The $400 Million Ponzi Scheme That Suckered San Diego

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Publicado 2022-04-11
Gina Champion-Cain was a pillar of the San Diego business community. She also happened to be running one of the largest Ponzi schemes of all time.

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  • @WallyTony
    I was a waiter and she talked down to me like I was trash. Wish I knew she was a theif that whole time.
  • @jillian7636
    “I’m a strong member of this community” she’s talking about her role in a prison like she’s at an investor’s luncheon or a Rotary Club meeting! Once a con, always a con! Lol
  • @247VillainStatus
    15 years is a slap on the wrist for a 400 million dollar fraud.
  • @Donthaveacowbra
    Just remember everyone, if you steal peoples money. Just make sure they're poor 🙄
  • This happened to my mom. She ended up getting scammed out of her money by some fraud investment guy. Since she wrote down when they met and how much money he gave her back in payments, only because she insisted, he was prosecuted because of her testimony in court.
  • @iankamau222
    “huge personality.. very magnetic.. very outgoing” ..none of this has to do with character or integrity or ethics
  • @StarCrusher.
    These type of scams always rely on one thing: the greed of the people being scammed clouding their judgement.
  • @BeyondEcstasy
    "Gina is thought to be the most prolific female ponzi schemer in history." You go girlboss, show em it's not only men who can steal money from investors.
  • So happy she’s well taken care of in jail…but the story that is missing here is the hundreds of employees that worked in the corporate office (like myself) that were told lies, “business as usual”, and that “there’s nothing to worry about” as they were getting their computers stripped for investigation and laid off one by one without receiving final paychecks or PTO payouts. I’ll continue to be on the lookout for my deserved earnings and maybe a simple apology.
  • Did she say that she's a strong member of the prison community and is teaching classes. Teaching classes on what?.... how to scam people and be a better thief and robber!!!!
  • @yogitam2372
    One thing I see as I get older. The scams are still the same but every generation, there is a new person like this one who has so much charisma that they will scam you to believing them. Be wise everyone, there is always a scam out there as there is always a victim who will fall for it. Why? Greed! If you think you found an easy way to make money, you will fall for it.
  • @MrSupergibs
    What's crazy is that these types of people who scam are so clever because they know how to interact with people to develop trust...sounds like she missed her calling as a politician 😂😭🙈
  • @johndefalque5061
    A 15% monthly retunr-that's insane-a huge red flag! Even annually that's very high.
  • @terryjones9784
    "every company I looked at, I was like, how do you get your money, how do you operate this business" great questions to ask!
  • @88mphDrBrown
    She's so heartless and delusional she actually said "I believed I was going to take the company public and pay all of these people back"... and then what Gina? What was the company going to do then? Refund all the old investors, publicly announce it's a ponzi scheme, and tank the stock? GTFOH
  • @ML-hs3ld
    Being a "strong member of this (prison) community" is a rather dubious distinction.
  • It's IMPOSSIBLE to guarantee returns of certain amounts of money. That's it. There shouldn't be any doubt once you hear that that you're dealing with a scam.
  • @jdrancho1864
    Cain is the very visible tip of the iceberg. She would not have been able to do what she did had the people at Chicago Title done their jobs in a way they were supposed to. Putting Cain and her story front and center is much sexier than reading prepared statements from CT's corporate legal team. But claiming, as the charging document says, they were "mislead" is letting them off the hook way too easily. They had a duty of care and a fiduciary duty that is at the very heart of the service that they purport to provide that they completely failed to meet. None of that exonerates Cain, of course. But as far as making these investors whole is concerned, CT had better do the right thing and pay up. And after that, put in place better controls and safeguards on their own employees.
  • If people want to borrow money from you, send them to a bank. If banks won't lend those types money, something's wrong.