The Ponzi’s scheme of Bordeaux Cellars

The Ponzi scheme always seems to be the best way to set up a scam. Whether it’s treasury bonds, bitcoins, or bottles of wine, the method invented by Charles Ponzi almost a century ago is always the most widely used by scammers. Look at what Bernie Maddoff did in the early 2000s.

It is a method that works, and initially the first customers can make some money. At some point they decide to get out and there is no more money, no more bonds, no more bitcoins or no more bottles of wine. The scheme is simple, you take money from new investors and use it to pay dividends…