According to the  data of Securities Exchange Commission on Ponzi schemes, US investors have lost nearly $441 Million against $1488 million in 2012 to Ponzi schemes in USA. Here are the top 8 ponzi schemes according to the amount quantified by Securities Exchange Commission website. The losses have reduced as compared to the losses in the year 2012.
| Name of Ponzi Player | Loss in Million Dollars | Summary of the Scheme | Destination |
| Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas | 300 | Five former executives were charged with defrauding investors into believing they were funding the development of five-star destination resorts in Florida and Las Vegas when they were actually buying into a $300 million Ponzi scheme. | Florida |
| Trendon T. Shavers | 60 | Trendon and his company Bitcoin Savings and Trust {BTCST} were charged with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin | Texas |
| Walter Ng, Kelly Ng, and Bruce Horwitz | 39 | Bay Area real estate fund managers were charged with operating a Ponzi-like scheme in which they solicited and secretly used assets of a new real estate fund to make payouts to investors in an older, rapidly collapsing fund. | Bay Area |
| Mark Morrow and Detroit Memorial Partners | 23 | Mark and his company issued approximately $19 million in fraudulent promissory notes and selling $4.5 million in equity interests through an investment advisory company that operated as a massive Ponzi scheme. | Cincinati |
| Duncan MacDonald and Gloria Solomon | 10 | Duncan and Gloria, two executives at a medical insurance company were charged with operating a $10 million Ponzi scheme that victimized at least 80 investors by falsely promoting their start-up venture as a thriving business. | Dallas |
| John K. Marcum – | 6 | John Marcum falsely touted himself as a successful trader and asset manager to raise more than $6 million from investors. He squandered the money on personal luxuries and other ventures such as a reality TV show, and continued soliciting money from new investors to pay earlier investors’ redemption requests. | Indiana |
| Alvin R. Brown and First Choice Investment | 3 | The scheme was shut down that targeted seniors, including an elderly investor suffering from a stroke and dementia, by falsely promising high profits from commercial and residential rental properties in California and other Western states. | California |
Author: Mayur Joshi
