get rich quick schemes

A man who ran a defunct get-rich scheme agreed to settle a court order by paying the Federal Trade Commission $900,000 and surrendering the proceeds from the sale of his house and most of his personal property. The federal court judgment against John Stefanchik was obtained by the FTC in 2007 for...

A notorious con artist who fought for years to hold onto ill-gotten assets paid for by scamming consumers out of millions via get-rich-quick schemes has finally agreed to end his appeals and surrender his Las Vegas home, valued at more than $1 million. The settlement concludes the Federal Trade...