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The greedy and the gullible

I HAVE had long, and sometimes heated, conversations with friends over their decision to participate in the Ponzi-driven frenzy that Jamaica has recently experienced. The first time I heard about one of these schemes promising super returns on investment, my antennae went up.

I was taken back to the 1980s when the pyramid scheme raged. At the workplace people who never said 'good day' were soliciting new investors for the scheme. It became clear, before too long, that a simple formula was being pursued - promise high returns to recruits and use their money to pay previous investors.

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When the stream of investors dried up, the scheme collapsed. Many gullible people got caught, and ...

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