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 You
CHAPTER 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 Speaks
CHAPTER 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 Killer
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Psychology Behind Why We Fall for Scams
Epilogue
A Laundry List of the Classic Warning Signs for Investors
Notes
Acknowledgments