The Greatest Fraud Of All Times

in #money6 years ago (edited)

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“Over US$8 Million Lost by 2,600 Investors in South Korea’s ‘Treasure Ship’ ICO” – wrote CCN.com yesterday, and other sources. “According to South Korean police, it has been tentatively concluded that about 2,600 people invested around 9 billion won or slightly over US$8 million in Shinil Group which claimed to have discovered a shipwreck containing gold worth US$130 billion” – continued.

Invisible investments

It’s a nice example of smart frauds: the object, the ship can’t be viewed, evidence, like photos, can be falsified easily, and the word “gold treasure” is a buzzword since several thousand years. (Even Bitcoin couldn’t delete it from the dreams of the people.) Reuters wrote middle July that the wreck was “disputed” by a government-run institute, and that warships are the property of their original governments:

“A war vessel is the territory of the state whose flag it bears regardless of the waters it is in. This status does not change even after it sinks” – told a Russian expert to Reuters.

Tell me a huge lie

But all this is nothing new. Some scientists claim we have anatomically the same brain as in the Neolithic era, we feel good or bad about the same things and have the same vulnerabilities as earlier. For example greed, treasures and “too-nice-to-be-true” stories. And some people are using this against us, offering sweet dreams to take our money. (I wrote about earlier: Beware Of People Promising Too Much)

This story with the shipwreck is a relatively tiny one. In possibly the greatest, most shameless and arrogant, at the same time a very tragic and deadly fraud of all times, somebody invented a whole country. A non-existing country, of course.

More than a hundred dead

Almost 200 years ago, a Scottish soldier, adventurer, officer of the British Army, general Gregor MacGregor invented “Poyais”, a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as “Cazique”. (Something like a ruler or governor.)

Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle; more than half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history. (Source: Wikipedia)

Preserving his honour

He even printed money of this fictional country, see on the picture. (Also from Wikipedia.) The losses investors and settlers suffered can reach the billion-dollar category in today’s terms. But he was never convicted and “he died in Caracas in 1845, aged 58, and was buried with full military honours in Caracas Cathedral”.

Must have a Plan B

It doesn’t matter if printed bonds, fiat money, stock markets, dotkom-bubble garbage, ICO-s or shitcoins, there will be always frauds because there are always credulous and greedy people. Searching for the way to get rich, easily and quick. What you can do is learn, learn, think, analyse your investments, be healthily suspicious and diversify your money.

Missing a good investment is a smaller problem than lose all your money, right?

So, don’t believe in every luring opportunity, if something is to nice to be true, most likely it isn’t. Never put it all in the same investment, it doesn’t matter if it’s Bitcoin, Gold, Ether, Steem, Apple stocks, or US Treasury bills. You must have a Plan B.

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This is some real Bullshit that CNN is using to scare the masses away from investing in this realm.

Scam happens in every realms, investment forms, you have to explain how to distinguish fraud from real business. But reporter can't ignore stories of this type. Imagine nobody writes anything about Bernie Madoff. What would you say abut the press? The press was bought by the finance World?

without this, reporter got nothing to write about.

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this fraud is huge , but the mastermind behing this should be hold responsible for peoples money , let not this happen again.

Bernie Madoff stole more...

This has happened over the years in different stories. Everyone wants always to be part of the "discovery" of a new treasure that will make them rich or richer. There is another story (around the 90s) of the company Bre-X that discover a huge reserve of gold in a land that nobody thought to get into but at the end it was all lie (there is a film based on this story named "Gold").

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The private "Federal" Reserve has stolen $25,000 Trillion from an Indonesian Royal!! Trump is part of this scam! Trump is an agent of the banking cartel!

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This is the type of scam you'd think of when you're a kid- pretend you've found some pirate treasure lol. There are scams in any space at all, people just need to learn to be smarter with their money! and I think many in the space are beginning to do so.

I think this is not that really good.

Very interesting

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