulent investment schemes of Mr. Merdle’s bank, trusting victims are still ...

The theater play is based on the life of Charles Ponzi. The “Ponzi scheme,” the most widespread financial scam model, devised a century ago by Charles Ponzi, the Italian adventurer who emigrated to ...