(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 ...

From Charles Ponzi's original scam to Bernie Madoff's unprecedented $65 billion fraud, discover how these schemes operated and the devastating impacts they had on thousands. More for You ...

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 ...