Her vulnerability during a period of illness that drew her into the investment scheme, to enjoying the idea of the potential reward and planning how to spend the money, to the denial of thoughts of it being a scam and then onto the realisation that things weren’t quite as first imagined and maybe, just maybe they had lost all their savings and investment.

In the 1990s, Erin Brockovich showed what a difference one smart, angry woman can make in a world that marginalized her. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life. Thirteen “ritual sites” were discovered by residents that prompted an investigation by police from the Danish mainland. While the initial hysteria died down, the mystery continued as coins similar to those discovered at Bath Abbey started to appear at churches and museums in Denmark.Unlike Madoff or Enron, who relieved the world’s wealthiest investors of their cash, the exploiting genius of the OneCoin scam was targeting the poorest people in the world, the “unbanked”—those who struggled to live or get mainstream banking support. The date on the coins refers to an incident which took place on the island of Anholt, which lies between Denmark and Sweden, in May 1973. Some were accompanied by letters claiming to be from a satanic high priestess named Alice Mandragora,” explained Wessex Archaeology, noting that letters or short stories about the “Anholt cult” were also found in Køge city museum and even behind paintings at Copenhagen police headquarters. For instance, a detailed reliving of various relationships does not set up the rest of the book in any significant way.

The story was picked up by the Danish national media and salacious stories of satanic cults on Anholt abounded. You follow Jen through her elation at joining the OneCoin family and becoming an early investor in the “new BitCoin”, her confusion and anger when the whole system is challenged by a cryptocurrency expert, and the devastating realisation that her money was gone. An unassuming Scottish grandmother takes down a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme in this exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. In each episode you'll follow one person's journey, getting to listen in on their coaching sessions with Selina and following them as she sends them off on a task to try out a new career idea. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions.

Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. OneCoin targeted “unbanked” and “underbanked” populations, and the vast majority of victims were unable to fight back when they lost everything. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Some readers may get lost in the wave of characters that weave through the labyrinth of Ignatova’s criminal network.When McAdam, a middle-aged Scottish woman with a chronic illness, realized that she had not only invested her meager inheritance in a scam but also encouraged her friends and family to do the same, she fought back. In 2013, the Danish newspaper Politiken revealed that the prank was the brainchild of Knud Langkow, an office clerk at the National Gallery of Denmark who died in 2004 at the age of 73. Two “devil coins” that were hidden in Scandinavian churches as part of an elaborate hoax in the 1970s have been discovered in the unlikely setting of Bath Abbey.

New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter. However, what no one had expected to find were two coins, found within days of each other, depicting a devil and bearing the legend CIVITAS DIABOLI on one side and, on the reverse, 13 MAJ ANHOLT 1973. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.The date on the coins refers to an episode that took place on the island of Anholt, between Denmark and Sweden, in May 1973. Some were accompanied by letters claiming to be from a satanic high priestess named Alice Mandragora (a name which appears on some coin designs alongside the wonderfully named Karl Klunck and Dunk Wokgnal).