{"id":18897,"date":"2012-01-15T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/avoid-becoming-a-victim-of-a-ponzi-scheme-daniel-wardlaw\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:00:33","slug":"avoid-becoming-a-victim-of-a-ponzi-scheme-daniel-wardlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/avoid-becoming-a-victim-of-a-ponzi-scheme-daniel-wardlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid becoming a victim of a ponzi scheme | Daniel Wardlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The following are tips from Daniel Wardlaw, special agent and public information officer IRS\u00a0Criminal Investigation to help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/137347143.html\" target=\"_blank\">avoid being victimized by a ponzi scheme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss investment ideas with an unbiased third party such as an attorney; an accountant; or a licensed financial advisor<\/li>\n<li>The historical average stock market returns are around 8 to 12 percent a year.\u00a0  Investments which claim to be able to exceed these amounts (for example  2 percent a month or 300 percent a year, etc.) should be viewed very skeptically.\u00a0 If  it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t trust someone with your money (whether for investment or for  loan) just because you know them or because they have an impressive or  \u201csafe\u201d sounding title<\/li>\n<li>Avoid secretive investments where you have difficulty in determining how they work or when you will get your money back<\/li>\n<li>Check out official websites such as for the SEC, the FBI or the  Washington Attorney General\u2019s Consumer Protection Division to see if the  investment being offered has characteristics of a scam<\/li>\n<li>A good summary of ponzi schemes and other red flags can be found at<a href=\"http:\/\/investor.gov\/investing-basics\/avoiding-fraud\/types-fraud\/ponzi-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/investor.gov\/investing-basics\/avoiding-fraud\/types-fraud\/ponzi-scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are tips from Daniel Wardlaw, special agent and public information officer IRS Criminal Investigation to help avoid being victimized by a ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18897"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}