Devil’s Coin is the memoir of Jennifer McAdam, a woman with an extraordinary story after she was conned out of her inheritance and lifesavings by the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. After Jen’s father died, she received some inheritance money and wanted to invest it into her family’s future. The date on the coins refers to an episode that took place on the island of Anholt, between Denmark and Sweden, in May 1973. Wessex Archaeology is working below Bath Abbey recording the foundations and the earlier archaeology including Saxon burials and Romano-British remains.

Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters. 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. Ruja Ignatova, [McAdam] didn't realize she was giving her money to one of the world's most sinister scams. 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. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.

The victims definitely demonstrate their strengths and determination to expose and dismantle fraudulent financial schemes. Ruja Ignatova, the author didn’t realize she was giving her money to one of the world’s most sinister scams. However, even without knowledge of cryptocurrency or OneCoin, it’s easy to empathize with the author. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Publishers Weekly (starred review)The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter who took on the creators of the world’s biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict themA teenage mother, today a young grandmother, Jen McAdam was a victim of the OneCoin global cryptocurrency fraud, which stole tens of billions of dollars from ordinary people around the world.

She attended the online webinars and immediately she was hooked on the glamour, the lavish marketing, and mesmerised by Ruja Ignatova. Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. The letter, which was dated 1918 and contained a woman’s message to her future children, was found behind a radiator by the priest’s daughter and the news story was about how she had kept the letter and photograph down the years and wanted to find out who the woman was. Jen is a modern Erin Brokovich, and this is a true David and Goliath story, to give us all a message of hope about the power we as individuals can have, even when things seem hopeless. In the 1990s, Erin Brockovich showed what a difference one smart, angry woman can make in a world that marginalized her.In this hybrid of memoir and vigilante origin story, McAdam clearly shows how she fell into OneCoin’s trap, but she dedicates most of the text to her journey of retribution. Publishers Weekly (starred review) The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter who took on the creators of the world’s biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict them The OneCoin global cryptocurrency fraud stole tens of billions of dollars from ordinary people around the world.

In response, McAdam founded online support groups for other victims and cooperated with London police and the FBI to track down the company’s founder, Ruja Ignatova, and expose OneCoin’s fraudulent practices. The author begins and ends the book with an overflow of emotion, while the middle concentrates on the scrupulous details of the con. 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.This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety. 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. A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023* "[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. The story follows how McAdam becomes involved in what was a giant Ponzi scheme and multi-level marketing (MLM) scam all rolled up in one! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

In my opinion, this book serves as a reminder because it sheds light on the widespread financial fraud in the cryptocurrency sphere, as well as the need for stricter regulations and accountability in the industry. Wanting to secure a future for her son and grandchildren, she invested the money with OneCoin, believing the company’s pitch—buttressed by flashy videos and marketing materials—that the cryptocurrency’s value (reportedly quintuple that of the dollar) would turn her inheritance into a life-changing windfall. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.

Nonetheless, there is a pattern of coins appearing at vacation destinations, so it's possible that Langkow or one of his associates placed the coin during a trip to the historic Bath Abbey, Wessex Archaeology told Fox News. This is a true David-and-Goliath story to give us all a message of hope about the power we as individuals can have, even when things seem hopeless. I have no doubt we will see Ignatova behind bars where she belongs or proof that the Mafia have disposed of her and she holds too much information and names on the wider corruption that this Ponzi Sceme is linked to!