Investors were guaranteed 14% returns every week, lol. I am quite sure that the majority of the people did know it was a ponzi scheme, or at least something that wasn't entirely right, but they took the risk and invested anyway, all in the hope that they book returns before everything collapses. In this case it's the fault of the people being stupid and greedy enough to invest in it, so from there I can only say that people deserve to lose their money -- it may sound harsh, but it's the reality. The same basically applies to the fools having invested in BitConnect. It really annoys me how stupid and greedy people are, even till this day. It just shows that despite everything we have gone through, people will never learn anything. How difficult is it to understand that easy profits/money DOESN'T exist?