how was the zzzz best fraud discovered 
minkow was visited by his past when a homemaker who was overcharged just a few hundred dollars by minkow tracked down a few others who minkow had defrauded when the homemaker located the others she passed her findings onto the los angeles times the newspaper then ran a story exposing minkow s relatively minor fraud this caused a domino effect and zzzz best was quickly outed as a ponzi scheme 