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icehawk219 · 2015-12-11 · Original thread
For anyone interested in more information on this, or on Ponzi himself, I'd highly recommend giving Ponzi's Scheme[0] a read. It's a great book on the subject.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968360

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