I have shocking news, peeps!
The rumors are too widespread to be ignored. It seems that Discardedporkrind has been running a classic Ponzi scheme. The word is that thousands of people have been bilked, including some Shalampaxians, but mostly foreigners.
If the claims are to be believed, and there is every reason to believe that they should be, Discardedporkrind has taken in roughly $100 million, over and above the meager funds he paid out to keep early “investors” interested.
Adding insult to injury, there is talk that he used his position as CEO of one of Shalampax’s leading spam firms to send out hundreds of millions of spam emails promoting his scheme, without compensating his company for those services. The other shareholders will, no doubt, be livid as a result of not being cut in on the scam.
As best I can tell, Discardedporkrind has gone into seclusion in his apartment. He is apparently too embarrassed to show his face anywhere in Shalampax.
“It’s understandable,” said one of his friends, who spoke with me only on the condition of anonymity. “Now that Discardedporkrind’s scheme has been discovered, his shame knows no bounds.”
She continued, “he is too mortified to look any of his family or friends in the eye. Wouldn’t you be? Over the course of history, various Shalampaxians have run more than 400 Ponzi schemes in total. Not one of those schemes has taken in less than $250 million and a number have broken the $1 billion mark.
“Discardedporkrind has proven himself to be a complete and utter failure. I wouldn’t want to show my face anywhere either if I were him. I’m just worried that he might do something foolish, like decide to go on living. I hope I’d have the good sense to end it all if the best I could eke out of a Ponzi scheme was a lousy $100 million.”
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