http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/30/157606305/four-signs-your-awesome-investment-may-actually-be-a-ponzi-scheme
1. High return! Low risk!
2. Where does the money come from? It's complicated.
3. It's illegal, but it's safe.
4. They don't even want your money.
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Ponzi schemers often feign reluctance to take an investor's money, which can defuse any suspicions. They also invoke safe-sounding words, like "bank," "securities exchange," "voucher, "guarantee," or "full faith and credit," and call their investments "trusts" or "trust units." Many foster friendships and even romantic relationships with their marks, and market their investments through the houses of worship they attend themselves.
In the end, Frankel writes, "con artists remind us of honest people. They are similar to entrepreneurs, eternally and unshakably optimistic, and they act like (and are) gifted salespeople."
In the end, Frankel writes, "con artists remind us of honest people. They are similar to entrepreneurs, eternally and unshakably optimistic, and they act like (and are) gifted salespeople."
