kingmekus:
I wan mess abeg!

rottenegg:
Make all of una go find better work. Awoof money no be am.

...and to all those who'll soon come here to say,"MMM is an investment !" You all need to get your cranium double checked!

It's gone....deal with it.

winkmart:
Move on guys, there are a whole lot of new opportunities better than MMM.

I have close to N200,000 in MMM, though it's peanut compared to what some other people have to collect t, but I have just moved on.

Infact, even if MMM gets back, I can't join them again. I consider it a waste of time as better online investments are everywhere now.

Bj5all:
Pple trying to gain relevance from MMM matter, i was already thinking nairaland is coming back to normal but when i saw this again, i just shouted Seun please grow up and stop derailing your forum with MMM.

The front page needs more relevant updates not MMM all the time

whoyoube:
This explanation is to demonstrate, not to those who know that Ponzi schemes are fraudulent, and attempt to cash out before its inevitable collapse (leaving later participants to lose everything), but to those who actually believe such a system is sustainable. Those who say things like "if these people hadn't been so greedy", "if the media hadn't scared everyone away", "if...", "if...", "if..."

ONCE AGAIN, the intended audience of this lecture is not for those who understand the fraudulent and unsustainable nature of Ponzi schemes, but to educate those who do not.

In this very simplistic example, there are no referral bonuses, no one running away and stealing money from the system, no "media or government interference" affecting victim participant confidence.

Most Ponzi schemes pretend to invest in some odd commodity, to give a plausible reason to investors for the growth of their investments. But in reality, the only monetary input comes from new investors. For this reason, it is IMPOSSIBLE to sustain indefinitely, as there is a FINITE number of humans on this planet. Even if newborn babies were recruited into the scheme as they were being born, the exponential growth of the debt incurred by paying old investors with the investments of new investors is impossible to keep up with.