Ponzi / Pyramid

The travel agent paid her children's school fees with someone else's honeymoon.

Shelley Simpson sold luxury holidays that were never booked, then used the next customer's deposit to cover the last customer's lie. On May 6, a Portsmouth judge called it a dance of deception and sent her to prison for 33 months.

By Elena Ruiz · May 7
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