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ponzi

/pon-zee/US // ˈpɒn zi //

庞氏骗局,庞氏,庞氏集团,庞氏兄弟

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incon game
Synonyms
bait-and-switch诱骗式销售,诱骗性交易,诱导性交易,诱骗式的交易boiler room锅炉房,锅炉室,锅炉间,热水房bunco game邦科游戏,邦克游戏,邦科游戏机,文库游戏bunko蹦子,蹦极,蹦迪,蹦蹦跳跳con骗局,骗人,骗术,骗人的con job骗人的工作,骗人的勾当,骗人的事,骗局confidence trick自信诀窍,自信技巧,自信的技巧,自信之术flimflam虚张声势,骗局,虚伪性,虚张声势的行为hustle喧嚣,喧闹,喧哗,喧闹声racket球拍,拍子,球杆,球棒rip-off敲诈勒索,宰客,敲诈,敲诈勒索罪shell game贝壳游戏,炮弹游戏,壳游戏,空壳游戏skin game皮肤游戏,皮毛游戏,皮肉游戏,皮肤病游戏sting蜇伤,刺痛,蜇人,蜇伏swindle诈骗,诓骗,拐骗,骗人
as inconfidence game
Synonyms
bait-and-switch诱骗式销售,诱骗性交易,诱导性交易,诱骗式的交易boiler room锅炉房,锅炉室,锅炉间,热水房bunco game邦科游戏,邦克游戏,邦科游戏机,文库游戏bunko蹦子,蹦极,蹦迪,蹦蹦跳跳con骗局,骗人,骗术,骗人的con game骗局游戏,骗局,骗人游戏,骗子游戏confidence trick自信诀窍,自信技巧,自信的技巧,自信之术flimflam虚张声势,骗局,虚伪性,虚张声势的行为hustle喧嚣,喧闹,喧哗,喧闹声racket球拍,拍子,球杆,球棒rip-off敲诈勒索,宰客,敲诈,敲诈勒索罪shell game贝壳游戏,炮弹游戏,壳游戏,空壳游戏skin game皮肤游戏,皮毛游戏,皮肉游戏,皮肤病游戏sting蜇伤,刺痛,蜇人,蜇伏swindle诈骗,诓骗,拐骗,骗人

Examples

  • Now he helps bust up Ponzi schemes and other scams targeting newly rich pro athletes.

  • Butner Federal Correctional Institution in North Carolina, where Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff is housed.

  • Ponzi told investors that he was able to take advantage of fluctuating currency values to purchase international postal reply coupons.

  • Many Ponzi schemers also appear to be terribly selective in who is allowed to invest with them.

  • Ponzi was brought down due to a series of investigative reports in the Boston Post newspaper, which ultimately led to a federal criminal investigation resulting in mail fraud charges.

  • Hardly a reassuring forecast coming from a former casino croupier and Ponzi scheme salesman.

  • Squaring perfectly with the defense, Madoff insisted that he alone knew he was running a Ponzi scheme.

  • Had he any remorse, he would have implicated those who conspired with him to commit the greatest Ponzi scheme in history.

  • The Ponzi king is now saying J.P. Morgan executives suspected he was up to no good before his massive fraud was exposed.

  • When Suzanne Somers called Obamacare a socialized ponzi scheme, critics swiftly ripped apart her argument.

  • This Sowles is the worst mountebank since Charlie Ponzi, and you know it.

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