From the NY Times:
Mr. Ponzi, 65, is a retired businessman living in Watervliet, N.Y., near Albany. He has the same name as, but is not related to, the con man, who died in 1949. When he was younger, Mr. Ponzi said by phone, people often asked if he was connected to the swindler. “Then it went into a lull,” he said. “Until this idiot.”
That would be Bernard Madoff.
Poor guy