Fools and their money... though it is really hard for me to feel sorry for any of Madoff’s victims.
I AM NOT comparing the work of charities to Madoff and his ilk, just the business model.
Ya gotta love those Nigerians. No matter how many scams get outed, they just keep coming back w/ more!
Who was the FReeper who used to punk the scammers?
He’d lead them on, and on, and on.
He’d demand that they send him hilarious photos to prove that they were ‘real’ people.
With a foot in a bucket, a fish on their head and an ‘I am the Walrus’ sign in their laps...
Onetime Wall Street legend Bernie Madoff pulled off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history — until he didn’t. And $65 billion — many people’s life savings — went up in smoke.
Harry Markopolos saw it coming, for years, and could not get anyone to stop it. He and a band of investment insiders begged the SEC to shut Madoff down, to open his books and really see.
They got nowhere. Instead, Harry Markopolos feared for his own life — that big-money Madoff investors would come after him for spoiling the game.
This hour, On Point: The man who yelled bloody murder about Bernie Madoff.
http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/26/markopolos-revisited
The US should just disconnect the whole country of Niger from the internet. They’ve abused their privileges (Yes, I know the euros think internet access is a “right”).