I invested 650,000 rupees and I was supposed to get my first payment today, a dazed victim Mohammed Imran said.
I am not in a mood to talk anymore.
The company which claimed to offer internet based data entry work for a monthly payment first asked people who joined the scheme, to make a deposit of 6,500 rupees to purchase what was called a ˜slot’.
After 45 days the firm promised to make a payment of 4,500 rupees every month, provided some data was entered into a website.
The operators claimed it was a BPO operation. The firm had offices in several locations including Mount Lavinia.
Two Indian nationals who were king pins of the scheme are now believed to have fled the country.
A Ponzi is a variation of a pyramid scam where the people who joined first is rewarded with the money taken from th