The infamous con artist started a fake real estate business in Florida after serving federal prison time for mail fraud.

"Do we really need another story of a scammer?" said Fiona Sturges in the Financial Times. We're "overloaded" with "tawdry ...

Charles Ponzi in March 1935 in Italy, where he was deported after serving prison time in the U.S. He holds part of the manuscript of what would become his autobiography, ...

Every year, thousands of intelligent and otherwise capable people fall victim to some form of exploitation or fraud. The ...

Charles Ponzi poses with his wife, Rose, and his mother on the steps of 19 Slocum Road in Lexington. Handout. If you want to live in the house where Charles Ponzi once lived, you better get rich ...

More than 100 years ago, the name Charles Ponzi was splashed on newspaper front pages across the land and poured from radio broadcasts, putting the phrase “Ponzi Scheme” firmly into the ...

Over a period of nine months, Ponzi went on to steal the modern equivalent of $250mn from thousands of investors, leading to his name becoming a byword for dodgy financial schemes. The most famous ...