Alleged fraudster targets the deaf

There seems no end to the number of Ponzi schemes being uncovered. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced yesterday that it had charged Honolulu-based Marvin Cooper and his company Billion Coupons (BCI), with operating a fraud that involved more than 125 customers – all of whom are deaf.

There seems no end to the number of Ponzi schemes being uncovered. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced yesterday that it had charged Honolulu-based Marvin Cooper and his company Billion Coupons (BCI), with operating a fraud that involved more than 125 customers – all of whom are deaf.

The CFTC alleges that since at least September 2007, Cooper and BCI solicited approximately $4.4 million from more than 125 deaf American and Japanese individuals supposedly to trade FX.

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