Warning: Investment Scam Artists at Work!

For the past few years, Ponzi schemes - investment frauds that involve the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors - have hit the headlines on a regular basis. Amazingly, at any one time, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating anywhere between 750 and 1,000 individuals or entities for various violations of the law.

Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists are Ripping Off America, a new book from the CFTC, tells the dramatic stories of these fraudulent schemes, their smooth-talking masterminds, and their many honest, hard-working victims, who often lose the money they've saved for their kids' college funds, needed health care expenses, or their own retirement as a result of misplaced trust in fraudsters.

Written by CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton, Ponzimonium pulls no punches in recounting these sometimes dramatic cases of fraud and victimization. The goal: to describe these illegal schemes and help potential investors avoid the grief that so many Americans have endured at the hands of investment swindlers.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY ABOUT "PONZIMONIUM":

• Read this "Ponzimonium" book review by financial publication Opalesque.


• Watch "Ponzimonium" author and CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton's interview on Fox Business.


• Read an article written by Commissioner Chilton entitled "Opinion: It's Ponzimonium Out There".

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