Definitions for ponzi
ˈpɒn ziponz·i

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1. Ponziadjective

   Whereby investors' returns are paid for directly by later investors' investments, giving the false impression that the investment is viable.

2. Etymology: Derived from the name Charles Ponzi, the business man who invented the scam

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1. ponzi

   Charles Ponzi (, Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 15, 1949) was an Italian swindler and con artist who operated in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases included Charles Ponci, Carlo, and Charles P. Bianchi.Born and raised in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in North America for his money-making scheme. He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days or 100% profit within 90 days, by buying discounted postal reply coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the U.S. as a form of arbitrage.: 1  In reality, Ponzi was paying earlier investors using the investments of later investors. While this type of fraudulent investment scheme was not invented by Ponzi, it became so identified with him that it now is referred to as a "Ponzi scheme". His scheme ran for over a year before it collapsed, costing his "investors" $20 million. Ponzi may have been inspired by the scheme of William F. Miller (also known as "520% Miller"), a Brooklyn bookkeeper who in 1899 used a similar deception to take in $1 million (approximately $35 million in 2022).

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1. PONZI

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ponzi is ranked #59603 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Ponzi surname appeared 339 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Ponzi.
   
   96.1% or 326 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ponzi in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ponzi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ponzi in a Sentence

1. Peter Fitzgerald:

   You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay

2. Susan Li:

   He took new money from new investors and used that money to pay old ones. So, there was nothing that was generated. There was no value that was created. Nothing that he did that added value or added money back for investors and that is basically what a Ponzi scheme is.

3. Tom Robinson:

   We have a team in London that scout the dark web for any use of cryptocurrency. They began doing this for XRP as well, the type of activities they found were primarily scams, like Ponzi scams, thefts. A smaller category is the sale of credit card details.

4. Steve Fishman:

   At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

5. Justice Department:

   As alleged in the indictment, however, BitConnect operated as a Ponzi scheme by paying earlier BitConnect investors with money from later investors.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ponzi
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html