Pon·zi scheme (p n z )n. A fraud disguised as an investment opportunity, in which initial investors and the perpetrators of the fraud are paid out of funds raised from later investors, and the later investors lose all funds invested. [After Charles Ponzi (1882?-1949), Italian-born speculator who organized such a scheme (1919-1920).] |
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