I Ran a Nightclub Ponzi Scheme at 19 | Fakes, Frauds & Scammers
November 23, 2021
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as posted by the channelAt just 19, Ian Bick became the owner of a nightclub and ran raves featuring some of the world's biggest acts. But by 21, he was facing prison for defrauding his investors out of nearly half a million dollars.
It turns out, instead of investing the money of friends and family, he was using it to pay off bad debts for previous failed ventures, and funding his own high-end lifestyle of holidays, limos, and designer clothes. That is, until the FBI turned up at his home in the dead of night, and everything began to unravel.
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