Scamming naive people who are hoping to make a quick profit is a practice that opportunists have been undertaking for thousands of years. As the times have changed, however, the scams and those perpetrating them, have evolved.
From modern-day multi-layered marketing companies to multi-million dollar carpet cleaning companies that don’t even exist, here is a quick look at some of the biggest money scams of all time, and some of the people responsible for them.