To enter the in the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference Fraud Museum Giveaway for your chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card, answer the below questions based on the story about Charles Ponzi posted on Fraud Conference News and in the Fraud Museum exhibit in the Exhibit Hall.

The game begins, Sunday, July 12, and will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, July 14. Only conference attendees are eligible to participate. Please read the official rules before submitting your entry. The winner will be notified via email.

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* 1. What crime landed Charles Ponzi in a Canadian prison years before he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, to run his investment scheme?

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* 2. Charles Ponzi’s investment scheme involved what type of coupon that let people prepay return postage from another country?

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* 3. Charles Ponzi’s publicist revealed to the Boston Post that Ponzi was insolvent and didn’t have the money to pay people who had invested in his scheme. The publicist would later be honored posthumously with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Sentinel Award in 2011. Who was the publicist?

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* 4. Charles Ponzi wasn’t the first fraudster to concoct an investment scheme in which early investors are paid with funds collected from new investors. In 1899, William Franklin Miller perpetrated a similar scheme in Brooklyn, New York, in which he stole $80,000 from investors. What did he tell them he had secret knowledge of to get them to invest?

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* 5. How many counts of mail fraud was Charles Ponzi charged with in August 1920?

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* 6. What was the cryptocurrency scheme that stole $2.4 billion from investors?

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* 7. Please enter your email address that matches the email used to register for the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.

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