Financial serial killers: inside the world of Wall Street money hustlers, swindlers, and con men

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; CHAPTER ONE -- Financial Serial Killers; CHAPTER TWO -- The Little Old Lady Who Invested with Buffett and Was Fleeced by Insurance Agents; CHAPTER THREE -- The Financial Serial Killer: Charles Ponzi and the Criminal Pathology of White-Collar Thieves; CHAPTER FOUR -- Bre-X Minerals: How to Make, and Detect, Fool's Gold; INTERLUDE A -- The Investment Industry Speaks; CHAPTER FIVE -- Stockbrokers, Greed, and Laziness; CHAPTER SIX -- More Stockbrokers, Greed, and Laziness.;By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers illustrates how these perpetrators get their hooks into investors' wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios--and never let go. Readers will learn how to better protect their family's wealth and savings after reading this book. Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE -- Financial Serial Killers CHAPTER TWO -- The Little Old Lady Who Invested with Buffett and Was Fleeced by Insurance Agents CHAPTER THREE -- The Financial Serial Killer: Charles Ponzi and the Criminal Pathology of White-Collar Thieves CHAPTER FOUR -- Bre-X Minerals: How to Make, and Detect, Fool's Gold INTERLUDE A -- The Investment Industry Speaks CHAPTER FIVE -- Stockbrokers, Greed, and Laziness CHAPTER SIX -- More Stockbrokers, Greed, and Laziness. CHAPTER SEVEN -- Hedge Funds and Private Placements: Cachet and Exclusivity Can Cost YouCHAPTER EIGHT -- Securities Regulators and Their Shortcomings: Are the Regulators Protecting You? INTERLUDE B -- The Investment Industry Speaks CHAPTER NINE -- What Is an Investment Adviser and Why Are So Many Running Ponzi Schemes? CHAPTER TEN -- Mortgage Fraud: How the Mortgage Industry and Mortgage Brokers Can Rip You Off and How Promises of Investment Riches Undermine the Safety of Your Home CHAPTER ELEVEN -- Affinity Fraud, or Holy Rolling, Religious Zeal, and the Art of the Steal. INTERLUDE C -- The Investment Industry SpeaksCHAPTER TWELVE -- Wall Street: It's a Game for Insiders-and Outsiders, Like You, Should Get Advice CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- The Consequence of White-Collar Crime and How It Can Destroy Lives and Rip Families Apart CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- Web Tools and Databases to Spot Trouble Before It Starts CHAPTER FIFTEEN -- Four Outlandish Tales of the Securities Business CHAPTER SIXTEEN -- Elder Abuse and Fraud INTERLUDE D -- The Investment Industry Speaks. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN -- Tilting at Windmills: How One Investor Refused to Give Up His Fight to Track Down His Financial Serial KillerCHAPTER EIGHTEEN -- The Psychology Behind Why We Fall for Scams Epilogue A Laundry List of the Classic Warning Signs for Investors Notes Acknowledgments.