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Consumers reported losing nearly $1 billion to bank impersonators in 2025, part of a broader $3.5 billion in imposter scam losses tracked by the Federal Trade Commission. The scheme is consistent and effective: a caller claims to be from the victim’s bank, warns of suspicious activity on the account, and urges an immediate transfer to…
Sanders Family Office LLC and its founder Margaret Sanders have agreed to settle Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they raised roughly $40 million in connection with a $56 million South Florida real estate Ponzi scheme. The proposed final judgment, filed in the Western District of Texas, calls for disgorgement of $2,977,099.53 plus prejudgment interest…
Ramil Ventura Palafox, the CEO of Praetorian Group International, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after draining $62.692 million from investors through a bitcoin Ponzi scheme that promised daily returns of 0.5% to 3%. The scheme operated from December 2019 to October 2021, pulling in more than 90,000 investors worldwide by combining crypto…
More than 430 investors, many of them elderly, lost money in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stretched across five funds and relied on misleading promissory notes sold by a registered adviser on Long Island. Vincent Camarda, who operated through A.G. Morgan Financial Advisors, pleaded guilty to investment fraud in Central Islip after the government…
Ramil Ventura Palafox, the founder of PGI Global and CEO of Praetorian Group International, sold investors on the promise of daily returns from crypto and foreign-exchange trading. Federal regulators say those returns never came from real trading profits. Instead, the SEC has charged Palafox with orchestrating a $198 million fraud scheme built on membership-package sales…
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of the shopping app Nate, told investors his product used artificial intelligence to complete online purchases automatically. He raised over $42 million on that promise. Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission now allege the technology never worked as described, and that the real engine behind the…
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have charged Paaris Kopsaftis with running a Ponzi scheme through his Illinois-based firm Blackwater Assets, Inc., allegedly swindling clients out of their money over a roughly five-year stretch. The indictment accuses Kopsaftis of collecting investor funds under the pretense they would be invested for clients’ benefit, then diverting portions to cover…
Vladimir Artamonov, a Harvard Business School graduate, faces federal charges of securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, and wire fraud for allegedly running a scheme that raised more than $4 million from his own classmates and fellow alumni between September 2021 and February 2024. Prosecutors say he pitched a strategy called Project Information Arbitrage, claiming he…
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged money manager Henry Paul Regan with conspiracy and fraud for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that raised more than $60 million from investors and caused losses exceeding $50 million. The charges, brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, allege Regan used two entities, Next…
Three sales executives admitted in federal court this month to defrauding investors through a scheme that raised approximately $528 million by selling pre-IPO shares, with roughly $88.6 million secretly siphoned through undisclosed markups. Robert Cassino entered his guilty plea on February 18, 2026, followed by Raymond John Pirrello Jr. and Joseph Passalaqua on March 3,…