{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Finance Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"Ponzi Scheme Victims Beware: There Is No Such Thing As Easy Money","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":506,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ponzi-scheme-victims-beware-there-is-no-such-thing-as-easy-money.\n A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud where a fraudster collects money from people with a promise of higher than the usual market rate returns. \n Check more stories related to finance at: https://hackernoon.com/c/finance.\n You can also check exclusive content about #finance, #ponzi-schemes, #the-history-of-ponzi-schemes, #ponzi-scheme-vs-pyramid-scheme, #ponzi-schemes-red-flags, #financial-literacy, #avoid-ponzi-schemes, #hackernoon-top-story, #hackernoon-es, #hackernoon-hi, #hackernoon-zh, #hackernoon-fr, #hackernoon-bn, #hackernoon-ru, #hackernoon-vi, #hackernoon-pt, #hackernoon-ja, #hackernoon-de, #hackernoon-ko, #hackernoon-tr, and more.\n \n \n This story was written by: @aileen. Learn more about this writer by checking @aileen's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\n \n \n \n A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud where a fraudster collects money from people with a promise of higher than the usual market rate returns. A Ponzi scheme involves circulation of the capital instead of the distribution of profits. Such schemes go belly up because there is no profit-making involved. \n \n ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/5jsccNzA2VS5A8o7Wh6TZK9cMfKFlwKAT0xOsKBE5w4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMjY5LzE2ODM1/ODI1NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}