Foreword

by Steven J. J. Weisman

If you think that you are too smart to ever be the victim of an investment scam, then this book is not for you. And I wish you luck, because that is what you are going to need in the precarious financial times we are living in. Scam artists are the only criminals we refer to as artists, and they have earned that title. No matter how knowledgeable you are, no matter how financially sophisticated you may think you are, you are a potential victim. As we learned from the Bernie Madoff scandal, intelligent and savvy people can easily fall prey to these financial predators. The only defense is education.

Bonnie Kirchner provides that education in this book that is so critically important in today’s economy. Bonnie ...

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