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One of the oddest Ponzi schemes is the Yellow Chen Tin AXI group, which sold investment kits for ant farming. Over a million investors were promised substantial returns from breeding Black Mountain ants, endorsed by various Chinese celebrities. Once exposed, the investors realized they were part of a massive fraud that raked in approximately 1.2 billion dollars.
2. Emu Farming (India)
Another outlandish scheme was run by MS Guru with Suzy Emu Farms in India, where investors were promised lucrative returns from raising emus. Investors were told that emu meat and oil were highly valuable. However, when the reality revealed that these products were not marketable, the scheme collapsed, leaving thousands of investors in the lurch and hundreds of emus abandoned.