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Feds Charge Norada with Swindling $62.5 million from Investors in Massive Ponzi Scheme – How to Detect the Red Flags Beforehand
Investors were drawn-in by promises of sky-high returns, low-risk, raving investor reviews and were paid like clockwork … right up until it all collapsed. Here’s how many Private Investor Club members spotted the disturbing warning signs early and avoided the blood-bath.

Ian Ippolito
6 min read


SEC charges once-popular ATM operator Prestige Investment Group of being a Ponzi-scheme and losing $400 million of investor money (and CEO Daryl F. Heller of misappropriating $185 million)
For years, enthusiastic Prestige investors couldn't pile in fast enough in and gushed about being “paid like clockwork”. But in the end, the house of cards came crashing down with investor lawsuits and jaw-dropping losses. Yet many Private Investor Club members spotted glaring red flags from the beginning and avoided the carnage completely, by walking away. Here’s how and why.

Ian Ippolito
6 min read
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