Quote from: sporket on March 25, 2014, 04:31:06 PM

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Not all scams are short cons, where the operator grabs the money and runs. Those are dumb scams, run by short-sighted goofballs who eventually wind up in prison.

A good scam, OTOH, is *indistinguishable from a failed business when it winds down*. It's designed that way. It takes longer, requires more planning, and the take is only a persentage of the gross money raised, but the operator has *nothing to worry about from teh law*.

Why must this be constantly repeated?

Surely if the business fails (as you seem to think it will as part of the grand "scam plan") then Danny stands to lose a lot of the $6mil that he invested too? If investors lose out then so does he. Hard to imagine someone profiting from that.

If you look hard enough you can see scams wherever you want. E.g: OMG Blockbuster went bankrupt and took everyone's membership fees! What a scam!

Also saying its Goldbergian just implies it's too complex for you to follow. I understand it fine and can see why it would work. Explain to me exactly where it falls apart and how it is, as you say, 'hodgepodge'?