45,376 Years for a Virtual Farm: The Çiftlik Bank Brothers
Imagine investing your life savings in a digital farm where virtual cows and chickens promised real money. Tens of thousands of people did exactly that—until the payments stopped and the founders vanished.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson unravels the rise and collapse of Çiftlik Bank (Farm Bank), the massive online Ponzi scheme that took in more than $130 million from over 130,000 investors. At the center of it all were two brothers: Mehmet Aydın, the young entrepreneur known as “Tosuncuk,” and his older brother Fatih Aydın.
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