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Noun: Ponzi scheme
  1. A fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned

Derived forms: Ponzi schemes

Type of: cozenage [archaic], rort [Austral, informal], scam [informal]

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