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Chisels, swindles and scams: let the investor beware
The world’s oldest investment fraud may not date back to the world’s first investment, but it probably followed close behind. Since then, scams have evolved into infinite forms, from simple chiseling (as when brokers “churn” stock sales to increase their ttottimissions) to sophisticated confidence schemes by con artists. Advance fee swindles
In the most basic advance fee swindle, the con artist sells the victim an “investment,” asks for payment up front, and then disappears with the
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