https://theinfluencemarketer.com/blog/bernie-madoff-ponzi-scheme-50-billion-four-rules/ Helping B2B Companies Build Brand Affinity Using Influencer Marketing Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://theinfluencemarketer.com/blog/bernie-madoff-ponzi-scheme-50-billion-four-rules/#comment-837 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:52:44 +0000 https://theinfluencemarketer.com/?p=7049#comment-837 “You can’t cheat an honest man.”
The best con-men share one principle: their mark has to claim pure honesty, but be willing to “skirt” the law to make big bucks. Naturally many Madoff victims never met him, nor knew exactly where their money was going; but they knew they were making money regardless of the economy, the market, Wall Street trends, the price of tea in China…whatever. The investors were not (necessarily) crooked, in the commonly-applied sense of the word, but none were worried about “technicalities”. If you had said to any of them, “Mr. Madoff’s methods might not all be purely legal”, the investor would have looked at you blankly and then said, in essence, “And you point is…?”

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