1.   For decades, Steve Michaels charmed and coaxed his victims out of their money by selling them bogus investments over the phone.

2.   Increased interest in stock ownership has combined, McLucas said, with the growth of the Internet as a potential haven for bogus investment offers.

3.   Executives of some companies that used fresh loans from bailed-out banks were found to have diverted millions of dollars overseas in bogus investment, the agency said.

4.   Federal prosecutor Jerry Sanford pointed to the NFL players who testified that Black used his position as their agent to steal millions from them through bogus investments.

5.   Sanford pointed to the NFL players who testified that Black used his position as their agent to steal millions from them through bogus investments.

6.   That pocketed money was found to have been hidden in real estate, bonds, bogus overseas investment and other forms of embezzlement, it said.

7.   The money disappeared after a senior official was tricked into joining a bogus investment scheme.

8.   A series of violent demonstrations has swept Albania in recent days as protestors vented their anger over the collapse of a number of bogus investment schemes.

9.   Albania descended into chaos after protests over the collapse of bogus investment schemes boiled over into a full-blown rebellion.

10.   Albania descended into chaos earlier this year after protests over the collapse of bogus investment schemes boiled over into a full-blown rebellion.