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Ponzi schemeBrE /ˈpɒnzi skiːm/ NAmE /ˈpɑːnzi skiːm/ noun a plan for making money that involves encouraging people to invest by offering them a high rate of interest and using their money to pay earlier investors . When there are not enough new investors , people who have recently invested lose their money 庞氏骗局，非法集资（指提供高息以吸引人们投资，将得来的钱用于偿还之前的投资者，而当没有足够的新投资者时，就会给最近的投资者造成损失）ORIGINFrom Charles Ponzi , who organized the first scheme of this kind in the US in 1919 .源自查尔斯 · 庞兹。他于 1919 年在美国首次策划了此类骗局。 |