11 Sensational Get Rich Quick Schemes
From The Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower to New Jersey Woman Fakes Cancer here are 11 Sensational Get Rich Quick Schemes.\r
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4 - ZZZZ Best \r
American businessman Barry Jay Minkow in the 1980s founded ZZZZ Best, a trendy immensely successful carpet cleaning and restoration company. The company may have been real, but most of its contrs were fake, there were also check kiting, staged break-ins to the offices and fraudulent credit card charges. The insurance restoration business in charge of ZZZZ Best also was a scam created by Barry. By 1987 the Ponzi scheme had collapsed and LAPD raided Barrys home only to discover evidence that the company was being used to launder profits from several organised crime lords. Investors and lenders were out over 100 million dollars and the scheme is well known as one of the largest investment frauds ever penetrated by a single person as well as one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Barry was sentenced to 25 years in prison, once released he found religion and became a pastor. Several years later the newly reformed Barry admitted to defrauding his own church and was thrown back into prison for five years as well as restitution of 612 million dollars. \r
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3 - New Jersey Woman Fakes Cancer\r
In new a 39-year-old New Jersey mother told her family, friends and facebook followers that she had bladder cancer. Sadness overwhelmed her community who rallied behind her, sending more than 12,000 dollars in donations as well as gifts and food for the poor sick mother of two. As the months went on, Lori Stilley took a turn for the worse, her cancer went stage 3, then terminal, she wrote an eBook about her troubles earning herself an additional 3,000 bucks, donations continued to flow in granting the woman the wedding of her dreams. And then, a miracle, she was cured! Despite stopping all treatments months earlier. Her already suspicious family investigated, turns out Lori was never sick at all, the sham had gone on for two excruciating years, there were Team Lori Rocks t-shirts and an entire facebook page devoted to her battle with cancer, which wasnt real. After a 25,000 bail paid in full, all Lori received for her crime was 500 hours of community service and 12,000 dollars in restitution. \r
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2 - The Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower\r
Only, you know, he didnt. Victor Lustig was a con man of epic proportions, he made fake 100 dollar bills, swindled infamous gangster Al Capone out of 50,000 dollars in a fraudulent stock deal and all kinds of sinister shady undertakings. But his biggest, most notorious scam was when he sold off the Eiffel Tower to one gullible embarrassed French citizen. Posing as a government official in a rented limousine with paperwork telling of the structures disrepair and monetary issues, which he copied straight out of a French business section Newspaper article the clever crook duped one silly soul into forking over a suitcase full of cash for the iconic building which of course, wasnt really up for sale. The troubled buyer was so embarrassed by the whole scam that he never went to the police. One month later, Victor tried the same scheme again, collecting more cash from another foolish Frenchman, however, this time around the police were called, yet the con man managed to escape, that is until years later when a jealous mistress turned him in. \r
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1 - Pudding Scheme \r
David Phillips or as some call him that pudding guy is one of the few get rich quick schemers on our list who not only got away with it, but managed to scam millions legally. In 1999, pudding snack offered a sweet deal, but our product and we will award you with frequent flyer miles. Whilst roaming the grocery store David stumbled upon the promotion and doing some quick mathematical calculations, he discovered that the value of the frequent flyer points exceeded the cost of the tasty creamy confectionary treats. David bought 12,150 cups of pudding earning himself 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles! He spent around 3,500 dollars in total but earned over a million frequent flier miles from American Airlines. Not only that, David donated all of the pudding to charity and earned himself a stellar tax break at the end of the year, gathering nearly all of those frequent flying miles for literally nearly nothing. David is an American civil engineer who currently teaches at the University of California.
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4 - ZZZZ Best \r
American businessman Barry Jay Minkow in the 1980s founded ZZZZ Best, a trendy immensely successful carpet cleaning and restoration company. The company may have been real, but most of its contrs were fake, there were also check kiting, staged break-ins to the offices and fraudulent credit card charges. The insurance restoration business in charge of ZZZZ Best also was a scam created by Barry. By 1987 the Ponzi scheme had collapsed and LAPD raided Barrys home only to discover evidence that the company was being used to launder profits from several organised crime lords. Investors and lenders were out over 100 million dollars and the scheme is well known as one of the largest investment frauds ever penetrated by a single person as well as one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Barry was sentenced to 25 years in prison, once released he found religion and became a pastor. Several years later the newly reformed Barry admitted to defrauding his own church and was thrown back into prison for five years as well as restitution of 612 million dollars. \r
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3 - New Jersey Woman Fakes Cancer\r
In new a 39-year-old New Jersey mother told her family, friends and facebook followers that she had bladder cancer. Sadness overwhelmed her community who rallied behind her, sending more than 12,000 dollars in donations as well as gifts and food for the poor sick mother of two. As the months went on, Lori Stilley took a turn for the worse, her cancer went stage 3, then terminal, she wrote an eBook about her troubles earning herself an additional 3,000 bucks, donations continued to flow in granting the woman the wedding of her dreams. And then, a miracle, she was cured! Despite stopping all treatments months earlier. Her already suspicious family investigated, turns out Lori was never sick at all, the sham had gone on for two excruciating years, there were Team Lori Rocks t-shirts and an entire facebook page devoted to her battle with cancer, which wasnt real. After a 25,000 bail paid in full, all Lori received for her crime was 500 hours of community service and 12,000 dollars in restitution. \r
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2 - The Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower\r
Only, you know, he didnt. Victor Lustig was a con man of epic proportions, he made fake 100 dollar bills, swindled infamous gangster Al Capone out of 50,000 dollars in a fraudulent stock deal and all kinds of sinister shady undertakings. But his biggest, most notorious scam was when he sold off the Eiffel Tower to one gullible embarrassed French citizen. Posing as a government official in a rented limousine with paperwork telling of the structures disrepair and monetary issues, which he copied straight out of a French business section Newspaper article the clever crook duped one silly soul into forking over a suitcase full of cash for the iconic building which of course, wasnt really up for sale. The troubled buyer was so embarrassed by the whole scam that he never went to the police. One month later, Victor tried the same scheme again, collecting more cash from another foolish Frenchman, however, this time around the police were called, yet the con man managed to escape, that is until years later when a jealous mistress turned him in. \r
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1 - Pudding Scheme \r
David Phillips or as some call him that pudding guy is one of the few get rich quick schemers on our list who not only got away with it, but managed to scam millions legally. In 1999, pudding snack offered a sweet deal, but our product and we will award you with frequent flyer miles. Whilst roaming the grocery store David stumbled upon the promotion and doing some quick mathematical calculations, he discovered that the value of the frequent flyer points exceeded the cost of the tasty creamy confectionary treats. David bought 12,150 cups of pudding earning himself 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles! He spent around 3,500 dollars in total but earned over a million frequent flier miles from American Airlines. Not only that, David donated all of the pudding to charity and earned himself a stellar tax break at the end of the year, gathering nearly all of those frequent flying miles for literally nearly nothing. David is an American civil engineer who currently teaches at the University of California.